2008 Woodie Awards
Last week, he made history as the first African-American to receive a presidential nomination. This week, Barack Obama is touring the country to talk about the economy with regular citizens in his two-week "Change That Works for You" tour. Despite pro-McCain protestors outside, Obama kicked off the tour on Monday at the Exposition Center on the North Carolina Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
ECU is getting ready to gear up for the 22nd Annual Legislation School for Youth Leadership Development this week. According to Tarrick Cox, director of the Legislative Leadership Development program and a former student of the institution, this is a program that first took place in 1989.
Dr. Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College system, will be the guest speaker at the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce's luncheon series titled "Power '08." Ralls will present a speech titled "Facing the Brutal Facts: The 3 Rs in Education.
On May 17, ECU's North Carolina-Mathematics and Science Education Network (NC-MSEN) Pre-College students joined several hundred other students in Raleigh to race alternative-fuel vehicles they constructed for the 13th Annual Electric Vehicle challenge. Two students representing ECU, Erin Sawyer from Creswell School in Washington County and Essence Wagstaff from Greenwood Middle School in Wayne County won second place for technical innovation, bringing home a trophy for ECU's program.