GASTONIA — Connie Okonkwo, an eighth-grader at St. Michael School, is attending the Junior Beta Summer Leadership Conference free of charge – thanks to one of two scholarships from the Junior National Beta’s Alumni Association.
At the five-day camp in Greeneville, Tenn., this July, Okonkwo and other Junior Beta Club members will experience hands-on, adventure-filled activities that incorporate leadership skills, from canoeing and archery to using creative problem-solving techniques for collaboration.
The National Beta Club is an independent, non-profit youth organization that promotes academic achievement, character, service and leadership in students in elementary and high schools. Junior Beta Club members are in grades 4-8.
— Photo provided by St. Michael School
GASTONIA — Benedict Imparato, a seventh-grader at St. Michael School, shows the medal he brought home from the N.C.
Student Academy of Science’s recent annual science fair.
He won third place in middle school biology with his experiment on how sunlight affects the speed at which a Venus fly trap closes.
Previously, “Watch Out for That Trap: Timing Venus Flytraps Exposed to Different Amounts of Light” won second place at the St. Michael School Science Fair, then took first place in the junior biological sciences category at the Regional Science Fair at UNC-Charlotte.
— Photo provided by St. Michael School