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Educators from high schools in six counties gathered at Central Carolina Community College’s Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center Nov. 14 to learn about opportunities for their students and graduates at the college. The Information and Planning Conference, put on by the college annually for more than 30 years, provides information and hands-on experience with selected programs. The 2008 event covered Bioprocessing, Biofuels, Latent Evidence, and Learn and Earn/University Transfer. In the Latent Evidence workshop, the educators learned how students are trained to work with blood evidence from a crime scene. Doing experiments with dried blood samples are (from left) Norma Boone, principal of Jordan Matthews High School; Amy Salter, assistant principal of Southern Lee High School; Sharon Mercer, career development coordinator at Northwood High School; and Thomas Harvley-Felder, principal of East Lee Middle School.

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Educators from high schools in six counties gathered at Central Carolina Community College’s Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center Nov. 14 to learn about opportunities for their students and graduates at the college. The Information and Planning Conference, put on by the college annually for more than 30 years, provides information and hands-on experience with selected programs. The 2008 event covered Bioprocessing, Biofuels, Latent Evidence, and Learn and Earn/University Transfer. In the Bioprocessing workshop, Denise Riley (right), a counselor at Lee County High School, is impressed as Robert Powell, chairman of the college’s Public Services Department, shows a simple method for collecting a sample of her DNA. The method consists of rinsing the mouth with salt water and adding liquid soap and isopropyl alcohol to the solution to cause tiny strings of DNA to rise to the surface. 

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Educators from high schools in six counties gathered at Central Carolina Community College’s Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center Nov. 14 to learn about opportunities for their students and graduates at the college. The Information and Planning Conference, put on by the college annually for more than 30 years, provides information and hands-on experience with selected programs. The 2008 event covered Bioprocessing, Biofuels, Latent Evidence, and Learn and Earn/University Transfer. In the Latent Evidence workshop, educators learned how the college’s program trains students to study evidence found at crime scenes, including fingerprints. Analyzing fingerprints on a page are (from left) Sylvia Tart, a counselor at Triton High School; Janet Caddell, college advisor/scholarship coordinator at Union Pines High School; and Stanley Price, assistant principal at Overhills High School.