Phillipsburg student to attend Boy's State this summer.
American Legion Post 528, in White Township, selected two Warren County Vo-Tech students to attend Boy's State this summer. Kevin Villatoro, of Phillipsburg, was the candidate. At the event, his peers elected Villatoro sergeant-at -arms.
Washington Post 103 sponsored the alternate delegate, Alex Bloom.
Both were presented American Legion Good Citizenship Citations.
WCCC offering dialysis technician training
Warren County Community College is offering a dialysis technician program to equip students with necessary knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of a dialysis technician including operating a kidney dialysis machine. The course will be held at the Phillipsburg Education Center 6 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Tuesday, Oct. 19 and ending Dec. 9. Tuition is $999 and includes all books and materials. Funding is available through the Health Professions Opportunity Grant for those that are eligible.
Grant will fund science fair project developement
Jessica Donahue, a seventh-grade science teacher at Harrison-Morton Middle School, has secured a $500 grant from the American Chemical Society' Science Coaches program. The grant will furnish her classroom with supplies to help students develop science fair projects under the mentorship of Frank K. Schweighardt, Ph.D. - a retired chemist with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., and former chairman of the Da Vinci Science Center's Board of Trustees.
The Da Vinci Science Center is the founding and managing partner of the STEM Valley Mentoring Coalition.