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The assignment: create a poster showing what a healthy heart looks like. These three Burke County Public Schools fourth graders didn’t just understand the assignment, they nailed it, earning top honors in the annual American Heart Association and UNC Health Blue Ridge Healthy HeART Art Contest:
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An eighth-grade student from East Burke Middle School has been named the Middle Division winner in the North Carolina Art Education Association's Youth Art Month Flag Design contest,
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From testing whether music can influence living things to measuring the impact of natural disasters, curious young scientists in Burke County Public Schools put the scientific method to the test, conducted experiments on probing questions and displayed their findings on colorful tri-fold boards. Their work culminated in the annual Burke County secondary education science fair and awards on Tuesday evening at Liberty Middle School. In all, 33 students completed 21 projects with 1st- and 2nd-place winners advancing to a regional science fair Feb. 7.
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In a joint effort with the Burke County Board of Commissioners, Burke County Public Schools received a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services to purchase walk-through metal detectors for high school and middle school athletic events.
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Prose, poetry, notable speeches and original oratory echoed through the halls of the Old Rock School in Valdese throughout the day Thursday as elementary and middle school students overcame nerves and faced most people’s biggest fear: public speaking. Burke County Public Schools held its annual speech contests as students from across the district recited nearly 80 speeches.
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Three Burke County Public Schools students will soon be the first graduates of the Navigate Internship Program in the district. The culinary internship, a partnership with Chartwells K12 and Navigate, gives students interested in food service and hospitality real-world experience by working in BCPS cafeterias preparing meals, serving lunch and learning about inventory in K-12 kitchens.
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This is known as a Dual Language 50/50 program; students learn from the Spanish teacher for half of the day and then switch classes and go to the English teacher for the other half of the day.
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