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Congratulations to our middle and high school regional science fair winners! Students from across the district earned top honors in multiple categories in the Regional Science Fair held on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Watauga High School in Boone. The students will advance to the state competition at NC State University in Raleigh on March 21.

Burke County Public Schools Archery Programs were well represented last weekend at the National Archery in the Schools Program NC State Bullseye Tournament in Winston-Salem as 16 schools at the elementary, middle and high school levels competed in team and individual challenges. East Burke High School took first place overall in high school team competition. In individual competitions, first place champs were East Burke High School’s Luke D. for high school boys and Icard Elementary School’s Bailey B. for elementary school girls. The next step for many of our top archers is Nationals later this spring in Kentucky.

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:

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,

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.

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.