Businesses team up to build career center at Southern High

By ELISABETH HULETTE, Staff Writer

Published 12/14/08

Students who walk into Southern High School soon will be greeted with a new Career and College Center - a coffee and computer-filled haven where they can research life after high school and find scholarships to pay for it.

J. Henson — The Capital Southern High School art teacher Michael Bell talks with senior student Michael Mastroberti, 17, Friday about his career and college choices after graduation. Southern just received approval to start building a new Career and College Center to help students like Michael sort through their post-graduation options and find scholarships.

"It will be the heart of the school," said Marilyn Harmon, signature program facilitator at Southern.

The high school got approval last month from the county Board of Education to start construction on the $16,550 center, which members of Southern's Business Advisory Board have been planning for five years. They hope to open it in the spring.

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Coffee??? - December 15, 2008

Why coffee? Do high schoolers need coffee? Is this available and even encouraged at other high schools? Why does the reporter not even question anyone about why the school thought this was necessary? Did a coffee company invest? Why does it need to look like a Starbucks? Read more about similar local issues at Capital Punishment, the leading local news blog.

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