Student wins Google contest
FORT PAYNE, Ala. – Ansley Grider, an eighth-grade student at Fort Payne Middle School, has been named Alabama’s statewide winner in the annual Doodle 4 Google contest.
Ansley, whose drawing of the search for a cancer cure bested entries from more than 100,000 Alabama schoolchildren, will compete against 49 other state winners, including Tennessee’s Annaliese Tester, a third-grader from Dayton City School, for the chance to see her artwork displayed on Google’s home page and to receive a $30,000 college scholarship.
The winning student’s school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education grant for the establishment and improvement of a computer center or technology program.
Technical colleges to raise tuition
ATLANTA – The group that oversees Georgia’s technical colleges has approved increasing tuition beginning in the fall of 2014.
Officials said the Technical College System of Georgia voted unanimously to raise tuition at the state’s technical colleges by $4 per credit hour. Officials said students at the state’s 24 technical colleges now will pay $89 per credit hour for standard programs, and average tuition for a full 15-hour course load this fall will be $1,335, plus books and fees.