At Magnet Schools, Summer Is Time for Learning

What did you do this summer?

Some students and teachers at magnet schools have interesting answers to that question.

They learned Italian and took part in an opera.

They filled a vial with their own DNA sample.

They learned programming languages and built robots.

Several magnet schools opened their doors this summer to host summer camps for students from throughout Forsyth County.

"I think the students would have stayed all summer long if we had let them," said Tamara Greenwood, the technologist at Paisley IB Magnet School, which hosted three robotics camps.

Atkins Academic and Technology High School hosted 19 rising eighth-graders in a program that explored biotechnology and entrepreneurship. Students worked in the Atkins labs to make cheese, grow fluorescent green bacteria, and do DNA fingerprinting. They also took field trips to biotechnology and nanotechnology labs.

"The students came here and it was the first high school some of them had been to and they were quite wowed," said Terry Howerton, academic coordinator for the School of Biotechnology at Atkins.

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