by Angela Courtney | Jul 25, 2017 | Community, News, News Archive
Rising seventh grade girls from Chicot and Desha counties recently experienced architecture first hand, flipping the McGehee Train Depot into a makerspace during the Alex Foundation’s 2017 DIY (do-it-yourself) Architecture and Design Summer Camp. The week-long summer...
by Angela Courtney | Sep 6, 2016 | Education
The Alex Foundation is partnering with Drury University Hammons School of Architecture professors, Nancy Chikaraishi and Marshall Arne, to bring McGehee students ‘STE+AM’ on October 5-7 2016 as part of World Architecture Day. STE+AM (Science, Technology,...
by Angela Courtney | Aug 1, 2016 | News, News Archive
Eighteen Chicot County sixth and seventh graders were introduced to the world of architecture and design through hands-on activities at a recent architecture summer camp organized by the Alex Foundation and the J. Austin White Cultural Center in Eudora. The campers...
by Angela Courtney | Mar 7, 2016 | Opinions
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...
by Angela Courtney | Feb 1, 2016 | Education, News, News Archive
When Kristi Ridgell took a job as the district’s elementary school principal two years ago, she walked into many responsibilities, giving multi-tasking a new meaning. She is the district superintendent, elementary school principal, pre-kindergarten...
