Ruby “Rue” Rambo-Mohr and Blake Thayer pose together in Morganton this past July.
Local students Rue Rambo-Mohr and Blake Thayer this past July were chosen from a long list of applicants to participate in North Carolina’s School of Science and Math Summer Accelerator Program.
Rambo-Mohr, a ninth-grader at Mitchell High, and Blake Thayer, an eighth-grader at Bowman Middle, spent a week on Morganton’s new campus as a part of this residential STEM camp. This summer experience was fully funded by Dogwood Health Trust.
Middle and high school students from the 18 Western North Carolina counties encompassed by the Dogwood Health Trust were able to apply for the experience and, if accepted, were offered a free Summer Accelerator course.
Rising seventh through ninth-graders could choose to explore robotics or forensics as a part of the camp. Thayer and Rambo-Mohr both chose to study forensic science and spent the week “solving” a real murder case from the 1930s in a memorable hands-on experience.