Rogers Scholars on Thursday toured the John F. Kennedy Space Center via a live, interactive videoconference with NASA officials.
The videoconference—presented by NASA’s Digital Learning Network and brought to Scholars by The Center for Rural Development’s CenterNET2 videoconferencing network—gave them a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to prepare a spacecraft for liftoff.
Earlier in the day, [...]

Playing in the 1972 Olympic Games was both the best and worst experience of Kenny Davis’ life.
Davis, a Wayne County native and All-American basketball from Georgetown College, shared his recollections of being a part of perhaps the most controversial game in basketball history–and witnessing events surrounding one of the worst atrocities in Olympic history–with a [...]

Rogers Scholars worked on leadership and team-building skills on Monday at the Team Leadership Center in Wayne County.
Under the direction of lead facilitator Norrie Wake and his support team, Scholars participated in a series of hands-on leadership and team-building exercises.
In one of the exercises, Scholars learned what it takes to work as a team when [...]