Tag Archives: Education

East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) is happy to announce that ETF’s 2019 scholarship opportunities include 17 scholarships for Sevier County students for the 2019-2020 school year. Scholarship information and applications for 2019 are available at http://www.etf.org/scholarships. The application deadline is February 15, 2019. ETF scholarship program requirements range from financial need to scholastic achievement. Several scholarships are targeted toward specific schools ...

Sevier County 4-H member Christy Newsom recently received the Tennessee Rural Health Nursing Scholarship valued at $1250 and the Eastern Region Family Community Education Club Scholarship valued at $300. The Rural Health Scholarship is renewable. Christy is a 2017 graduate of Pigeon Forge High School and will study nursing this fall at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. Christy has been ...

Sevier County Partners in Progress Education Foundation is hosting three different seminars to provide information to parents and students about the pathway to free college. If you have a child in middle school or high school and you reside in Sevier County, we invite you to attend one of the following three meetings to learn about free college and how ...

Local officials and education administrators met on Tuesday to announce a new partnership to increase access to higher education opportunities in Sevier County. The Sevier County School System, Walters State Community College, East Tennessee State University and Tennessee College of Applied Technology have joined together in the Sevier County Partners in Progress Education Program to help citizens earn associate degrees ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is offering a free elementary school teacher workshop this fall. Activities include exploring the park with a “living” map, visiting with Granny Franny at the Noah ‘Bud’ Ogle cabin to learn about Appalachian medicinal plants, conducting a forest biodiversity inventory and learning how to use a crosscut saw! All elementary school teachers are welcome to ...

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is now giving students who left high school before graduating the opportunity to earn their high school equivalency diploma at no cost. “This is a real game changer for those who need this credential to get a job,” said Jason Beard, administrator of the Adult Education Division of the Tennessee Department of ...

Six Sevier County 4-H members will receive intensive training in their project areas at the University of Tennessee. William Barbee, Olivia Browning, Holly Glynn, Nate Sams and Colin Tillman from the Homeschool 4-H club along with David Hall from Jones Cove are delegates to the State Junior High 4-H Academic Conference in Knoxville, June 9-12, 2015. They will be among ...

Spring will be here before you know it, and with it will come household and lawn pests. A Pesticide Safety Program (PSEP) is available through University of Tennessee Extension, including Pesticide Certification Training in Knoxville, Tenn., and several other selected locations across the state. Training sessions generally occur the first Wednesday of each month. Pesticide certification training provides knowledge to individuals ...