From staff reports
Battery Creek High School rising junior Alex Vega has been accepted to the South Carolina Commissioner’s School for Agriculture from July 23 to 29 at Clemson University.
Serving fewer than 700 students from around the southeast, the exclusive, week-long program is open to rising 11th and 12th graders with a genuine interest in pursuing a college degree within the agricultural or natural resources field.
Vega and others like him will learn leadership skills through hands-on experiences and activities, including exploration of classrooms, laboratories, field and forest facilities operated by the school. Participants are also able to experience first-hand college student residential life while living in the dorms during the seven-day camp.
“I’m really looking forward to this summer,” Vega said in a release. “I was happy to be accepted into the competitive program and want to take my educational experience further with this opportunity.”
In addition to two years of coursework in the agriculture program at Battery Creek, Vega is the incoming Vice President of the school’s chapter of the Future Farmers of American
