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Coal Creek Scholars!!
Scholars spoke to and inspired the Briceville School
4th and 5th graders to attend college or technical school
and to work hard for a successful career!
 

When she was in the fifth grade at Briceville School in 2004, Megan Dugger attended a lecture by Welsh scholar, Dr. Eirug Davies of Harvard University, who told her that an education would enable her to do anything she wanted to do.  Little did Megan know that fifteen years later, she would be saying those same words of wisdom to Briceville fourth and fifth graders, via videoconference, while sitting in the Mannheim Baroque Palace in Mannheim, Germany, as part of the 18^th annual Coal Creek Scholars Day event.  Megan is studying abroad while pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Tennessee in German, but took time out from her studies to inspire current Briceville students.

Mannheim Baroque Palace in Mannheim, Germany
 

Coal Creek Watershed Foundation President Barry Thacker, PE
speaks to students.  One of the facts he shared with them is that you can
make up to a MILLION DOLLARS more in your lifetime if you receive
a college or technical degree and USE IT!

Since 2002, over $500,000 has been invested in college scholarships to help 59 Coal Creek Scholars from Briceville go to college.  Coal Creek Scholars are current and future nurses, engineers, doctors, teachers, therapists, scientists, lawyers, business leaders, business owners, as well as medical/computer/artistic specialists.

Briceville School 4th and 5th graders, Principal Travis Hutchison, teachers
Peyton Stooksbury & Loren Forgety with the Coal Creek Scholars

From article by Fred Brown, “Prints of Wales,” in
Knoxville News Sentinel on 9 May 2004