Auburn, Ala. - The Auburn Studio Project (ASP), hosted by Auburn Parks and Recreation, the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will be held on Tuesday, March 5 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum. This community-based, art education program offers Auburn 6th and 7th grade students from the Hal Moore Youth Leadership National Academy an interactive, educational experience in the arts.

800 students from 60 colleges will compete this year at Auburn University at the 37th annual Student Career Days– “The National Collegiate Landscape Competition”– March 7-10. 

The event is a combination skills exhibition which is like the “landscape Olympics” with 28 individual and team events such as tree climbing (arboriculture), wood construction, patio installation, landscape installation and more. It is also a recruiting event where companies come from across the country to interview college horticulture students. At a time when many students can’t find jobs after college, those graduating from college landscape programs have a better that 90% placement rate. 

Some of the regional schools that are competing include Auburn U., NC State, Chattahoochee Technical College, U. Georgia, Clemson, etc. as well as schools from around the country like Penn State, Cal Poly, Colorado State, Michigan State, Oregon State, U. MD, U.

The Alabama Association of School Boards Board of Directors announces its second annual statewide “How We Achieve Excellence in Our School” video contest for public high schools. The contest applauds excellence in teaching, the creativity of Alabama’s public high school students and the positive school experiences that inspire students to graduate. Three lucky schools will win prizes for their 30- to 60-second commercials/public service announcements. The top three videos will be shown Dec. 7 at AASB’s annual convention at The Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham and at the June 11 Alabama State Board of Education meeting in Montgomery.