Three Philadelphia High School Advanced Placement students spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend immersed in college-level STEM coursework and Mississippi history in Jackson.
Axl Battle, Piers Coburn, and Quan Clemons were selected to attend the Global Teaching Project Advanced STEM Winter Program, a three-day seminar held Jan. 17-19 in partnership with Jackson State University.
The program brought together students from rural communities across the state for intensive instruction in subjects such as computer science, biology, physics, and statistics…