研究三角园迎来新STEM特许高中 首届150名九年级学生开学
上周，位于研究三角园（RTP）的一所全新公立特许高中 Carolina Collegiate High School举行了开学典礼。这所学院预备型 STEM 学校租用改建后的办公楼一层、设址于 RTP 的 100 Capitola Drive，首批招收约150名九年级学生，学生来自达勒姆周边的吉尔福德、查塔姆和阿拉曼斯等多个县。学校由创办人 Joey Webb 推动创办，与 Great Schools North Carolina 和 Civic Builders两家机构合作建设，未来计划逐步扩展至十二年级完整规模。
在剪彩仪式上，学生志愿者带领嘉宾参观了工程、数据、环境、计算机科学、世界历史、语言及选修等教室。学校课程设计注重灵活性，一位学生在计算机课上完成了设计词性测验App的作业。Webb透露，从一个想法变成一所学校并不容易：他此前实地看过至少53栋楼才找到现在的校址，他本人也曾在另一所 STEM 特许学校 Research Triangle High School 的董事会任职。据《Triangle Tribune》报道，首批入学的学生在新校园里每天带着笑容上学，这所学校已经成为当地家长关注的新选择。
New STEM Charter High School Opens in Research Triangle Park With 150 Ninth-Graders
Last week, Carolina Collegiate High School, a brand-new public charter high school in Research Triangle Park (RTP), held its opening ceremony. The college-preparatory STEM school occupies the converted first floor of an office building at 100 Capitola Drive in RTP, and has enrolled about 150 ninth-grade students in its first class, drawn from Guilford, Chatham, Alamance and other counties around Durham. The school was founded by Joey Webb in partnership with Great Schools North Carolina and Civic Builders, and plans to expand grade by grade into a full high school through 12th grade.
At the ribbon-cutting, student volunteers led guests on tours of classrooms for engineering, data, environment, computer science, world history, languages and electives. The curriculum emphasizes flexibility — one student completed a parts-of-speech quiz app as a computer class project. Webb said turning an idea into a school was not easy: he personally toured at least 53 buildings before finding the current site, and he previously served on the board of another STEM charter school, Research Triangle High School. According to the Triangle Tribune, the first students arrive at the new campus smiling every day, and the school has quickly become a much-watched new option for local parents.
图片来源：研究三角园内的Lake Betz。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons，AbhiramJuvvadi 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0 授权
