NCC students receive grants for service projects

Laura Rex of Walnutport was one of three Northampton Community College students who were selected to receive grants to fund their service projects.

NCC awarded the students with the Civic and Community Engagement Student Service Project Endowment. The endowment was established by Marcia Stewart in honor of her late husband, Craig T. Stewart.

The endowment allows students to serve the community and the college in ways they wouldn’t be able to without funding.

Craig, a kind and generous man, volunteered as a youth baseball coach and youth bowling coach for many years and believed in service to the community.

Rex, PTK secretary, decided to do her “2019 Honors in Action Project” on STEM as it relates to underserved students. Rex and her team of students do outreach to get young students more involved in studying and excelling in these subject areas.

Her team went to Trexler Middle School to speak with eighth-graders and get them interested in STEM. Rex had a table at the middle school’s annual carnival and brought in activities related such as an engineering puzzle cube, math trivia and more. Rex’s team also went to a preschool and donated magnifying glasses to be used for science activities in class.