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Career Clusters connect school work with the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and careers. Each Career Cluster identifies pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace. These videos will motivate students to work harder to achieve their career goals.

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Dori Sanders: Clover | Periscope

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Dori Sanders: Clover | Periscope
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The setting for her first book, Clover, is a peach farm like the one Dori Sanders grew up on. Clover was published in 1990 and immediately became a best-seller. In the story, Clover is a 10-year-old...
Dori Sanders, Author | Periscope

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Dori Sanders, Author | Periscope
Episode 11
Dori Sanders' book Clover has been translated into five different languages and made into a Disney film. The story is set in the countryside of South Carolina, and told through the eyes of a 10-year...
Policemen & Federal Marshals | Periscope

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Policemen & Federal Marshals | Periscope
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By the time Ruby was six years old, there were new laws stating that African American and white students had to integrate, or share, schools. People such as Martin Luther King, Jr. had worked for...
Catawba Art Exhibit | Palmetto Scene Shannon Johnson, Olympics Basketball Player

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Shannon Johnson, Olympics Basketball Player
Shannon Johnson's titles include University of South Carolina All-American,WNBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist, and Head Coach of the Coker College women’s basketball team. Produced by Sarah Stone...
 Vincent Kolb-Lugo

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Vincent Kolb-Lugo
Meet Vincent Kolb-Lugo. He's a radio producer at South Carolina Public Radio. Go behind the scenes as he describes what he does at the station and why it's important for South Carolina. South Carolina...
Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

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Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension...

Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Stem Cells (short version) | diSCovering science

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Stem Cells (short version) | diSCovering science
Richard Visconti, Ph.D., gives a quick overview of the significance of stem cell research - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with scientists and researchers from South Carolina’s...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Biochip Uses | diSCovering science

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Biochip Uses | diSCovering science
Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D explains biochips. A biochip is very close to a computer chip but they put it in a cell culture dish to make it very clean to culture a cell. The chip is made of silicone which is...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Organ Printing Overview | diSCovering science

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Organ Printing Overview | diSCovering science
Vladimir Mironov, MD, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. & Dir. of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Dept. of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology at MUSC, talks about research on human organ printing...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Biochips & Research | diSCovering science

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Biochips & Research | diSCovering science
Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D talks about cyber research and how different cells are put together to form a tissue that treats disease. Through fundamental research they are using a biochip as a tool to create...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Biomedical Engineering Career Path | diSCovering science

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Biomedical Engineering Career Path | diSCovering science
Melissa A. Moss, Ph.D., shares her life-long interest in mathematics and science and how that led to a career in Biomedical Engineering - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Cell Research | diSCovering science

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Cell Research | diSCovering science
Their research is mainly cell interaction and they focus on: heart muscle cells, Neurons, cancer cells and stem cells. They study those cells due to the complicity of the diseases. Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D...
Bioengineering: Space Travel | diSCovering science Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science

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Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science
Vladimir Mironov, MD, Ph.D., describes the process of organ printing - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with scientists and researchers from South Carolina’s colleges and...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Alternative Energy | diSCovering science

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Alternative Energy | diSCovering science
John Weidner, Ph.D., a chemical engineer at the University of South Carolina, talks about his researchers studying alternative energy storage - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Alzheimer's Disease | diSCovering science

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Alzheimer's Disease | diSCovering science
Melissa A. Moss, Ph.D., talks about advances being made in Alzheimer’s Disease research and explains how protein aggregates in the brain can lead to the progression of this disease - The “diSCovering...
Organ Printing Basics | diSCovering science Science: Biology | diSCovering science

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Science: Biology | diSCovering science
Joe Flaherty, Ph.D., a biologist at Coker College in Hartsville, SC, talks about his lab’s research of fungal pathogens that affect food crops - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews...