In recognition and celebration of Black History Month, Seminole State College will host a special program featuring guest speaker Joyce Jackson – founder of SHADES of Oklahoma magazine and the first female African American Newscaster in Oklahoma. The event will take place next Thursday, February 8 at 11:15 a.m. inside the Jeff Johnston Auditorium on campus and is free and open to the public.
The Seminole State College Upward Bound Projects recently held an academic workshop for 142 student participants. SSC STEM Professor Jarrod Tollett (pictured), along with high school teachers Judith Clark of Paden High School, Kevin Ozment of Seminole High School and Jennifer Towler of Demme Learning Online, introduced the group to a variety of physics concepts. Using 94Fifty Smart Sensor Robotic Basketballs, the students were able to apply concepts such as hang-time, velocity and acceleration to the sport of basketball.
The Seminole State College Educational Foundation received a donation at the end of 2017 valued at over one million dollars – one of the largest gifts in the organization’s history. This large real estate donation was given by the family of Roger and Pam Parks of Parks Manufacturing, founders of Blue Wave Boats, currently located in Seminole, Okla.
The real estate graciously donated to the SSC Foundation is located in Checotah, Okla. and was the original manufacturing facility of Blue Wave Boats, a company managed and developed by Roger and Pamela Parks and operated along with their two sons, Steven and Richard. The donated area features roughly 20-acres of land, including a large office building and roughly 60,000 square feet of factory buildings. The Parks family donation will be placed in a special fund to be named the Parks Family Community Fund, which will be used for projects that support the educational mission of the Foundation, while also helping to develop educational and community activities involving or supported by Seminole State College.
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