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Lt. Governor Murray Visits Tri-County RVTHS

Lt. Governor viewed the school's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) after-school activities.

Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray visited Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School in Franklin Wednesday, March 27, to view the school’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) after-school activities.

Lt. Governor Murray is the chairman of Governor Deval Patrick’s STEM Advisory Council. In this role, the Lt. Governor’s goal is to ensure that all students are educated in STEM fields, which will enable them to pursue post-secondary degrees or careers in these areas, as well as raise awareness of the benefits associated with an increased statewide focus on STEM.  

 "Vocational schools like Tri-County Regional provide students with hands-on training in and outside the classroom to prepare them with competitive 21st century job skills,” Lt. Governor Murray said. “To address the skills gap that many companies are currently facing, vocational schools can proactively prepare students today to apply their skills in our future workforce.”

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State Representative Jeffrey Roy of the 10th Norfolk District, legislative aide Marianne Conboy of the office of Senator Karen E. Spilka of the 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk District, Tri-County superintendent-director Stephen Dockray, Tri-County School Committee member Adeline Bee of N. Attleboro and Tri-County principal Jean Mallon welcomed the Lt. Governor to the school.

 “We were thrilled that Lt. Governor Murray was able to take the time to visit our school. We are very proud of our students’ achievements in STEM fields and of the high quality of teaching our faculty members provide to address those areas,” Dockray said. 

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During his tour around the career technical high school, which serves an 11-town district, Lt. Governor Murray met students and faculty involved in STEM programs, including the Math Team, Robotics Team, TC Green Club and NASA’s HUNCH (High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware) program.

Engineering seniors PJ McLaughlin of Franklin and Adam Civilinski of North Attleboro spoke to Lt. Governor Murray about their trip with four other Tri-County students to Johnson Space Center in Houston through NASA’s HUNCH program.

 The school is among eight high schools in the country and the only school in the Northeast to be chosen by HUNCH to travel to Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field to test their student-built microgravity experiment, a mass meter designed to weigh objects in space, aboard a zero gravity plane. McLaughlin also shared that the FIRST Robotics Team, Tri-Force, recently competed at the Boston FIRST Regional Robotics Competition at Boston University.

While touring the Engineering program’s classroom, the Lt. Governor watched as engineering senior Stephen Hagen of Wrentham used a CNC milling machine to code and then manufacture a Robotics Team emblem. Lt. Governor Murray also visited members of the Tri-County math team as they prepared to host and compete in the annual Vocational Math Meet.

 Before the conclusion of the tour, TC Green Club members Bridget McHugh of Medway and Amanda Duren of North Attleboro presented Lt. Governor Murray with a PowerPoint slideshow about the school’s heirloom vegetable garden. The vegetable garden was made possible through fundraising efforts by the TC Green Club and the Student Council and yielded more than 350 pounds of fresh produce last year, all of which was donated to the Franklin Food Pantry. The TC Green Club plans to plant vegetables once again this spring and summer.

Tri-County RVTHS, located at 147 Pond St., Franklin, serves the communities of Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Plainville, Seekonk, Sherborn, Walpole, and Wrentham. For more information about Tri-County, visit www.tri-county.tc.


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