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Clemente Coalition president Veronica Rohtert won a $5000 South Carolina Federal Credit Union scholarship . She plans to pursue a degree in graphic design, which she wants to use to help support the causes she believes in. To win the scholarship, she completed an application and an essay, which you can read here . Veronica Rohtert is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and moved to Charleston, SC in 2014. She graduated with honors Magna Cum Laude from Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN. She has worked as a Facility Liaison for Ricoh Americas Corporation where she used her knowledge of copiers and office management to facilitate two buildings for United HealthCare. Veronica started two family businesses and was the Office Manager for both Tennessee Laser Express and Sumner Gun & Supply.   Since moving to South Carolina she decided to dream a new dream and return to college. This new dream is in commercial graphic design and she intends to use this degree to aid ...

Hanover Street Garden, 2012 With the East Side fast becoming one of Charleston’s most desirable neighborhoods, it is hard to remember that it was once a place where the city relegated eyesores and polluters. Tanneries released foul odors and noxious liquids into its creeks and marshes. Hogs and cattle were slaughtered at “butcher pens” that supplied meat for the city market. Garbage carts dumped trash in the streets, slowly building up new land from the detritus of life downtown. The city dump, with its flocks of buzzards, gave way to an incinerator that spewed showers of ash. Industrial engines and locomotives alike belched clouds of smoke. In its heyday as an upscale suburb, Hampstead, as it was then known, boasted an expansive park and a handful of palatial homes. It even had a botanical garden, near the site of the now-vacant grocery store many Eastsiders still think of as the Piggly Wiggly. But for almost a century, Hampstead was also the place where Charleston warehoused its poor...

Micropipette Lab Materials by Dr. Maureen Whitehurst and Ms. Michelle Lee, Biology Instructors.  It is wonderful when it all comes together! Palmer General Biology (BIO 101) and Microbiology (BIO 225) students enjoyed a significant laboratory curriculum upgrade during the Spring 2018 semester. A Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) device was acquired via mini-grant funding from the TTC Foundation. Adding samples to an electrophoresis gel This device amplifies a small quantity of DNA and allows students to visualize the results. It is up-to-date technology and we are proud to incorporate this new lab into our curriculum. Students learned how to dispense tiny quantities of chemicals (microliter amounts, 1000 th of a milliliter),  how to add samples to an electrophoresis gel, how  operate the PCR machine, and finally interpret data. Loading the gel electrophoresis Palmer teamwork allowed this example of student success. Earlier mini-grant success provided the iPad tablet to con...

The Taste of the Lowcountry food tour takes you on an exclusive look inside the Culinary Institute of Charleston, the brains behind the ever-evolving restaurant scene in Charleston. Using locally-sourced products, the chef will create a culinary masterpiece filled with seasonal flavors to fulfill your palate.  This tour is a must for any foodie living in, or visiting, Charleston, SC. About the tour: $65 Per Person Fridays only 9:30am – 12pm Tour Begins at Mercantile and Mash, 701 East Bay Street Your guide will give you a brief history of the city’s traditions and food culture, all while enjoying coffee, artisan pastries, and stone-ground grits After a short walk to the Culinary Institute of Charleston, you will tour the state-of-the-art facility which includes 22,000 square feet of enormous ovens, over-sized mixers, and one-of-a-kind industrialized kitchens Enjoy a cooking demo and tasting of local ingredients, many that are grown fresh from his garden. Chef Huff only uses seasona...

The Charleston Clemente Course will hold its spring graduation ceremony in the Downtown Palmer Campus Amphitheater on April 26 at 6 pm.  In January of 2005, Trident Technical College launched its groundbreaking Charleston Clemente Course Project, offering courses during the fall and spring at Palmer Campus. Students receive free tuition, meals, books, bus passes, mentoring and refurbished computers. In HSS 101, students embark on a study of art and American history. Students passing this course can then take HSS 102, which combines the study of literature, philosophy and writing. In this class, students are exposed to the Western paradigm through the works of Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Kant and Mill and to the Eastern paradigm through excerpts pertaining to Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism. In addition to the classroom, Clemente students participate in other activities, including a play. Many of Clemente graduates go on to complete their associate and bachelor’s degrees. Some obta...