Ms. Lonnie Villarino helping Justin of the Red Team with StarTech math.

Gear Up Grant

MTC GEAR UP is a part of the South Carolina GEAR UP grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered through the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.

We would like to also thank Mike Raley, Karen Woodfaulk, Shirley Woodside, and Joellen Cooke of the  South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.

From MTC

We would like to thank 

• Dr. Barry Russell, President
• Dr. Jean Mahaffey, Vice-President of Education 
• Dr. Ron Drayton, Associate Vice President of Education .

We would like to thank the Developmental Studies Department who helped us interview students last fall and 

We also would like to thank Linda Mims, Administrative Assistant of Education, for answering every question we came up with.

Local Middle Schools

We would like to thank 

• Ethel Johnson, Assistant Principal for Instruction at Pine Ridge
• Michelle Slice, guidance counselor at Batesburg-Leesville
• Cedelle Gates, guidance counselor at Busbee
• Holly Miller, guidance counselor at Sandhills.

For assisting in the development of a mentoring program, we would like to thank Stacey Westberry, Career Coordinator for the Central Midlands School-to-Work Partnership.

Local Community

We would like to thank Carolina Bagel in Lexington for donating bagels for breakfast, and we would like to thank The State Newspaper for donating copies of the morning paper for each student and instructor each day GEAR UP meets.

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Site Development

These web pages were organized and constructed by Jeffrey Lynn Hopkins, Physics & Astronomy Professor, Midlands
Technical College.

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