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Blackman Collegiate Academy juniors discover MTSU offerings

Blackman High School juniors who are part of the Blackman Collegiate Academy partnership with MTSU learned about biology research, how foreign languages can enhance their lives, unmanned aircraft systems and more. Eighty Blackman students visited MTSU Tuesday (Feb. 12) as part of the partnership between the university and the Rutherford County high school on the…

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Blackman Alum, now a bestselling young adult author, selected for prestigious program to support entrepreneurs

Growing up in Murfreesboro, M. Tara Crowl could be described as curious. That curiosity led the 2004 graduate of Blackman High School to Los Angeles, where she majored in cinematic arts at the University of Southern California and then briefly worked in the entertainment industry, before graduate school in Australia. She earned a master of…

Blackman librarian creates guest speaker series

Blackman librarian creates guest speaker series to show students success is achievable

It’s an introduction to endless possibilities. It’s also about the possibility that even as a high school student, in Murfreesboro, ordinary people can go on to accomplish the extraordinary. That is the premise of an ongoing series at Blackman High School. Started by librarian Brian Seadorf, the original speaker series has evolved into “A conversion…

Blackman Collegiate Academy explores MTSU science options

Blackman Collegiate Academy explores MTSU science options

Blackman Collegiate Academy juniors sampled science at MTSU and the University Honors College during a Friday(March 24) visit to campus. Geosciences, biology, physics and astronomy, Concrete Industry Management and the university’s Experimental Vehicles Program were areas the Blackman High School students discovered in the school’s second visit to MTSU this year. The MTSU-Blackman partnership is…

Blackman students visit MTSU

Blackman students listen, learn, produce during MTSU visit

Working in pairs of two, 10 Blackman High School students tackled an assignment from William McDowell, professor and chair holder of the Wright Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at MTSU. McDowell gave the students, part of a group of nearly 70 Blackman Collegiate Academy sophomores on campus Thursday, Feb….