Justin Hill Kinston Free Press As the local economy — specifically, industrial growth — expands toward levels not seen in 50 years, Lenoir County Economic Director Mark Pope believes an important part of the plan has to be presenting students with information about career opportunities. “We’ve moved ourselves from a very agrarian and textile-based (economy) since the 1980s,” he said. “We’ve done that a lot in the last six or seven years … our goal is to pool our labor force from our youth.” Tuesday, a student exploratory council, consisting of 16 high school students from Arendell Parrott Academy, Kinston,…
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May 25, 2007 KINSTON, N.C.—After successfully passing another elimination round, Insight Racing and N.C. State University’s College of Engineering displayed its computer-driven Lotus Elise today at the TransPark Center. This vehicle is targeted to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge on November 3, 2007. DARPA created the Grand Challenge events to advance unmanned vehicle driving technology more rapidly, answering a congressional mandate to convert one-third of military vehicles to driverless, computer-driven mode by 2015. On May 10, the Insight Racing team was informed that its vehicle continues to be a candidate for inclusion in the…