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ASAP: Students get the facts on drugs, win free chicken

Posted at 9:26 pm February 2, 2017
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Victoria Seiber, the Chick-fil-A Cow, and Alexis Roy at Clinton High School for the ASAP Ambassador’s National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge. (Photo by Allies for Substance Abuse Prevention of Anderson County)

Victoria Seiber, the Chick-fil-A Cow, and Alexis Roy at Clinton High School for the ASAP Ambassador’s National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge. (Photo by Allies for Substance Abuse Prevention of Anderson County)

 

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The ASAP Ambassadors Youth Coalition from Anderson County, Clinton, and Oak Ridge high schools celebrated National Drug and Alcohol Facts week last week. Aiming to increase their peers’ awareness of the dangers of drugs and alcohol, the student-led group organized the event.

Students from the three high schools tested their knowledge on drugs and drug abuse by taking the 2017 National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge during their school’s lunch periods. Student contestants answered questions in a buzzer style trivia game related to mental health, marijuana, and other drugs.

With the support of Project AWARE and Chick-fil-A, the event was a crowd-pleasing success, but most importantly, students gained valuable knowledge. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Nonprofits Tagged With: 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop, alcohol, Alexis Roy, Anderson County Schools, ASAP, ASAP Ambassador’s National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge, ASAP Ambassadors Youth Coalition, Chick-fil-A, Clinton High School, drug abuse, drugs, Kim Guinn, Manshi Patel, marijuana, mental health, National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Project AWARE, substance abuse, substance abuse prevention, Victoria Seiber

Pro2Serve, Covenant Health form joint venture in health care data analytics

Posted at 1:13 pm February 10, 2016
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Pictured above are Tony Spezia, left, president and CEO of Covenant Health, and Barry Goss, founder and CEO of Pro2Serve. (Submitted photo)

 

Professional Project Services Inc., or Pro2Serve, and Covenant Health have formed VortexT Analytics Inc., a strategic partnership that will address the rapidly evolving field of big data analytics in health care, a press release said.

The joint venture will use VortexT, a data analytics software based on algorithms originally developed and patented by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and licensed and further advanced by Pro2Serve. VortexT is currently being used in critical national security applications and is producing valuable data, the press release said.

Barry Goss, founder and chief executive officer of Pro2Serve, calls VortexT “a disruptive big data analytics technology that is proven, sustainable, and ready to be introduced into commercial markets, starting with healthcare.

“VortexT analyzes more data in less time and at less cost, and produces more valuable information than other big data analytics technologies,” Goss said. “We also hold field-of-use licenses for applying the technology to the insurance, financial services, and legal services industries.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Health, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop, Barry Goss, Covenant Health, data analytics, data analytics software, health care, Homer Fisher, ORNL, Pro2Serve, Professional Project Services Inc., Tony Spezia, VortexT Analytics Inc., VortexT Healthcare App

FBI, ORPD, Knox respond to bank robbery, kidnapping report at Y-12 FCU

Posted at 5:05 pm April 28, 2015
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Oak Ridge Police Department at Y-12 Federal Credit Union

Oak Ridge Police Department officers were at the Y-12 Federal Credit Union in Oak Ridge on Tuesday morning. The branch will remain closed Wednesday, although the credit union’s headquarters will be open.

 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, and the Oak Ridge Police Department responded to the Y-12 Federal Credit Union at 501 Lafayette Drive on Tuesday on a report of a bank robbery, kidnapping, and extortion.

Preliminary reports indicate that at about 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, an employee of the credit union and the employee’s family were threatened in an attempt to obtain money from the credit union, an FBI press release said. The employee’s family was held for a period of time before being released in the Gettysvue Country Club parking lot in Knoxville at around 9:25 a.m. During the law enforcement response, the suspects fled, and no injuries have been reported, and no money was taken from the credit union. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Knox County, Oak Ridge, Police, Police and Fire, Slider, U.S. Tagged With: 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop, bank robbery, extortion, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, kidnapping, Knox County Sheriff’s Office, Northshore Drive, robbery, Whittington Creek, Whittington Creek Boulevard, Y-12 Federal Credit Union

Webinar on Dreambox Learning for parents, tutors on Dec. 8

Posted at 1:04 am November 24, 2014
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Oak Ridge preschool (four-year-old class) and grades K-4 parents and community member tutors are welcome to learn more about the math program Dreambox Learning at a live Webinar to be held on December 8 from 7-7:30 p.m. Space is limited to the first 100 respondents. To register, please go to: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/124307575.

Dreambox Learning is a highly successful, research-based math program that Oak Ridge Schools provides to its elementary school students and teachers and to some students with special needs at the secondary level. Not every teacher uses Dreambox in the classroom (although many do), but all students in those grade ranges have access to it at home or wherever they may have Internet access. Elementary school Web pages have Dreambox badges on their sites to help families navigate to Dreambox from home.

We hope you will join us to ask questions, experience a lesson, and learn how you can support your child with DreamBox at home.

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12 Tagged With: 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop, Dreambox Learning, math program, parents, tutors

UT’s Joan Cronan to give keynote address at federal women workshop

Posted at 12:39 pm February 21, 2013
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Joan Cronan

Joan Cronan

Joan Cronan, University of Tennessee women’s athletic director emeritus and consultant and adviser to the chancellor, will be the keynote speaker at a women’s workshop in March.

The 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop is co-sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Federal Women’s Program and the Federally Employed Women Oak Ridge Chapter.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Government, Oak Ridge Office, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 2013 Oak Ridge Women’s Workshop, Federally Employed Women Oak Ridge Chapter, Joan Cronan, Oak Ridge Federal Women’s Program, resilience, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, women’s athletic director emeritus

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