Browse past news stories for Southwest High School in Jacksonville, NC.

• Player Of The Week: Senior Stallion (WITN 7 North Carolina)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 11:07:18 pm
  Reagan Peegin comes from an athletic family. He and his brother have both played for the Southwest High School football team in Jacksonville.
• Area Happenings (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 10:36:08 am
  ONSLOW COUNTY Farmers Market hosts its annual Fall Festival from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 7 with local fall fruits/vegetables, baked goods, cheese, hay rides, live music and more.
• Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones? (Fast Company Magazine)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 01:14:32 pm
  Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies to help kids conquer math. Are smartphone-learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick? In middle school, math was Taylor Scott's worst subject by far. "I honestly hated it," says Scott, now a 15-year-old sophomore at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She'd take notes as the teacher droned on, but she never really ...
• Your neighbors in the news (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on September 15, 2009 at 10:21:18 pm
  Boy Scout Troop 216 MCAS New River and 5 girls from Foy’s Woodworks Girls Softball Team were honored by Mayor Sammy Phillips at the Sept. 8, Jacksonville City Council meeting for their support and dedication to disabled children and adults in our community.
• Local teens take part in IT initiative (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 03:15:10 pm
  Two Southwest High School rising seniors are heading to Washington D.C. Sunday in hopes of furthering their futures.
• Service news (The Herald-Mail)
  posted on July 17, 2009 at 11:37:21 am
  Melissa A. Crocker; Jesse A. Hale; Marquita J. Polhill; Patrick J. Leal; Scott Port; Cody J. Thomas; Randy J. Saylor; Jeremy C. Runco; Thomas M. Flanagan; Edward W. Lewis
• Families remember four slain soldiers (New Bern Sun Journal)
  posted on July 4, 2009 at 09:57:34 pm
  JACKSONVILLE - Family and friends are still mourning the loss of four soldiers from Eastern North Carolina who died in Iraq last week.
• Stepfather: Jacksonville soldier one of four killed Monday in Iraq (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on July 2, 2009 at 07:11:40 pm
  While the U.S. military has not identified the four U.S. soldiers based in Baghdad who died of combat-related injuries on Monday, a local man said one of them is his stepson.
• Onslow meeting recruiting goals (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 09:41:40 pm
  Kyle Walden, 22, went to Coastal Carolina Community College immediately after graduating from Southwest High School. After realizing that college wasn't for him, Walden started working at a local restaurant.
• Onslow County graduation dates (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 12:11:50 am
  Dixon High School - June 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. Southwest High School - June 11 at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium. Swansboro High School - June 11 at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium.
• Future teachers in area as part of six-day tour of the state (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on May 19, 2009 at 09:26:50 pm
  Thirteen Onslow County students, who each received a 2009 N.C. Teaching Fellows Scholarship, can look forward to taking the Discovery bus tour when they are sophomores.
• Students ply their trades (Jacksonville Daily News)
  posted on March 28, 2009 at 09:55:21 pm
  Building a level wall or driving a straight nail may not sound too exciting if you're just a spectator, but mix in eager high school students and competitive parents and you've got a heck of a show.
• One cellphone per child? (CNN Money)
  posted on February 23, 2009 at 06:08:06 pm
  More than two decades ago, Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs introduced the world to a new technology standard for cellphones. Now Jacobs hopes to make cell phones standard equipment in the world's classrooms.
• Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom (The Hendersonville Times-News)
  posted on February 17, 2009 at 04:52:19 pm
  Proponents of selling cellphones to schools have said that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.