In an effort to encourage students everywhere to read, our students and staff took advantage of our day out of school to read in the snow! #rloasnowreaders

Many of today's world leaders were once Model UNers. Our school is forming leaders from South Carolina to the world as we believe in problem solving education. Our school mission is to create and sustain a cohesive community, not to mention that our school represents multiple cultures and we are striving to offer world-class opportunities to our young scholars. We are happy to announce that our delegation for Gabon received an award for their exceptional participation. Congratulations to our group of Young Scholars who engaged for the first year of many to come, in this amazing educational experience! RLOA Young Scholars are models of a vibrant educational community.

October 28, 2015 signing of the USDA loan agreement for $18+million for the new campus building project. Present are Dr. Rob McBrayer (Board Chair), Mrs. Brandi Freeman (Board Secretary), Mr. Rusty Craven (USDA Regional Representative), Dr. Karen Wicks (Co-Founder & Executive Director), Mr. Les Wicks (Co-Founder). The RLOA Board approved the agreement at their October 22, 2015 meeting. This is a day long awaited, a journey that Mr. Wicks began some 2 years ago on behalf of RLOA's Board. The RFP for construction bids will go out soon, and we anticipate a ground breaking ceremony in January.

At the beginning of the module students read through a story and were given a challenge that they would have to complete at the end: A group of students were going to a soccer game but forgot their cooler in which to put their Popsicles. After students learned the needed information they were given the task of creating a cooler from materials brought to class that would keep the Popsicles from melting over a 30 minute period. Throughout this module students had to keep an engineering journal where they would put the data from experiments and reflections on what they found from those experiments like a engineer would do.