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Book Publishers Wade and Cheryl Hudson (center) with Academy Director Amanda Murray (at right).

Over 250 enthusiastic adults and students recently attended the annual school-wide Fair of the READY Academy at First Baptist Church-Bute Street where youngsters from 3 to 7 years old eagerly talked about their family projects.

Ready Academy Celebrates Its 4th Annual STEMA Fair/Open House

  On Saturday, May l7th at 10 a.m. over 250 enthusiastic adults and students attended the school-wide Fair where youngsters from 3 to 7 years old (Pre-K 3, Pre-K-4, Pre-K5, 1st and 2nd graders eagerly talked about their family projects in STEMA: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and the Arts.
  Parents and other adult guests rotated every 10 minutes to each grade level to see and hear about these projects such as “The Naked Egg”, “Creating Volcanoes and Clouds”, “Uses of Computers and Trains”, “Counting Games” and the “Arts in Motion”.
  READY (Reaching Educationally Aspiring Dynamic Youth) is the school created by the Historic First Baptist Church of Norfolk where Dr. Robert G. Murray is the Senior Pastor and First Lady Amanda Murray is the school’s Director. Mr. Charles S. Corprew is chairman of the Education Board.
This year’s STEMA Fair also had the added excitement of a first time visit from Wade and Cheryl Hudson, owner and publisher of the nationally acclaimed “Just Us Books”, Inc. that for 20 years have been producing black-informed books for young people

Posted June 4, 2008

  The visit from the Hudsons was in celebration of the READY Academy Media Center Grand Open House where youngsters were able to check out their first book from the newly automatic Media Center. As parents rotated through the Media Center, they were able to check out books and to personally meet the warm and wonderful Hudsons while also purchasing the Hudson books and having them autographed.
  The Hudsons later shared with the parents their amazement with the READY Runners students in light of their discipline, enthusiasm and confidence at such an early age.
  We were delighted to find out that Cheryl Hudson and Amanda Murray were both 1966 honor graduates of I.C. Norcom High School.
READY Academy will hold its 3rd Annual Kindergarten Graduation on Saturday, June 7th 10 a.m. at the Murray Center, The Public is cordially invited. For more information, please call the school at 622-5650.

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