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RPCC student teaches seniors computers

LA (6/28/2009)

http://www.weeklycitizen.com/news/x135727741/RPCC-student-teaches-seniors-computers

Todd Borne, a student at River Parishes Community College in Sorrento, was awarded a Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur grant through the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Partnership Foundation and the Louisiana Campus Compact for his proposal to teach computer skills to senior citizens.

Read the full story in the Gonzales Weekly Citizen.

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