New Hampshire colleges push for high-tech grads

New Hampshire's community colleges and four-year campuses are working together to turn out more high-tech graduates, promising to double the number in the next 13 years. Last year, the four University System of New Hampshire schools and the 11 community colleges awarded about 8,200 degrees and certificates, including 1,100 degrees in science, technology, engineering or math. Under an agreement signed yesterday, the latter number would increase by 50 percent by 2020 and double by 2025. "For all practical purposes, we are the pipeline for New Hampshire's future.… 0

'We really grow as a group of friends'

Concord High School senior class president Ben Nicholson says he and his friends have formed a philosophy about high school society. Nicholson will be attending Brown University in the fall and is interested in philosophy and… 0

'We can say what we feel'

Concord High School students (from left) Steve "Knukles" Caswell, 18; Pat "Sonik" Drew, 17; Annie "Jinxity" Nguyen, 18; Hannah "Monkie" Nash, 17; and Marc "Manix" Catino (class of '05), 21, stand in a plastic swimming pool in… 0

'I probably got 300 hugs, flat minimum'

Concord High School sophomore Jonathan Stiles, 15, walks around the Verizon Wireless Arena during the 2007 Granite State Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. Stiles, who has been a member of the Robotics Team since his freshman… 0

Fried chicken, Mountain Dew, couscous

Kyle Barton, 14 (left) and Evan Glidden, 17, both of Loudon, buy gummy worms at True Confections at the Steeplegate Mall. Kyle draws sustenance from Pepsi (about five bottles a day), orange chicken, Dunkin' Donuts croissants and… 0