PICKENS COUNTY — Alliance Pickens and the School District of Pickens County are working together to celebrate a group of students that have distinguished themselves in the subject areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM as they are collectively referred to. The event, “Pickens County Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, an Evening of…
In what has become an annual occurrence, the School District of Pickens County is once again home to the South Carolina State Champion mechatronics team. Mechatronics programs teach students to combine mechanical and electrical engineering principles and since 2004, the team from Pickens County has won first place 7 times at the statewide SkillsUSA competition…
Daniel High School is South Carolina’s top traditional public high school according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings released yesterday. Only Charleston’s Academic Magnet High School and the Charleston County School of the Arts ranked above the Pickens County school. Sharon Huff, principal, said, “I am very proud of our students and teachers. Our…