CONWAY — Students at Kennett High next year will be able to help build an electric car from scratch, thanks to a $50,000 grant acquired by Virginia Schrader, director of the MWV Career and Technical Center, this spring.
“It's just incredibly exciting,” Joe Lentini, Conway School Board chair, said at Monday’s meeting, as the board approved the $39,494 purchase of the electronic car from Switch Vehicles Inc. in Sebastopol, Calif.
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