Harvey and Mary Black, coordinator of South Sumter Resource Center, are instructors for the camps, which target children who might not have access to computers. The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is participating in several of these projects, along with local citizens and faculty from Clemson, S.C. State and the state's technical colleges. When you are planning for your grandchildren, instead of for the next four or five years, you look at the future differently. He said that the projects are community driven. Faculty leadership teams went to the community, listened to the needs, and set up action teams to design and implement projects.
Participants represent a cross-section of ages, incomes, education levels and cultural backgrounds.
It is amazing to see the faculty cooperation. It has motivated and invigorated persons to change the role of land grant institutions as they move into the 21st century. Across the state, several other Alliance 2020 projects have begun. S.C. State and Clemson University are partners in an ambitious distance learning project to help students at two middle schools design a sustainable community for the year 2020. Cheryl Lane and Lauren Hendricks are leading the class at Edwards Middle School in Clemson while Mark Mussleman and Joy Holshouser lead the class at Macedonia Middle School near Moncks Corner.