Carrboro High School seniors Madeline Gilmore, Molly Scanga and Melina Smith presented at the N.C. English Teacher Association Annual Conference at Wake Forest University last month.
Former CHS English teacher Jeff Carpenter, who works at Elon University, invited the students to present. The students spoke about “Parallel Literary Universes on Facebook and in Textspeak.” During their junior year, the students created a social network that paralleled the social networks in The Crucible.
Gilmore, Scanga and Smith were the only high school student presenters at the conference, at which the majority were education professors.