We all met at the institute for advanced learning and Research for a tour of this state-of-the-art facility conducted by Julie Brown. What impressed us most (other than the fact that the architecture creates the impression of standing on the flight deck of Star Treks USS Enterprise) was that the centre draws pupils from the surrounding areas' high schools every day to 'fast-track' their development in areas such as Mathematics and Science. This progressive model is recognised and accredited by local colleges, too. These young Einsteins are then bussed back to their own High Schools for the rest of the day's academic, cultural and sporting programme.
We were then driven to RCATT, the Regional Center for Advanced Technology and Training, which offers manufacturing technical career studies. We liked the 'growing machine' which can produce 3D objects from digital images.
After enjoying lunch at a diner called Short Sugar's and, because we heard that this was where President Obama dined when he was in Danville not so long ago, we thought, "Yes, we can!"
The afternoon was spent at the Tank Museum and, other than seeing a vast variety of war machinery, artillery as well as many different uniforms, we also learned that tanks need to be kept in a refrigerator after opening, because it was absolutely freezing in the museum.
We were then rushed through to Reidsville where we were to appear on live TV! Having had to get changed on the pavement because the station is really no more than a shop window, we impressed the one Rotarian that happened to be watching at the time.
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