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Charleston Early College High School wins award

By Mike Switzer

Published February 3, 2022 at 5:30 AM EST

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Early College High School is a national initiative from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that helps high school students jumpstart their college education while still in high school. And that school in Charleston recently won Innovision’s education award. Mike Switzer interviews Vanessa Denney, principal at the Charleston County School District Early College High School located at Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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