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Prince George students win Lowell Milken Center 2013 Discovery Award

Posted at 1:27 PM, Oct 11, 2013
and last updated 2013-10-11 13:27:09-04

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) - A Prince George County High School teacher and his students won the  Lowell Milken Center 2013 Discovery AwardFirst Place prize. Chris Waugaman and his students were honored for their Unsung Heroes project "We are Newspapermen."

The students "created a a professional-quality website with engaging videos, resources and interactive elements to help visitors discover L. Alex Wilson and the black newspapermen whose heroic attempts to report on civil rights struggles inadvertently became a part of the story," according to the Milken Family Foundation.