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Areej Hussein is held on the shoulders of her cheering family after graduation. Her brother, Mohamed Hussein, is at right and cousin, Abeer Ali, lifts her onto her shoulder. Her cousin Mohamed Ellabib, 13, is in the foreground carrying her diploma. Students spend time with friends and family after their graduation ceremony as part of the first graduating class of the STEM Early College at N.C. A&T. Hussein has big plans too, "I will be studying at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill as a pre-med student. I plan on majoring in Biology and pursuing two minors in entrepreneurship and Arabic. I also plan to study abroad in college. I will then go to medical school. Im still debating between becoming an endocrinologist or general surgeon. I plan on working here for sometime and later working over seas in the Arabian gulf. I also want to start my own hospital in Sudan in my later years. Later in life, I also want to join Doctors Without Borders." The commencement ceremony was held in Harrison Auditorium on the A&T campus, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in Greensboro, NC. Forty-two graduates completed high school in two years and will enter college with 60 hours of course credits. The science/technology/engineering/math-focused school was founded in 2013 with more than $1 million in support from Greensboro, NC-area companies, foundations and organizations, to prepare students for careers in fields such as engineering, renewable energy and biomedical sciences. Graduates will further their education at schools such as NC A&T, NC State, Duke, Princeton, Cornell and the Naval Academy. JERRY WOLFORD / Perfecta Visuals

