While many youths continue their summer plans to sit comatose in front of the television, a group of 25 are tucked away in a laboratory, mixing and testing chemicals.
DuPont’s First Chemical subsidiary awarded over $48,000 in scholarships and grants to local high school students and nonprofit groups at their annual Community Awards Banquet.
First Chemical, a DuPont Company, has called Jackson County home for more than 40 years. Today the company has embraced the new trend of “sustainability,” or environmentally responsible manufacturing.