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DEAR HARRIETTE: A woman I worked with for many years is retiring, and our company plans to honor her with a farewell dinner. It is a company tradition — not a requirement — that each department head will give a speech about the retiree at the dinner.

DEAR HARRIETTE: I work a fulltime job for a startup company, but I do product promotion through social media on the side. As a freelancer, I get paid hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars for my social media work. When my company learned that I do pretty well with my independent work, they were impressed.

Arayla Johnson shows off her finished pumpkin chunker and prepares to give it a test at the STEM Day held for students in grades K-5. SciTEC, the HUB and the division of Curriculum, Instruction and Learning within the College of Education at Louisiana Tech collaborated to host a STEM Day that welcomed 70 students. They built straw rockets, worked with Sphero and built pumpkin chunking catapults.

The Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science (COES) has established the SUCCESS Scholars Program to provide scholarships and co-curricular activities for outstanding engineering students beginning in the upcoming academic year.