Ciara Carbone, a sixth grader at Davidson Day School, was the winning creator in a logo contest designed to help promote a program at the community center.

Carbone created a logo design for LEARNworks, a new after-school tutoring program at the center. The “Linking Everyone to Achievement Resources Now” program is just one of many educational opportunities the center provides for all ages.

Several students submitted entries in the contest and Carbone’s was selected by judges as the winner. Her design will now be used on the center’s letterhead and Website, and for a large-scale piece of artwork displayed at the center.

While the logo promotes the learning side of the Ada Jenkins Center’s character, another local school project focused on the facility’s ongoing efforts to feed those in need.

The Leadership Club at J.V. Washam Elementary sponsored a food drive to benefit the center during the last few weeks of school. In all, the club collected more than 1,400 cans and boxes of food and delivered the items to the center to help stock the food bank administered by the facility.

The Ada Jenkins Center, operating under the motto “Opening the Doors to Opportunity”, is a multi-purpose community facility that provides a wide range of services focusing on improving thelives of – and providing opportunities for – individuals and families in the region that are facing challenges in their everyday lives.

In addition to offering various educational programs and providing a clearinghouse for food distribution to those in need, the center also offers an assortment of health care services for all ages and provides crisis assistance, child and family services and a myriad of other programs for residents throughout northern Mecklenburg and southern Iredell counties.