Left to right around the table: Sullivan County Director of Schools Chuck Carter, head of Greeneville Middle School career education Michael Bowen, Kingsport City Schools career technical education head Bo Shadden and Alissa Lang, who runs East Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence in STEM. They were playing a Get and Keep Your Job board game Junior Achievement presents in some area fifth grades during the Education to Employment Summit Wednesday in Kingsport.

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The Education to Employment Summit for Northeast Tennessee, called E2E for short, had its eighth annual run Wednesday in Kingsport. Several of Greeneville City Schools' educators were among the 200 people from K-12 and higher education, chambers of commerce, businesses and economic development who attended in a quest to improve the region’s pipeline from education to jobs.