Jacob Padden

Jacob Padden

Clemson Tiger Statue: You have to play the part.

Summer intern Jacob Padden marks his last day at The Buzz office with lunch out at La Tapatia Mexican Restaurant.

Both seniors at Lamar High School, Jacob (at right) and Mark will work together to report on happenings at their school for the School Buzz blog. (Photo:www.hartphoto.com)

Some of our School Buzz editors and reporters gather to brainstorm for the upcoming year. Bottom row, from left: Jacob Padden, Lamar High School, and Ari Rotenberg, Carnegie Vanguard High School. First bleacher, from left: Rachel Blakes, Second Baptist, and Madison Tebbe, Memorial High School. Second bleacher, from left: Brittany Aaronson, Episcopal High School, Mackenzie Ward, Bellaire High School, Brittney Reese, St. Agnes School, Nancy Nguyen, Memorial High School. Third bleacher, from left: Amara Nelson, Westbury Christian, Cyrus Pacht, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Adam Hoffman, Robert M. Beren Academy, and Cara Maines, St. John’s School. Fourth bleacher, from left: Mark Cox, Lamar High School, Morgan Goldsmith, St. Agnes School, Taylor Brittain, Stratford High School, Megan Routbort, St. John’s School. Top bleacher, from left: Sam Kretzschmar, Strake Jesuit, and Nick Ferguson, St. Pius X High School. (Photo: www.hartphoto.com)

Buzz interns just had to take a photo in front of the bee in honor of The Buzz. (From left) Maddie Tebbe, Alex Daily, Jacob Padden and Mark Cox. 

Mark Cox and Jacob Padden try out the controls in the Extreme Bugs exhibit.

Interns Mark and Jacob crawled through the clear tube that went through the piranha exhibit. Luckily, they got out before the herd of shouting children came running through the tunnel.

Jacob Padden enjoys traveling and trying new and interesting things such as when he held this alligator at the Everglades National Park in Homestead, Florida. The trainer said, “I’ve only been bit twice in my 15 years of training alligators.” He had the scars to prove it.