Change Starts Here

By Herb Frazier With two master’s degrees on his resume, Summerville resident Magellan T. Mambou is pursuing dual associate degrees at Trident Technical College because he wants a challenge beyond just teaching high school and college students. For 25 years, Mambou has taught math in South Carolina and in his native Cameroon. A message from a TED Talks presenter, however, led him to imagine a different path. The opportunity to do just that came when he learned about a scholarship named for 19th century attorney, journalist and diplomat Archibald Grimké and funded annually by the Magnolia Plantation Foundation. Mambou is in the first year of a two-and-a-half year plan to earn associate degrees in network systems management and cybersecurity.  “I am trying to work extra so I can finish on time,” he said recently, sitting in the shade of towering oaks at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens . “I decided to go back to school to do something that is fun and do something that could hel