The Dodgen Middle School Science Olympiad team successfully defended their title at the Georgia Science Olympiad state tournament in March. The Dodgen team edged out Fulton Science Academy to win the title. The team’s advisors…
Wheeler High School’s robotics team, the CircuitRunners, earned more accolades at the state competition. The CircuitRunners won the Judge’s Spirit Award, and 11th grader Amanda Firestone was selected as a Dean’s List Finalist at the…
Wheeler High School recently held a STEAM Symposium—Crossing Curriculum and Making Connections to the Real World. The high-level STEAM projects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) displayed the connections between many subjects and demonstrated practical…
The Odyssey of the Mind team at Ford Elementary School, the first STEM certified elementary school in Cobb County, advance to the 37th World Finals Competition at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. This team,…
Tucked away in the middle of a quiet residential area of Atlanta, the Fernbank Science Center has captured and sparked the imagination of children (and adults) for 50 years. Many students from all across Georgia…
Fifth grade students in Josh McGee’s class are into ‘scene of the crime’ learning. It’s all about inference and critical thinking in this Brumby classroom. A crime scene set up allowed for a police scene to be the…
The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company will host its second Metro Atlanta-area Code Quest competition on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics facility in Marietta, GA. Code Quest is a computer programming competition…
Several students from Cobb brought home high honors at the Piedmont Regional Technology Competition held at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Ga. Students from Sedalia Park Elementary, Tritt Elementary and Hightower Trail Middle School…
Walton High School Junior Aditya Suri earned a $20,000 scholarship from Samsung by developing a mobile app for Android mobile phone users. Suri got the idea for the app after attending Samsung’s Mobile App Academy…
A classroom of East Cobb Middle School STEM students were one of seven schools in North America chosen to do a video chat with Dr. Hadi Partovi in honor of Hour of Code on Friday, Dec….