Lucero Alejandra Garcia has been chosen to represent the Adult Education Center at the EAGLE Leadership Institute February 10-12, 2010. The Leadership Institute recognizes and honors those students who have demonstrated superior achievement in adult…
Betsey Kennedy, fifth grade teacher at Big Shanty Elementary, has been named one of Georgia’s Oustanding Elementary Social Studies Educators for 2009. The award, sponsored by the Georgia Council for Social Studies, was presented during…
Grace Tiao, 23, a graduate of the Wheeler High School Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Mathematics, and Technology, was named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars. Ms. Tiao will receive a scholarship to study math…
Volunteers from IBM visited Brown Elementary School in Smyrna Nov. 6 to help beautify the school grounds. The group arrived early on both days, pruning bushes, planting shrubs and performing general cleanup work. The volunteers…
Bullard Elementary School held its annual Science Day Nov. 12, providing students a variety of hands-on science experiments to be involved with! Students in each grade level had a unique set of experiments for their…
Kemp Elementary School donated ‘Family Tubs’ to Powder Springs Elementary School and its community. Each classroom at Kemp created a ‘Family Tub’ full of household and cleaning supplies, toiletries, first aid, cases of water bottles and more. Kemp…
Wheeler High School senior Darpan Patel was recently highlighted on ajc.com’s ‘Get Schooled’ blog. Patel is a student at Wheeler’s magnet program, the Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Mathematics, and Technology and is active…
The Lassiter High School Marching Trojan Band was named Champions of the 2009 Bands of America Northeastern Regional Championship on Saturday, October 24! Twenty-eight award-winning bands from seven states competed in the championships at West…
Students at Clay Elementary were featured in the Oct. 10 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Metro section. The text reads: After turning a liquid Into a solid, Beatrix Ohienmhen, a biology student at Georgia State,…
Clarkdale Elementary students were paid a surprise visit from hip-hop superstar and actor Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges on Nov. 5 ! Through his own Ludacris Foundation, the rapper donated coats for Clarkdale students impacted by the…