• A team from Atlanta's Sutton Middle School won the Junior National Academic Championship in New Orleans sponsored by Questions Unlimited, defeating Jackson Prep from Mississippi 420-405, in the first double-400 game in the eight-year history of the competition.
• Jaquilla Reynolds, a seventh grader from Atlanta, was honored for her artwork supporting Georgia's manufacturing industry. Reynolds, who was nominated by Atlanta Technical College, took third place in her division (grades 6-8) of the 2015 Manufacturing Appreciation Week (MAW) student design contest. She received a $100 scholarship at the MAW Governor's Awards Luncheon at the Georgia International Convention Center.
• The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce has awarded North Fulton Hospital the 2015 Partnership in Education Award in recognition of the hospital's partnership with Gwinnett Technical College. Gwinnett Tech's partnership with North Fulton Hospital began five years ago, with the hospital serving as a clinical site for students in Gwinnett Tech's programs in radiologic technology, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, diagnostic medical sonography, echocardiography, and cardiac catheterization. "Clinical rotations are an integral part of our students' education and allow them to learn from and work side by side with experienced health care professionals. Many of these professionals take on a mentorship role for the students, which helps guide them into very successful health care careers," said Jim Sass, dean of health imaging and informatics.
• Thirty-four local elementary school teachers recently completed the first year of Psci-Train, a two-year professional development course taught by University of North Georgia (UNG) faculty to increase elementary students' science achievement. The program began in November 2014 and culminated in June in a weeklong, hands-on series of sessions developed to help the teachers connect content in energy conservation, waves, gravity, sound, light, electricity, magnetism, and thermal energy to their students. The program is funded by a Georgia Department of Education grant that was awarded through the federal Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program. The program pairs UNG with Hall County Schools, Lumpkin County Schools, the Dahlonega-Lumpkin Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce.
• A poster by students at South Hall Middle School in Flowery Branch recently won an automated external defibrillator package in a nationwide contest sponsored by a nonprofit called Project ADAM and HeartSine Technologies. It was one of 11 schools across the country that won the defibrillator and CPR and AED training for up to 12 people. The student posters had to be about the symptoms of, preparing for or surviving sudden cardiac arrest.
• The Atlanta Technical College (ATC) team of Cory Way and Michael Harris placed second in the digital cinema production competition at the National SkillsUSA Championships in Louisville, Ky., June 24–25. The competition was part of the SkillsUSA 51st annual National Leadership and Skills Conference, a showcase of career and technical education students' skills. More than 6,000 contest winners from different states competed in 100 trade, technical and leadership fields. Way and Harris represented Georgia in the highly specialized digital cinema production competition against 22 other state-champion teams.
• Janae Lyttle, of McDonough, a 2015 honors graduate of Union Grove High School in Henry County,received a $1,875 scholarship from Delta Community Credit Union to Spelman College, where she will begin classes this fall. Janae plans to major in biology with the goal of becoming a pediatrician.
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