Four Woodward Academy students, selected from more than 700 entries, have been selected to exhibit their artwork in the Atlanta High School Art Exhibit at the 2014 Dogwood Festival: senior Lillian Duong for painting, junior Sasha Litovchenko for painting, junior Gracie Demarest for photography and senior Rachel Etheredge for photography. For the National Scholastic Art Awards, juniors Mia Gill and Joseph Rabun received silver medal for their artwork, and middle school students Rachel Snapperman and Teagan Fritts received silver medals for their photography. A ceremony will be held at Carnegie Hall in June to honor all national award winners.
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Thirty-nine Fulton County students, representing 29 projects, recently won first place awards at the 2014 Georgia Educational Technology Fair held in Macon. Sixty-six projects advanced from the Fulton-level fair to the state competition, with nearly half of those projects resulting in a first place finish. To be eligible for state competition, students had to win first place among 15 categories at the system-level fair.
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Roswell North Elementary Foundation and Roswell North Elementary School Principal Kindra Smith announced that Carl Black of Roswell Buick & GMC Dealer pledged $10,000 to sponsor the annual Spring Soiree, which was held March 29 at Founder's Hall in historic downtown Roswell. The annual event supports academic initiatives at Roswell North Elementary School including technology enhancements, teacher training, curriculum-based science and math education, as well as supplied and lessons for RNE's Licata Science Lab, the first community-funded science lab in a Fulton County elementary school.
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Andy Rodriguez, a junior at Pinecrest Academy, earned a top composite score of 36 on a recent ACT test. Nationally, among test takers in the high school graduating class of 2013, only 1,162 of 1.8 million students earned a composite score of 36. Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student's composite score is the average of the four test scores.
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On March 29, six Odyssey of the Mind teams from Woodward Academy qualified to advance to the World Finals at Iowa State University on May 28. The state of Georgia will send a total of 32 teams to World Finals. Four Woodward teams received a first place finish in their divisions, with two teams earning a second place finish. Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Tonya Milton, fourth-grade teacher at Woodward's North campus in Johns Creek and assistant Odyssey of the Mind director, was inducted into the Georgia Odyssey Coach's Hall of Fame at the state tournament on March 29.
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