An educator from Berry College was named Maestro in Outstanding Achievement by Kindermusik International, a music and movement curriculum publisher. Kathryn Nobles is an early childhood specialist and teaches Kindermusik at Berry. She is now one of 300 maestros out of over 5,000 licensed Kindermusik educators.
Four athletes from Fulton County were recognized at the Georgia Positive High School Athlete Awards June 14. Warren Cherry, from Alpharetta High School; Caroline Filan, from Milton High School; Rachel Deese, from Roswell High School; and Madison Swan, from Johns Creek High School, all won Most Positive Athlete awards. In addition, Lou George, strength coach at Westlake High School, won a Most Positive award. Johns Creek High School was recognized as Most Positive High School.
West Hall High School senior football player Zach English was presented with $2,500 from The H.O.P.E. Foundation on June 20. The H.O.P.E. foundation encourages young people to have good character, achieve academic excellence, perform community service and be positive influences for others.
Banneker High School, in Fulton County, will be featured in the second season of The REAL Change Project – Artists for Education. The program will bring celebrities together to celebrate education and the teachers who inspire students to achieve. The TV special will air on CBS August 20.
Thirty Atlanta-area high school students attended the Samsung Mobile App Academy at Georgia Tech June 24-26. The students learned about mobile application development and learned more about career opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.
Jackie Buelow, a student from Richmond Hill High School, won a silver medal at the Microsoft Office Specialist U.S. Champion title competition in Atlanta. She won second place in the Microsoft Word competition, during which students demonstrated their skills using Microsoft Office applications.
Rising senior Sydney Burke has been selected to represent the state of Georgia and Whitefield Academy at the Brandeis University Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine. The summit is a seven-day residential program held at the highly-regarded university for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors who have demonstrated leadership and interest in medicine and science. Only students with exceptional academic records, test scores, and a well-documented interest in a medical or health career were invited to apply for the summit. Burke is one of only 240 delegates selected for the program.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education Deputies from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office took 47 Paulding County fifth grade D.A.R.E. students to D.A.R.E. Camp at the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association Camprtd enjoyed canoeing, swimming, fishing, arts and crafts, nature walks,
field day events, indoor gym games, and a talent show. Each day the D.A.R.E. staff taught leadership lessons on cyber safety, the effects of drug and alcohol impairment, the dangers of over the counter and prescription drugs, how to improve your self esteem, dealing with peer pressure, how to be a young lady/young gentleman, the effects of meth on the brain, and Georgia law and the middle school student.
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