Maurice Hickman won first place in the American Institute of Architecture -- Atlanta competition. Hickman is a student at Atlanta public schools' South Atlanta Computer Animation and Design. The competition required students to design an alternative to the current FEMA trailers. Hickman beat out more than 90 other students from across the state. He earned a $2,000 scholarship.
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The Stone Mountain/Lithonia Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority recently awarded $6,000 in scholarships to the following high school graduates: Shelby Ashley, Brianna Brooks, Caambridge Horton and Julia Guinyard, Southwest DeKalb High School; Yasmeen Stokes, Chelsea Mitchell and Tavia Bell, Carver Early College; Evonne Bazemore, Miller Grove High; Simone Wood, Tri-Cities High; and Janae Jackson, Stephenson High.
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Four students from Clayton County's Morrow High School won the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship this year. Morrow's winners are: Courtney Askew, who will attend Agnes Scott College; Thu Doan, Mercer University; Thu Nguyen, Emory University; and Darius Phelps, University of Georgia. The scholarship pays for students' entire educational costs.
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Twelve seventh graders at The Epstein School qualified and chose to apply for the 2011 Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP). Of the students tested, 100% scored high enough on the ACT test to receive state recognition and/or be eligible to participate in their summer academy. The students are: Avi Botwinick, Dotan Brown, Emily Duner, Sydney Feinsmith, Eliana Greenwald, Elayna Harris, Seth Hochman, Max Marcovitch, Alexa Rakusin, Sydney Shatz, Julia Stern and Karin Videlefsky. Duke University's Talent Search is the largest program of its kind in the nation. Students are identified based on their standardized test scores.
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Two Gwinnett students earned the state's highest scores on the National French Exam. The test is given nationally to assess student's mastery of the language. The students are: Michael Le of Archer High School and Stephane Hosty of Brookwood High School.
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Providence Christian Academy student Taylor Henry, of Lilburn, was recently honored at the 88th annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The awards, run by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, is the oldest and most prestigious national program offering early recognition and scholarships to creative teenagers. There were more than 185,000 submissions in 29 categories including poetry, humor, novel writing, painting and photography. Henry, 16, was awarded a silver medal for a painting titled, "A Certain City with a Certain Name" and was among 50 honorees from Georgia.
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