South Gwinnett High School senior Jha'nai Richardson will have her work included in a bullying anthology released this month and sold on Amazon.com. The release party was held in Massachusetts. Jha'nai was visiting family in the state when she heard about the program and submitted an entry.
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Sydney-Alyce Bourget, a student at Elite Scholars Academy Charter School in Morrow, has been selected as Georgia's Stockholm Junior Water Prize representative for her science project entitled, "The Chronic Toxicity of Acetaminophen on Daphnia magna." Sydney-Alyce's work highlights water quality issues faced by communities. She won an all-expense paid trip to Boston.
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Brookwood High senior Robert "Cole" Hembree and South Gwinnett High senior Asante Farquharson are been awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Snellville Commerce Club. The students are part of their school's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Distributive Education Club of America (DECA) programs. Hembree is president of the DECA chapter at Brookwood. He plans to attend Georgia Gwinnett College and major in biology. Asante is an honor roll student who wants to pursue a career in health care. She is active in her community and recently received a key to the city of Snellville.
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Georgia Perimeter College graduate Tracy-Ann Griffiths has received a $1,500 scholarship to continue taking honors courses when she arrives at Georgia Southern University in the fall. Griffiths' scholarship comes through an Honors Articulation Agreement between GPC and Georgia Southern aimed at increasing the number of students who leave GPC's honors program and take honors classes at a four-year college. GPC and Georgia Southern's partnership is several years old.
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Maurice "Trey" Evans III of Henry W. Grady High School in Atlanta is one of several winners of the Vernon E. Carne Scholarship competition. Maurice has been accepted at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. He is a member of the football and lacrosse teams and won the Scholar Athlete of the Month Award in January. Maurice works for the South DeKalb Family YMCA.
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Creekview High School Beta Club members Lizzie Perrin and Abigail Sherrod recently took top honors in the statewide Beta Club Scholastic Competition. Lizzie won second place for creative writing; and Abigail won first place for special talent, which is opera. The students will represent Cherokee County and the state in the national competition in June.
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