Eyoel Binyam, Lea Dulcio, Ayden Endberg, Kwame Gaba, Michael Hall, Nicholas Ives, Tierra Lindley, Sadie Maxwell, Hanna-Karina Mueller, Debora Munoz, Katherine Rhodes, Donovan Richart, Juan Rivas, Elliott Veal, Jr., Andrew Winton of Collins Hill High School have been named Class of 2017 Suwanee Youth Leaders.

Margaret Burnley Kuester of Atlanta has been named a new Samford University Ambassador.

Keely Smith of Alpharetta won first place in the annual Colonial Dames' American Independence essay contest.

Mary Catherine Driskell of Decatur and Devrick Thomas of Loganville won the Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine's Student Bowl.

Aditiben Patel of Riverdale is a finalist for the Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Alyssa Evans of Hiram received an academic merit scholarship to Delaware Valley University.

Ryan O'Donnell of Cumming, Dominique Harris of Dallas, Jennifer Griffin of Kennesaw and Naurothie Lareche of Marietta are members of Valdosta State University's Society for Human Resource Management which won the Superior Merit Student Chapter award.

Taji Steele of Covington, Daniel Rogers of Douglasville, Serena Joseph of Loganville and Sean Reagan of Mableton were named to Seton Hall University's dean's list.

Katherine M. Brewster, Harrison W. Leeson and Lydia C. Podowitz of Atlanta and Lollie B. Newsome of Decatur have been named to the Rhodes College's dean's list.

Tamaya Tompoe of Buford Savannah Word of Stockbridge graduated from University of South Carolina Upstate.