Victoria Adeyemi and Laura Morris of Atlanta were named the Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA 2017 Teen Leader and Volunteer of the Year, respectively.

Nicholas Lankford of Braselton, Lanier Paul of Buford, Hannah Hill and Jeffrey Sneed of Cumming, Davis Bryan of Dacula, AnnDee Priest of Douglasville, Brittany Venzen of Fayetteville, Diana Rausch of Lawrenceville, Christian Pope of Powder Springs and Hayden Francis of Snellville were named to Newberry College's dean's list.

Anna Syfert of Cumming, Courtney Amis of Dunwoody and Ivan Egbunike of Stone Mountain were named to Azusa Pacific University's dean's list.

Amber Hammond of Lilburn won 11th place in the annual Colonial Dames' American Independence essay contest for her paper "A Woman's Perspective on Revolutionary War and Politics".

Jack Beasley, Prashasti Borikar, Grey Brinson, Judith Chang, Ram Chatoth, Harrison Craft, Ami Dave, Cathryn Davis, Eric Delgado, Beckley Froebel, Aryan Gupta, Grant Kersey, Malcolm Hutchinson, Riana Kim, Kipling Len, Anna Masino, Wesley Miller, Olivia Packer, Rohan Patel, Adrian Tate, Jannie Yang and Lillian Zhang of North Gwinnett High School were named Class of 2017 Suwanee Youth Leaders.

Thomas Johnson of Atlanta, Meghan Gordon of Alpharetta and Katherine Krouse of Peachtree Corners were part of the Georgia State Law team that participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition.

Akash Patel and Arya Vishwanath of Woodward Academy were selected to participate in the annual competition, The Nature Show.

Ella Ekman of Grady High School, Kelly Kim of North Atlanta High School and Bella Rossi of North Gwinnett High School were selected as finalists for the "Give, Grow and Be Green" themed bag design contest.