Bragbook for March 15

College and Career Institution welding students from Douglas County recently competed in the XCEL North GA Welding Competition. First place winner was Jaime Guevara from Alexander High School and third place was Samuel Jaimes from Lithia Springs High School. Josh Huey, lab assistant for welding instructor Ross Hollon, placed second. Pictured left to right are instructor Ross Hollon, Jaime Guevara, Samuel Jaimes, and lab assistant Charlie Diaz.

College and Career Institution welding students from Douglas County recently competed in the XCEL North GA Welding Competition. First place winner was Jaime Guevara from Alexander High School and third place was Samuel Jaimes from Lithia Springs High School. Josh Huey, lab assistant for welding instructor Ross Hollon, placed second. Pictured left to right are instructor Ross Hollon, Jaime Guevara, Samuel Jaimes, and lab assistant Charlie Diaz.

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Roswell High School Senior Khadija Wade has received the POSSE Scholarship to attend Brandeis University.

Schuyler Nickelberry, a junior at Clark Atlanta University, has won the African American Film Critics Association's national 72-Hour Build-A-Film Challenge, which includes an all-expense-paid trip to Hollywood, California.

A University of North Georgia alumnus and a cadet spent the fall as interns at the White House. Mitchell Fariss from Milton, interned in the Office of Public Liaison. Evan Setter from Atlanta was an intern in Vice President Mike Pence's office.

Bernard Short, a native of Atlanta, GA received a PHD-Music degree from the University of Iowa at the close of the fall 2018 semester.

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the nation's largest youth volunteer awards program honoring students in grades 5-12 for outstanding volunteer service, now in its 24th year, recently named Georgia's Top Two State Honorees for 2019. Anish Bikmal, 17, of Cumming, a senior at South Forsyth High School, co-founded a nonprofit organization that operates a tutoring academy for local students, and uses the proceeds to benefit charities in India serving subsistence farmers, hungry children and people with cataracts. Seth De La Pena, 13, of Alpharetta, an eighth-grader at Fulton Science Academy, started a service group that provides clothing and school supplies to students in need at an elementary school in an area of the Philippines affected by a volcanic eruption early last year.

Michael Henderson, a Wesleyan University student from Decatur, recently received an award from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium.