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04/09/2018
For Brookwood High School senior Jacob Taylor, art is more than a hobby — it’s a passion.
“I’ve always loved art,” Taylor said. “I always would be in art class at school trying to test out different mediums to find out what I want to do.”
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04/09/2018
Many students who pay a visit to the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta go to the see the sharks, penguins and various underwater creatures. However, for a group of 12 girls from Sweetwater Middle School, the purpose of visiting the aquarium was to learn more about STEAM: science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
Heidi Turcotte, manager of teaching and learning at the Georgia Aquarium, said the aquarium received a grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation in 2017 with the goal of providing a community program that would educate students. The grant, worth more than $14,000, supported a week-long remote-operated vehicle camp for the Sweetwater students and two school instructor chaperones.
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04/09/2018
Norcross Elementary School art teacher Bobbie Adamczyk is spearheading an effort to turn a bland, brown retaining wall located on Mitchell Road into a mosaic that will highlight the surrounding community.
Norcross Elementary students and local volunteers began work March 18 on a five-panel cement-board that features mosaics and painted images depicting the seasonal colors of nature, wildlife and plants.
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04/09/2018
Mill Creek senior Katie Kreusel and Grayson senior Lauren Wyton have earned spots in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s Early Entry program.
The Early Entry program offers high-achieving high school seniors early acceptance into the professional pharmacy program and will allow Kreusel and Wyton to avoid the competitive pharmacy school application process that normally occurs during a pre-pharmacy major’s junior year of college.
04/02/2018
Easter Sunday at Berkmar High School was anything but a normal day, it was Huncho Day.
Donning a Berkmar High School name tag that read “Principal Huncho,” former Berkmar quarterback Quavious Marshall — known more popularly as “Quavo” from the Atlanta-native rap group Migos — greeted fans and local Berkmar cluster students after they completed football drills with new Patriots head coach Willie Gary.
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04/02/2018
Thinking outside the box is something that 15-year-old Faiz Imran has used to form and serve as CEO of his own company, all before being able to legally drive a car.
Imran is founder of FI Enterprises and Holdings, which invests in innovative startups and products.
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