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Group to host a robotics team info seminar Tuesday
MARIETTA - The Kell High School Robotics Team, Southern Polytechnic State University and The Westminster Schools are hosting FIRSTsteps, a seminar to help interested individuals learn how to start, finance and run a robotics team.
The seminar is oriented toward all interest levels, from kindergarten through twelfth grade startups. Students under age 8 can participate in Junior FIRST LEGO League; student ages 9-14 can participate in FIRST LLEGO League. Junior and high school students are invited to participate in FIRST Tech Challenge and high school students are invited to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
The seminar will be conducted on Tuesday at Southern Poly, in building M-100. The free event will begin at 7 p.m., and will last between an hour and an hour and a half. For more information, contact firststeps@kellrobo tics.org, or visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org/.
Students raise more than $6K for charity
MARIETTA - Students at Due West Elementary School in Marietta raised $6,527 for the American Heart Association through Jump Rope for Heart. Emma Chorney was the school's top fundraiser, raising $1,500.
South Cobb student earns Yale scholarship
AUSTELL - Jamila Wynter, a student in South Cobb High School's Academy of Research and Medical Science, will attend Yale University in the fall. Wynter has 4.5 GPA, and in addition to a scholarship to Yale, received scholarship offers from Emory University, Cornell University, Columbia University and John Hopkins University, among other schools.
KSU to sponsor Civil War teachers' workshop
KENNESAW - This summer, Georgia middle and high school social studies teachers will have a chance to explore the great battles that led to the end of the Civil War at a workshop sponsored by Kennesaw State University and the Georgia Humanities Council.
The 2008 Summer Workshop for Teachers, hosted by KSU's Center for the Study of the Civil War Era, will take 30 Georgia teachers on visits to historic sites in metro Atlanta and give them a chance to meet Civil War scholars. The workshop will be conducted on July 9-11.
"Georgia was where the war was decided, and we hope that through the workshop, teachers will be able to stress this when teaching about the Civil War," said Heather Howell, the center's project coordinator.
Teachers will visit Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History and the Atlanta History Center to expose them to primary source materials, Howell said.
"Primary sources give a first-hand, authentic look at what happened, which makes history more realistic for both researchers and students, as opposed to relying on materials from those looking back on events from afar," Howell said.
Please contact Howell at (678) 797-2084 or hho well2@kennesaw.edu for more information.
Student wins literature category in arts contest
AUSTELL - Cassidy Simmons, a fourth-grader at Sanders Elementary School in Austell recently placed first in the state in the Literature category of the Reflections Cultural Arts contests. Simmons wrote about the actions that everyone could take to make the world a better place to live. Her theme was, "If I Can Make a Difference."
This is the fourth-grader's second year to place at the state level; last year, she came in third.
High school student has perfect attendance
KENNESAW - Jennifer Fenton, a graduating senior at Kennesaw Mountain High School, has perfect attendance at Cobb County schools, said her mother, Jan Fenton. The young woman will attend the University of Alabama on a softball scholarship in the fall.
Marietta schools to begin four-day week
MARIETTA - The Marietta City Schools system will move to a summer schedule four-day week, beginning June 13. Most facilities will be closed one day a week, on the Fridays of June 13, 20, 27 and July 4, 11 and 18.
The schedule change will affect all system locations, except for West Side Elementary, Marietta Middle School and Marietta High School, where summer school and camp programs will be operating, said school Superintendent Dr. Emily Lembeck.
Central administrative offices will also follow the four-day week schedule. The school district will return to a regular five-day week on Monday, July 21. Twelve-month employees will continue to work a 40-hour week, but will use an expanded workday schedule in the summer, Lembeck said.
Students chosen as Young Authors' winners
MARIETTA - Two Marietta city students were recently chosen as state-level winners of the 2008 Young Georgia Authors' Competition. Fifth-grader Katie Ault of the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics was a state winner for "Demas and the Dancer," and sixth-grader Cassidy Marie Flood of the Marietta Sixth Grade Academy was a state winner for "The Smell of Fear."
The competition is designed to recognize students for their work in original composition, and to encourage students to develop writing that represents their best efforts.
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