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2010 Chelseay Parks- National Merit Scholar
2010 Horatio Alger Scholarsip- Jessaca York
2010 Star Student- Widly Coulanges
2010 State Science Bowl-Congratulations to our team for placing 6th in the State in the Science Bowl Competition. Our team consisted of Michael Carmona, Widly Coulanges, Eric Deutsch, Orayne Mullings, Bryant Brough and Alex Alvarez (Sponsor).
2010 State HOSA Results
Biomedical Debate Team - Lorentz, Candice James, Orayne Mullings, Ridwan Hassen- 4th
Biotechnology – Stacy Grant - 1st
Epidemiology - Bryant Brough- 1st
Extemporaneous Speaking – Orayne Mullings - 1st
Extemporaneous Speaking - Jonathan - 2nd
Extemporaneous Writing – Savanna George- 1st
Forensics – Jessaca York, Danyel Jones - 4th
HOSA Bowl – Neda Norouzi, Armin Behroozi, Jiby Yohanan - 1st
HOSA Bowl – Emma Edoga, Chinonso Ogojiaku, Justin Nde, Tremelle Pate - 2nd
Human Growth and Development – Ginny Ulmer - 2nd
Medical Math – Eric Branch - 4th
Medical Reading – Jessica York, Victoria Bertschy, Brooke Rivers - 3rd
Medical Terminology – Ajoke Kareem - 1st
Pathophysiology – Praveen Kumar - 4th
Prepared Speech - Ehijie Aikhuele- 1st
Public Health Emergency Preparedness – Mbare Konte, Anye Nde, Chu Chu Onyeukwu, Arome - 2nd
Public Health Emergency Preparedness – Jordan Manning, Candace Page, Ify Orizu, Tarryn Tertulien- 3rd
Researched Persuasive Speaking - Leslie Walters- 1st
Our Students
Congratulations to Brandon Greene, Class of 2009, a semi-finalist for the Gates Millennium Scholarship. We wish you well at Vassar College.
Congratulations to Widly Coulanges, Class of 2010, our Georgia Governor's Honor Program recipient in Mathematics. Widly's research focus was on generating a computer-based algorithm to solve Richard Karp's Clique problem. While at Governor's Honors this summer, he also created other computer programs and learned the art of cryptology. He chose to minor in French.
Congratulations to Chelseay Parks, Class of 2010, our National Merit Scholar SemiFinalist. Approximately 1.5 million students from 22,000 high schools around the country compete for this honor. We wish her luck as she competes to be a National Merit Scholar Finalist.
Congratulations to Armin Behroozi. Mr. Behroozi, Class of 2011, who placed 2nd in the American Chemical Society Essay contest. Mr. Behroozi was recognized at the Herty 75 Future Medalist Symposium at Kennesaw State University as on of the four winners in Georgia for the American Chemical Society Herty 75 Essay Contest.
Kenya DeBarros, Class of 2013, has been accepted into Spivey Hall for Orchestra. "I am extremely glad that I have been accpeted into the program. I am looking forward to not only performing, but furthering my talent through the experience. This is my goal and it is exciting to know that I have this opportunity."
Congratulations to our Magnet Students Akousa Agyire, Savanna George, Tarryn Tertulien, Danyel Jones, Orayne Mullings, Gozie Nkemka, Ariel Lanier, Channelle Washington, Dakota Thames, and Ebony Thompson in being awarded the State Farm/MADD Good Decisions Service-Learning Grant. They will be working with our local elementary schools and middle schools to teach them about seat belt safety.
Top 10 in the State- Science Bowl
South Cobb High Schools inaugural Science Bowl team finished in the Top 10 in the 2009 Georgia Science Bowl in Savannah. The five students competing were Wisdom Egekonye, Charlie Chapman, Eric Deutsch, Anik Khan and James Mungin.
HOSAHOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) is a student organization whose mission is to promote career opportunities in health care and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. Our schools prides itself on having one of the best HOSA clubs in the nations. Here is some news from our HOSA club during the 2008-2009 school year.
Armin Behroozi - HOSA state officer - Regional Representative
Ruku Machiwalla - HOSA state officer - Vice President
Jiby Yohannon - 3rd in the nation in HOSA Persuasive Speaking
Mari-Lynn Arbir - 2nd in the nation in HOSA photography
Savanna George - Honorable mention in the state in HOSA extemporaneous writing
Stacy Grant - 4th in the nation in HOSA Biotechnology
Bryant Brough- Honorable mention in nation in HOSA epidemiology
Herty 75 Medalists Symposium
The Academy of Research and Medical Science Junior class attended the American Chemical Society Herty 75 Symposium at Kennesaw State University on September 18, 2009. Students got to meet and hear from the 2009 Herty Medalist, Dr. Craig Hill of Emory University. Students also toured the science and nursing facilities.
We are pleased to annouce the following students have been selected to participate oin Project 2400. Project 2400 is a strategic partnership between Cobb Chamber of Commerce and the Cobb County and Marietta City Schools to enhance our students SAT scores. The participants are: Ehijie Aukhuele, Dennis Azandria, Armin Behroozi, Emma Benson, Lachelle Blakley, Juaquina Carter, Miles Farmer, Rachel Green, Chelsea Hicks, Raven Hiram, Mbare Konte, Joel Lopez, Candace Mabry, Rukhsar Machiwalla, Anaramis Morales, Brianna Moses, Dania Murrell, Neda Norouzi, Uchenna Odihe, Ifedinma Orizu, Paris Rainey, Johnathan Smith, Lance Stallworth, and Jiby Yohannan.
Our Teachers
Dr. Ellen Katzowitz (Medical Science/Biotechnology), Dr. Donald Gutstein (Medical Science/Anatomy), Mr. Alex Alvarez (Research), and Mr. Johnny McCord (Physics) participated in the 10th Annual National Case Study Teaching in Science Conference September 24-26, 2009 in Buffalo, New York. During the two day conference, our teachers attended workshops and collaborated with professors from top universities around the nation including the distinguished Dr. Kipp Herreid.
