A look at news from area schools, colleges and universities:
*Students at Hall County's Da Vinci Academy came away with a number of awards in the Duck Stamp Contest sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Click here to access a list of the winners.
*Sneha Nagarajan, eleventh grader at South Forsyth High School, has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a President’s Volunteer Service Award. This award, which recognizes Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country, was granted by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program on behalf of the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.
*Gainesville High School had two teams to compete in the Moody's Mega Math Challenge, a prestigious competition for high school juniors and seniors to develop a mathematical model for a real world problem. Team A advanced to the second round of the competition, being one of the 200 teams out of 1,121 total to advance to the next level. Team A included Pratyusha Karnati, Anna Diaz, Stephen McMarrow, and Vraj Patel. Team B included Tyra Newton, Spencer Sumner, Michelle Razo, and Umer Khan Mr. Chandra Karnati, a math teacher at GHS, who served as the teams' mentor. Read more about the competition here.
*South Forsyth High School student Christine Yang has won the AATG/Pädagogischer Austauschdienst Study Trip Award to Germany. Christine was one of 44 students selected out of 26,500 students to win this award.
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/4/524644/education-news-roundup