School News

Kennesaw State Grad Named Fulbright Scholar

Recent Kennesaw State University (KSU) graduate Sydney Tomlin has earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English to students in a Model United Nations program in Spain starting in September.

The Kennesaw resident recently received an English Teaching Assistant award through the Fulbright program and will spend the upcoming academic year with high school students with Madrid’s Global Classrooms (Model UN) program. She is one of 30 grant recipients out of 2,000 English teaching assistants in Madrid. Tomlin graduated from KSU in May Sydney Tomlin with a degree in modern language and culture, with a concentration in Spanish and foreign language education, and did her student-teaching at Kell High School. While she prepares to move to Spain in September, she will be working as the lead Spanish teacher for Horizons Atlanta’s summer program at KSU.

Carina with, from left, officer B.K. Moore, officer M.R. Bartlett and Sgt. C.L. Pintacuda.

Six-year-old Carina of Acworth spent her birthday by helping the Cobb County Police Department raise funds for the annual SWAT Blue Santa Program, which partners with Cobb elementary schools to provide Christmas gifts for kids who might not receive any. The aspiring police officer asked her friends to donate to Blue Santa instead of giving her a birthday present. To celebrate, 25 kindergartners visited Precinct 1 for a tour and got to meet the K-9 unit as well as the firefighters working at the adjacent fire station. At the end of the day, Carina had collected more than $400 from her friends to donate to the program. To make a donation to the program, contact the Cobb County Public Safety Foundation at info@ccpsf.org or visit www.CCPSF.org.

Cobb Schools Honored for Music Education

Cobb County Schools has earned a reputation for being committed to music education, and that commitment has led to the district being designated among the Best Communities for Music Education in the nation for the 20th year by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation. This year’s awards program was designed to honor schools that demonstrate outstanding achievement in providing music access and education to all students and to celebrate schools and districts adapting, innovating and persevering in the face of change.

Cobb 4-H’ers Head to State Competition

Cobb 4-H had 34 seventh- through 12th-graders compete at the District Project Achievement public speaking contest at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in March, and nine of the high school 4-H’ers will represent the county at the state contest in July.

Local students who will participate in the state competition are Emma Bayer of west Cobb, Cobb Horizon Academy; Venya Gunjal of Kennesaw, Wheeler High School; and Swami Kajale, North Cobb High School.

Project Achievement highlights students’ hard work, talents and success and includes two portions – a portfolio that highlights a 4-H’er’s work in a project area within a calendar year and a presentation on a topic of their choice within their selected project area.