Foundation News Chamblee Wins PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
State Champion: DeKalb County’s Chamblee Middle School, coached by John Donegan, Cathy Hirsch and Margaret Mitchell 2nd Place: Gwinnett County’s Five Forks Middle School, coached by Dennis Turnham and Angela Howell 3rd Place: Muscogee County’s Aaron Cohn Middle School, coached by Tracy Greenfield, Lisa Seegar and Rosie Cox
the Collegiate Middle Level Association. The academic bowl features teams of students fielding questions on subjects ranging from Georgia history to mathematics, science, literature and the performing arts. Teams compete against the clock
to answer toss-up and bonus questions. The program inspires students to excel academically and develops team spirit. View a video report of the 2016 PAGE Academic Bowl Championship at n pagetv.org and click on “The Buzz.”
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eKalb County’s Chamblee Middle School, coached by John Donegan, Cathy Hirsch and Margaret Mitchell, took top honors at the 2016 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades State Championship. The day began with 24 semifinalist teams from across the state competing in a roundrobin competition. In the afternoon, the eight winning teams competed in a single-elimination session. The competition, held in January at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, was sponsored by PAGE, the PAGE Foundation, the Chick-fil-A Foundation and GCSU. It was hosted by
2016 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades State Champion Chamblee Middle School team members and their coach were joined by presenters: (front row, l-r) co-captain Nevin Aresh, Shanru Xu, co-captain Foster Cowan and Gunter Schroeder; and (back row, l-r) PAGE Foundation President John Varner, coach John Donegan, Ashley Veazey, Sam Grant, Carson Ankeny, Logan Durisch, Ethan Shi and PAGE Foundation trustee and The Telegraph Editorial Page Editor Charles Richardson. Not pictured: coaches Cathy Hirsch and Margaret Mitchell.
4th Place: Columbia County’s Evans Middle School, coached by Ashley Bowles and Kathy Noyce 5th Place: North Gwinnett Middle School, coached by Scott Johnson and Greg Dick 6th Place: Columbia County’s Stallings Island Middle School, coached by Deborah Hundt 7th Place: South Forsyth Middle School, coached by Elizabeth Rushton 8th Place: Catoosa County’s Heritage Middle School, coached by Pam O’Keefe, Denie Pursley and Billie Carlock
March/April 2016
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