Georgia Academic Decathlon
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High Wins Sixth GAD State Championship
The 2016 PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon State Champion Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School team members and their coaches are joined by award presenters at the PAGE GAD Awards Banquet. Pictured: first row (l-r) PAGE Foundation President John Varner, Coach Lisa Beck, Alaina Joyner, Valerie King, Selma Kajtazovic, Binal Patel, Traci Gray, Oglethorpe Power Community Relations Coordinator Mary Long and PAGE Executive Director Dr. Allene Magill; and second row (l-r) Coach Ian Beck, John Christopher, Jacob Elliott, John Muina, Ben Harden, Addison Smith and Abigail Follett. Long presented a $1,000 donation on behalf of Oglethorpe Power to the GAD State Championship team to help defray their travel expenses to the USAD Nationals Competition.
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atoosa County’s Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School won the 2016 PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon State Championship. It is the sixth time the high school has captured the top honor. The team, which scored the highest number of points overall,
was presented with the Howard Stroud Championship Trophy at the PAGE GAD Awards Banquet, the culminating event of the two-day competition. As state champion, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe competed as Georgia’s representative at the annual U.S. Academic Decathlon
Awards were presented to the overall highest individual scorers in the Honors, Scholastic and Varsity divisions. Pictured: (l-r) Scholastic gold medalist John Muina, Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High (Catoosa); Honors gold medalist Angad Joshi, Parkview High (Gwinnett); and Varsity gold medalist Austin Key; Hardaway High (Muscogee). 30 PAGE ONE
National Competition in Anchorage, Alaska, in April. The GAD state championship, held each February at Berkmar High School in Lilburn, is sponsored by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, the PAGE Foundation, the Chick-fil-A
Members of the Academy of Kuchipudi Dance enchanted the audience with traditional Indian dances. The performers are (l-r) Suma Yellamraju, Surya Samasritha Akella, Manvitha Manyam and Smriti Suresh. May/June 2016
