Education Briefs

Mary Tipton Woolley, Associate Director of Admissions for Georgia Tech, and Jacqueline Jones Royster, Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, personally delivered 19 early action acceptances to Atlanta International School (AIS) seniors last month. Georgia Tech received 12,000 applications for early action, with an acceptance rate of approximately 45 percent; AIS students were accepted for early action admission at a 70 percent rate.

The Goizueta Foundation has awarded a $1.25 million grant to The Westminster Schools to implement a comprehensive STEAM initiative in its Middle School. Programs and curriculum incorporating STEAM – an approach to learning that integrates the traditionally isolated disciplines of science, technology, engineering, arts and math – are becoming increasingly common in schools across the country. Over the next three years, funding from this grant will specifically support construction of a new 3,400-square-foot innovation space in Clarkson Hall.

Rob Clewley, science and computer science teacher at Ben Franklin Academy, was recently invited by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility to speak at a workshop in Paris on the topic of "automatic code generation in neural modeling." This field of mathematical modeling is used to represent biological circuits in the brain and to better understand their function through biophysical principles.

Pre-K students from the Primrose School of Midtown delivered a donation of over 1,300 non-perishable food items and $1,700 to The Atlanta Community Food Bank to help provide a warm holiday meal to local families in need. Thanks to a generous, anonymous Primrose family the school was able to donate $1,700 to help with the food bank’s holiday efforts.

Pace Academy faculty and staff visited the Center for Civil and Human Rights on Dec 15 The visit marked the launch of a partnership between the school and the Center

Pace Academy has joined forces with the Center for Civil and Human Rights, marking The Center’s first affiliate partnership. The multi-year agreement will create a collaborative environment between The Center and Pace Academy’s faculty, staff and students, providing opportunities in the areas of education, special programming, customized experiences and professional development.