Education Briefs

The journalism program at Grady High School in Midtown has won the 2015 Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Crown Award for its student newspaper, The Southerner, and its culture magazine, Nexus. It’s been a banner year for The Southerner, which also brought home the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Award and the Quill and Scroll Gallup Award.

The International Community School (ICS) in Decatur has been doing a lot of its learning inside a truck in the parking lot. Called STE(A)M Truck, this innovative mobile lab inspires children to learn science, technology, engineering, arts and math by bringing the tools, equipment and mentors directly to their school. The first truck was launched last year with a grant from the Blank Foundation, Home Depot Foundation and Cognizant Inc. For 20 days during March and April, ICS students in third through fifth grades learned about sustainability through activities such as recycling materials into artwork, creating games and building a working radio.

The Lovett School recently hosted the second annual Father/Son Dinner for Upper School boys and their fathers/guests. The purpose of the event was to celebrate the distinctive importance of the father/son relationship and the importance of cross-generational relationships. Five seniors shared personal testimony about their relationship with their fathers and the guest speaker was former NFL quarterback Archie Manning. Manning spoke to the boys and their guests about the importance of leadership and lessons learned over a lifetime in football and as a father to three boys.

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