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Central Christian School Students Place at Science History Fair By CELIA SHORTT celia@newnan.com
Central Christian School in Sharpsburg, Ga., recently held its yearly science history fair for students in second through 12th grades. “This event has been apart of our school for over fifteen years,” said Shelly T. Smith, academic counselor at Central. “Upper school science students choose a topic of interest to conduct a research project. Students employ the scientific method and conduct a series of experiments to solve a scientific problem. These science projects give students an opportunity to go beyond and build upon the classroom learning.” “High school history projects go along with the class subject … World Geography students do a Nations Project where they decorate a display board and table with information and artifacts from a country of their choice,” she added. “Students in the two latter courses construct dioramas depicting significant historical events occurring during a specific time period.” The projects showcased in this fair give students and the school valuable opportunities. “The school is able to show excellent work with hands-on projects,” said Smith. “The students can do an extensive study of a topic of their choice in the class that they are taking. The science/history fair is a night of ‘show and tell’ for students to display their hard work. It is a night of learning for all those that attend.” The second grade to sixth grade winners from Central Christian’s Science/History:
Par ticipants and winners of the 2016 Newnan Carnegie Library juried storytelling competition included: (in front) First Place winner Frankie Hardin; Jeff Bishop; and Phyllis Graham. (in back) Second Place winner Michael Scott; Gary Welden; Honorable Mention winner Josh Evans and Third Place winner Gene McMichen. Central Christian School student Emily Pogue wins best in show for her science project at the schools’ recent science and history fair.
• Second Grade First Place - (tie) Gavin McCurry and Ethan Chrisman Second Place- Jadenyce Nash Third Place-Vania Vasquez Fourth Place-Bryan Alexander Honorable Mention-David Grayson • Third Grade First Place-Travis Newman Second Place- (tie) Dalton Lanier and Sarah Passow Third Place- Dillon Stiltner Fourth Place- Maddy Arant Honorable Mention: Michael Nalewako and Nicolas Silva • Fourth Grade First Place-Emily Shride Second Place-Hannah Hunter Third Place-Elise Kanianthra Fourth Place-Clay Blackstock Honorable Mention-Mallory Booth • Fifth Grade First Place-Elijah Pogue Second Place-Madison Morge Third Place-Emma Freeman Honorable Mention: Asella Manser and Kalen Baldwin • Sixth Grade
First Place-Haylah Spence Second Place-Louis Gagnon Third Place-Zeke Silva Honorable Mention-Duncan Nicholson Upper school science winners: • Earth and Space First Place-Eden Shepherd Second Place-Aurora Davis Third Place-Christian Kerlin Fourth Place-Savannah Maxwell Honorable Mention- Kyle Argo • Psychology with Scientific Research First Place-Isabella Alcide Second Place-Dominique Frank Third Place-Sydney Pokryfky Honorable Mention-Brittany Moore • Honors Biology First Place-Magnus ForceChris Nugent Second Place-Which Drink Stains Teeth Most-Gabrielle Blevins Third Place-Which Battery
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The Art of Storytelling By MAGGIE BOWERS maggie@newnan.com
The city of Newnan recently held a juried storytelling competition at the local library downtown. The Newnan Carnegie Library offers a storytelling program monthly, and agreed to arrange the competition in celebration of “Georgia Cities Week,” a program coordinated by the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) to showcase and celebrate cities and the many services they provide. The competition was one of several events held throughout the week at the local library in honor of the GMA program.
Several local storytellers participated in the competition and each adhered to the theme, “Go to Town,” focusing on the city of Newnan in each tale. “Ten positions were available for the competition,” said adult program assistant Carol Wilson. “Cash awards were give to first, second and third place winners.” Judges Elizabeth Beers, a local Newnan historian, Maggie Bowers, features editor at The Newnan Times-Herald, and Anne Wallace of the Fayette Chapter of Storytellers used scorecards to rate competitors. Storytellers were judged on physical presence, voice and artic-
ulation, dramatic appropriateness, the level of complexity, an evidence of understanding and the overall performance. “I had a story I was going to tell, but I knew I couldn’t keep it under five minutes, so I am going to just make this story up as I go,” explained Gary Welden to the audience. Welden led the competition with a tale about generations of family and an unfortunate incident involving a goat — one Welden claimed was true — and wrangled a few laughs from listeners. The majority of the tales offered throughout the competition brought
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