2006 Georgia Teacher of the Year(May/June 2005) - Ciclt.net

Foundation NewsPAGE FoundationNames 2005PAGE STARStudent andTeacher▼(Left to right) 2005 State PAGE STAR Teacher Philip Heieraccepts a crystal vase from the PAGE Foundation and a$2,500 award from the Frances Wood WilsonFoundation presented by its Executive Vice PresidentBlitch Ann Bird, and 2005 State PAGE STAR Student LucasBermudez receives a crystal vase from the PAGEFoundation and a BellSouth scholarship of $5,000presented by Carolyn Lovett, BellSouth senior director forexternal affairs and chair of the PAGE Foundation.▼The 2005 State PAGE STAR Student Lucas Bronson Bermudez (left), a senior atGwinnett County’s Parkview High School, and his State PAGE STAR TeacherPhilip Heier (right), an Advanced Placement Physics teacher at Parkview HighSchool.▼The Bermudez family and Philip Heier gather in theGreen Room of WAGA-TV Channel 5 in Atlanta priorto their appearance on the “Good Day Atlanta” newsshow. Seated are (front row, left to right) Lucas,Sonja, his mother; Shannon Rio, his sister; andDiego, his father, and (second row) his STAR TeacherPhilip Heier.Lucas Bermudez, a senior at Gwinnett County’s ParkviewHigh School, is the 2005 State PAGE STAR (StudentTeacher Achievement Recognition) Student. He namedhis Advanced Placement Physics teacher, Philip Heier, as hisState PAGE STAR Teacher. Joseph Song, a senior at GwinnettCounty’s Brookwood High School, was named First Runner-upState PAGE STAR Student and chose Dr. Dan Rawlins, hisAdvanced Placement Biology teacher, as his STAR Teacher.The announcement came on April 20 at the 2005 State PAGESTAR Banquet held at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta.Twenty-eight STAR Student Region Winners were finalists in theculminating event of the STAR program, which began earlierthis year with the naming of 466 STAR Students selected fromparticipating public and independent schools from across thestate. The STAR program is coordinated and sponsored by thePAGE Foundation. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce and theGeorgia Department of Education are co-sponsors. Now in its47th year, the program has honored more than 19,000 studentsand their teachers for academic excellence. This year, 19 of thefinalists scored 1600 on a single administration of the SATexamination.Bermudez plans to attend Yale University, where he will studyLiterature and Mechanical Engineering. As this year’s StatePAGE STAR Student, he was honored with a $5,000 scholarship10 PAGE ONE May/June 2005