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Foundation NewsGwinnett County’s Berkmar High School isPAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon State ChampionAcademic DecathlonFounding State DirectorHoward Stroud (back row,far left) joins PAGE GeorgiaAcademic Decathlon StateChampions Berkmar HighSchool following theawards presentation. Teammembers include (backrow, left to right) BrandonBall, Matthew Caldwell,Greggory Rothmeier,Stewart Barnes and CoachIV Bray, and (front row, leftto right) Matthew Treager,Michael Brown, ChrisKnight, Jami Mathewsonand Katie Harazin.For the third consecutive year Gwinnett County’s BerkmarHigh School, coached by IV Bray, is the overall PAGEGeorgia Academic Decathlon (GAD) State Champion andthe Division I (large school) winner. Muscogee County’sColumbus High School, coached by Lina Yates, is the Division II(small school) champion. The announcement came Saturdayevening, Feb. 26, 2005, at the PAGE GAD Awards Banquet, theculminating event of the two-day academic competition.Berkmar High School’s team scored the highest points overall inDivision I and II, and was awarded the Howard StroudChampionship trophy. The team represented Georgia at theUnited States Academic Decathlon NationalFinals held in Chicago, Il., in April. The PAGEFoundation, The UPS Foundation, AppleComputer, Inc., the Georgia PowerFoundation, the Georgia Department ofEducation and The Coca-Cola Company sponsorthe Decathlon. The competition takesplace at Berkmar High School and is hosted bythe Gwinnett County Public School System.Other winners include, in Division I (largeschool), First Runner-up Chatham County’sJenkins High School, coached by William Avila, and SecondRunner-up Muscogee County’s Hardaway High School, coachedby Carmen Kimsey. In Division II (small school), Bibb County’sCentral High School, coached by Ira Joseph, was named FirstRunner-up and Walton County’s Monroe Area High School,Columbus High School’s Decathlon team is the 2005 PAGEGeorgia Academic Decathlon Division II Champion and SecondRunner-up in the Apple Computer Super Quiz Oral Relay. Teammembers include (left to right), Coach Lina Yates, Matt Lord,Brianna Veenstra , Julian Hernandez, Tiffanee Huling , EmilyBurden , Cathryn McCrimmon, Joyce Gallatin, SavannahDonahue, Cameron Tommey and Assistant Coach Jan Carter.Chatham County’s Jenkins HighSchool is Division I First Runnerup.Team members include(front row, left to right) GADCoach Jan Avila, Cordae Latson,Julia Degon, Julia Yu and AnnieBockius-Suywn, and (back row,left to right) Chris Sams, ChrisChampagne, Billy Bishop andGAD Coach Bud Avila (notpictured, teammate Luci Mesco).14 PAGE ONEMay/June 2005
Hardaway High School’s Decathlonteam is the 2005 PAGE GeorgiaAcademic Decathlon Division I SecondRunner-up and First Runner-up in theApple Computer Super Quiz OralRelay. Team members include (left toright) Justin di Feliciantonio, JamieWilliams, Kayla Horofker, Josh Rizzo,Preethi Chidambaram, TonyaGilmartin, Rachel Cabarrus, ArchanaChidambaram, Luyando Handia, andCoach Carmen Kimsey.Bibb County’s CentralHigh School is theDivision II First Runner-up.Team members include:(front row, left to right)Lisa Bui, Julie Bui, TaylorWillingham, Bo Brownand coach Ira Joseph, and(back row, left to right)Sameer Gupta, CotyJones, Jeremy Jones andAndrew Conn.coached by Mindy Dess and BradWilliford, was named as SecondRunner-up.More than 240 high school studentsfrom 27 high schools, representing23 school districts, competedin the academic event.During the competition, studentswere tested in seven contentareas: economics, art, languageand literature, mathematics,social science, music and writtenSuper Quiz. In addition, studentsearned points individually inthree communication events:public speaking, a personal interviewand a written essay. The programis unique because each nine-member team is made up ofthree “A” students, three “B” students and three “C” students.Each year the program features a different overall curriculumtopic. This year’s topic was “Exploring the Ancient World.”On Saturday afternoon, students participated in the excitingSuper Quiz Oral Relay, sponsored by Apple Computer, Inc. Duringthe relay, team members competed in a quiz bowl format, keyingin answers to questions regarding this year’s topic, “Astronomy—From Empty Space to Incredible Universe: The Sky is Not theLimit.” Gwinnett County’s Berkmar High School, coached by IVBray, was named this year’s Apple Computer Super Quiz Oral RelayChampion; Muscogee County’s Hardaway High School, coachedby Carmen Kimsey, was First Runner-Up; and Muscogee County’sColumbus High, coach by Lina Yates, was Second Runner-Up.The decathlon culminated with the PAGE GAD AwardsWalton County’s Monroe Area High School is the Division II Second Runner-up. Teammembers include: (front row, left to right) Mondrekio Robertson, Matthew Chapman, KacieMilligan, Tara Queen and Alice Richardson and (back row, left to right) Coach Brad Williford,Joel Cofield, Stephen Noble, Kyle Queen, Kevin Spears, Billy Diehl and Coach Mindy Dess.Banquet held Saturday evening at the Atlanta Marriott GwinnettPlace, during which the highest-scoring students were awardedboth team and individual medals in the various competition categoriesand the state champion was announced. In addition, aspecial award was presented to The UPS Foundation ProgramManager Scott Fasnacht acknowledging the years of support,through financial donation and volunteer involvement, given byThe UPS Foundation to the PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlonprogram. Berkmar High School’s Coach IV Bray was also citedwith a special presentation as a dedicated and inspirationalDecathlon coach. David Chandley, meteorologist for Atlanta’sChannel 2, WSB-TV, served as master of ceremonies for theawards banquet.Continued on page 16May/June 2005 PAGE ONE 15
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