The Georgia Department of Education is awarding $899,420 in Opportunity Grants to help school districts expand options and opportunities for their students, State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced. The funds will support opportunities in world languages, fine arts, physical education, summer learning, and Advanced Placement and accelerated learning.
Julie Throne, a teacher at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, and Tiffany Bookal, a teacher at Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross, were among the 95 exceptional educators to receive STEM Research Grants from the Society for Science.
Hope Givers, the award-winning Atlanta-based film company, has announced a call for entries for its 2nd Annual Hope Film Challenge. The Hope Film Challenge is a youth filmmaking competition to help support high school and middle school student filmmakers in producing short-film content to practice their craft and further develop their storytelling capabilities featuring hope and resilience.
State School Superintendent Richard Woods today announced the top 10 finalists for 2023 Georgia Teacher of the Year.
The finalists were chosen from a pool of applicants all previously selected as their school district’s Teacher of the Year. The applications were read by a panel of judges that included teachers, past Georgia Teacher of the Year winners, state and local administrators, community leaders, and others. The finalists were chosen based on the strength of their essay responses.
The 2022 edition of the Atlanta Science Festival gives kids and adults alike the opportunity to dive into a range of topics from environmental science, earth and space, and animals to science and the arts, science and society, and health and the human body. Nature walks, creature encounters, hands-on experiments, science-themed performances, and much more pack the two-week event calendar.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Society for Science named 40 finalists in this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Amongst this year's finalists is Max Bee-Lindgren, a student at Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia.
WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! stars Malik, Zadie, and Zeke—three energetic and creative marsupial siblings who live with their grandmother in her treehouse apartment complex.The playful trio will demonstrate computational thinking for preschoolers, a way of thinking that enables them to solve problems, express themselves, and accomplish tasks using the practices, processes and ideas at the core of computer science.
One may ask, what is the current day significance of a public library? Here are four reasons why public libraries are vitally important and why we should continue to support them.
