ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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July 2016 -
Gwinnett's National Merit Scholars include Priyanka Desai of Peachtree Ridge High, Victoria Joshi from North Gwinnett High, Anima Shrestha of Parkview, and Simran Modi of GSMST (UGA Scholarship).
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June 2016 -
Team Regen, a group of high school TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE), won the top award at the TYE High School Entrepreneurship competition for their approach to a problem of burn victims.
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June 2016 -
Georgia’s top two youth volunteers of 2016, Devneet Singh, 17, and Damācia Howard, 13, were honored in the nation’s capital at the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.
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May 2016 -
Young musicians Shruthi Santhanam and Shashank Ganeshan came home with honors from the prestigious annual Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival of Carnatic music and dance, held in Cleveland, Ohio.
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May 2016 -
Archana Becker, the owner/founder of Atlanta’s Bhojanic Restaurant, has been honored by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation with a ‘Faces of Diversity’ award.
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May 2016 -
Jerome Perera won the 2016 Georgia National Geographic State Bee at the Georgia College of Arts & Sciences, Milledgeville.
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May 2016 -
Sharada Jambulapati received a 2016 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship to support her work towards a JD at the University of California, Berkeley.
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April 2016 -
High school teammates Ryan Cobelli and Arvin Poddar won the 2016 Congressional App Challenge for Georgia’s 11th Congressional District. Their app will be displayed at the US Capitol.
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April 2016 -
Priyanka Desai of Peachtree Ridge High School earned the title of top Gwinnett 2016 STAR Student. STARs from other schools: Berkmar’s Mohammad Awan, Brookwood’s Naisa Rahman, and Meadowcreek’s Plabani Sharif.
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March 2016 -
The Westminster Schools team of Anish Dayal from Milton, Georgia, and Harrison Hall from Atlanta, won the national Barkley Forum for High Schools (BFHS) “Policy Debate” Tournament.
