CCSD Students Earn Top Honors at Elementary School State Science Fair

State Grand Category and First-Place State Winners pictured from left as listed below.

Cherokee County School District students earned top honors at the elementary school State Science Fair!

Twenty-six CCSD students, after earning high honors at regional competition to advance, placed in the top three in their category at the annual Georgia College K-5 State Science Fair recently held at Georgia College & State University.

CCSD students also earned numerous additional prestigious statewide honors including both the Overall Grand Prize for Clark Creek ES STEM Academy fifth-grader Pranav Vasishta and Best of Show honors for Bascomb ES fifth-grader Hudson Gillentine!

CCSD students additionally earned special $50 awards sponsored by Cobb EMC/Gas South and special awards ranging from $25 to $50 from Cherokee County Water & Sewerage Authority (CCWSA).  Cobb EMC/Gas South also generously sponsored the state fair registrations for all of CCSD’s participating students.  

CCSD Grand Category State Winners
•    Caroline Field, Grade 5, Johnston ES, teacher Susan Turco;
•    Hudson Gillentine, Grade 5, Bascomb ES, teacher Jennifer Mendenhall: Additional honor: Best of Show – Elementary, Excellence in Material Science Research, second place in STEM Design Challenge “Lift-Off Rockets” and Sponsor Award: Cobb EMC/Gas South;
•    Nora Porcello, Grade 5, Bascomb ES, teacher Jennifer Mendenhall.  Additional honors: Best of Life Sciences, second place in STEM Design Challenge “Lift-Off Rockets” and Sponsor Awards: Cobb EMC/Gas South and CCWSA; and,
•    Pranav Vasishta, Grade 5, Clark Creek ES STEM Academy, teacher Karen Garland.  Additional honors: Overall Grand Prize and Excellence in Mathematics Research.

CCSD First-Place State Winners
•    Jake Allard, Grade 5, Macedonia ES, teacher Georgia Knowlton.  Additional honors: Excellence in Agricultural Research;
•    Luke Buchanan, Grade 5, Hickory Flat ES, teacher Karina Dean.  Additional honors: Sponsor Award: Cobb EMC/Gas South;
•    Arlo Falconer, Grade 3, Johnston ES, teacher Susan Turco;
•    Rishabh Pandya, Grade 5, Clark Creek ES STEM Academy, teacher Karen Garland.  Additional honors: third place in STEM Design Challenge “Lift-Off Rockets”;
•    Hannah Prosba and Makenna Seckington, Grade 3, Little River ES, teacher Shaniqua Young; and,
•    Darhshan Ramprabu and Gow Ramprabu, Grades 5 and 4, Hickory Flat ES, teacher Karina Dean.  Additional honors: Sponsor Award: CCWSA.

CCSD Second-Place State Winners
•    Ananya Das, Grade 4, Clark Creek ES STEM Academy, teacher Karen Garland.  Additional honors: third place in STEM Design Challenge “Lift-Off Rockets”;
•    Rex Huffer, Grade 3, Boston ES, teacher Susan Stringfellow;
•    Elijah Mullins, Grayson Pressley and Kingston Te, Grade 5, Little River ES, teacher Shaniqua Young.  Additional honors: second place in STEM Design Challenge “Parachute Design”;
•    Tyler Nastasi, Grade 5, Hasty ES Fine Arts Academy, teacher Georgia Knowlton.  Additional honors: Excellence in Earth Science ;
•    Callan O’Leary, Grade 5, R.M. Moore ES STEM Academy, teacher Leo Pilla;
•    Carter Salamone, Grade 4, Avery ES, teacher Katherine Wallace; and,
•    Addie Taylor and Emma Kate Wyatt, Grade 5, Macedonia ES, teacher Georgia Knowlton.    

CCSD Third-Place State Winners
•    JR Calhoun, Grade 4, Liberty ES, teacher Julia Jones.  Additional honors: Sponsor Awards: Cobb EMC/Gas South and CCWSA;
•    Shane Moffitt and Tristan Castillejos, Grade 5, Hasty ES Fine Arts Academy, teacher Georgia Knowlton.  Additional honors: Best of Health & Medical Sciences; and,
•    Ethan Pavsner, Grade 5, Woodstock ES, teacher Kirsten Kern.

CCSD Sponsor Awards Winner
•    Kylie Shakespeare, Grade 3, Hickory Flat ES, teacher Karina Dean.  Cobb EMC/Gas South and CCWSA awards.

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