ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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Riverwatch student is Geography Bee champ again!
May 2018 -
Vishal Sareddy, an eighth grader at Riverwatch Middle School, Suwanee (Forsyth County), Georgia, successfully defended his title of Georgia State Geography Champion.
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Aventure Aviation and CocoaTown are Georgia GLOBE Award winners
May 2018 -
Aventure Aviation and CocoaTown were among 40 winners of the Georgia’s GLOBE Awards, which recognize companies selling their products or services to a new country over the previous year.
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CocoaTown is rewarded in Atlanta Metro Export Challenge
May 2018 -
As well as being a Georgia GLOBE Award winner (see previous Newsmaker report), Cocoatown was among the top 10 companies receiving credits from UPS in the March 28, 2018 Atlanta Metro Export Challenge.
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Third consecutive debate victory for Woodward
April 2018 -
Junior Mona Mahadevan and senior Arjun Srinivasan helped earn Woodward Academy's third consecutive Georgia State Debate Championship win. Info also on Praval Kandimalla and Sachi Reddy.
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Three South Asians in Georgia State’s first ‘40 Under 40’
April 2018 -
Sucheta Rawal of Go Eat Give, Manoj Mishra of Amazon Web Services, and Tosif Chouhan of The Chouhan Law Firm were included in Georgia State Alumni Association's inaugural "40 Under 40" Class.
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Sisters win top prize for animation project at GASTC
April 2018 -
In a state-wide Georgia Student Technology Competition, two sisters—Aratrika (Rimjhim) Kar and Urjoshi (Brishti) Kar, won the top prize in graphics animation. They also recently won in Debate.
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Kamlesh Chugh is “Mrs. Bharat Grandmother USA”
April 2018 -
Who says pageants are only for the young? Grandmothers, too, can be glamorous! Just ask Atlantan Mrs. Kamlesh Chugh. She was recently crowned Mrs. Bharat Grandmother USA.
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Georgia Tech professors receive $7.5 million grant from U.S. Navy
April 2018 -
A research team, including Santosh Pande, at Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science received $7.5 million from the Navy to develop a customized attack-resistant software stack.
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Georgians among gold medalists chosen by U.S. Congress
April 2018 -
Congressional Gold Medals will be awarded to 6th Congressional District’s Sravya Ambadipudi of Johns Creek and Dilan Shah of Milton, and 7th District’s Vani Senthil of Duluth.
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India global award for Pundit Gyan Prakash Upadhyay
April 2018 -
The founder and president of Siddhi Vinayak Mandir in Atlanta, Pundit Gyan Prakash Upadhyay, was one of 10 global awardees receiving the U.P. ‘Apravasi Bharatiya Ratna’ award in Lucknow, India.
