ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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Samantha finds inspiration at the beach
July 2012 -
Samantha Varghese, a Georgia eighth-grader, is among the 100 semifinalists in Rand McNally’s America the Beautiful Essay Contest for grades 7-12. Her most beautiful and inspiring place in America is a beach.
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Harini Indrakrishnan wins a prize in North American dance festival
June 2012 -
Harini Indrakrishnan, a 15-year-old disciple of Subathra Sudarshan, won second place in her age group at the Bharathanatyam Dance Competition at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2012.
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Anoushka Misra is the Georgia winner of Doodle4Google
June 2012 -
Anoushka Misra, age 9, is the Georgia state winner in the 2012 Doodle4Google competition. She was invited to go to New York City for the finals, as one of the top 50 artists of the over 114,000 entries in the country.
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Global Impact Awards have Indian connections
June 2012 -
Surya Carpets, Suniva, and St. Joseph’s Translational Research Institute have been honored as winners or finalists for international business in the Global Impact Awards by the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
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Sahr Singh wins National Geographic bee in Georgia
May 2012 -
Sahr Singh at four years old identified countries of the world on the Letterman Show. Eight years later, she won National Geographic state level geography bee in Georgia, answering questions on politics, culture, and environment.
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Asmee Sharma wins writing award in kindergarten
May 2012 -
Asmee Sharma, who wrote a piece titled "My Family BBQ,” was selected as the Gwinnett County Public Schools district kindergarten winner and awarded the Young Georgia Authors Award for Kindergarten.
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Sharon Mathai of Atlanta on The Voice TV show
May 2012 -
Sharon Mathai, born in New York and raised in Texas, moved to Atlanta. After making it to the top 24 on The Glee Project, the 19-year-old became one of five metro-Atlanta contestants on The Voice2 TV show this spring.
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Angele Rishi named a Rising Star Lawyer again
May 2012 -
Angele Rishi has been named for the second year in a row as one of the 2012 Georgia Rising Stars Lawyers by Law & Politics Magazine. Only 2.5 percent of top young "Rising Star" attorneys in Georgia make the list.
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Google Science Fair finalist meets President Obama
April 2012 -
Anand Srinivasan, a 10th-grader at Roswell High School, was a finalist in the Google Science Fair and was invited to the 2012 White House Science Fair, where he got to explain his project to President Obama.
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Local teen sings lead role in opera
April 2012 -
The popular children's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has been made into an opera, and fourteen-year-old Ruben Roy gave a polished performance, acting and singing in the lead role with the Atlanta Opera.
