ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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TYE Team Regen wins top spot in Southeast Region
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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Top volunteers receive Prudential Spirit awards
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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Shashank and Shruthi bring home five awards from ‘Cleveland Aradhana’
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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Archana Becker wins hospitality industry award
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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Jerome Perera wins National Geographic State Bee – Georgia
May 2016 - Jerome Perera won the 2016 Georgia National Geographic State Bee at the Georgia College of Arts & Sciences, Milledgeville.
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Sharada Jambulapati receives Soros Fellowship
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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Arvin Poddar wins Congressional App Challenge
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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Priyanka Desai is Gwinnett 2016 STAR Student
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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Westminster team wins policy debate
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.
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Anish Araque on winning team for national robotics competition
March 2016 - Anish Araque, age 10, is on a team of students from Lilburn, Georgia, that won Grand Prize in Wonder League Robotics Competition, as well as Best Picture prize for most Oscar-worthy video.