Johnson Honored as Female Athlete of the Week

 

Congratulations to Centennial Lady Knight lacrosse player Kayla Johnson honored as Female Athlete of the Week.  Read all about Kayla and our successful lacrosse season in the links to the Neighbor Newspapers.  Congratulations, Kayla!!

 

http://neighbornewspapers.com/view/full_story/24986895/article-Centennial-continues-success-in-girls--lacrosse?instance=roswell
 

http://neighbornewspapers.com/view/full_story/24986849/article-Female-Athlete-of-the-Week-Kayla-Johnson?instance=roswell

 

 

AP Biology Students Create Transgenic Organism

 

Today Mr. Kuhn’s AP Biology students are celebrating their creation of a transgenic organism (organism with genes from more than one species). 

The students engineered a gene from a jellyfish for phosphoresence (glowing green—called pGLO) into E. coli bacteria. In order for the gene to be expressed, an intricate procedure had to be followed to heat shock the bacteria to take up the gene into its DNA. Then the bacteria had to sense the presence of a sugar in the growth medium, and use it as a switch to turn on the newly acquired gene for pGLO. Those bacteria that took up the gene but did not have the sugar switch present in their growth medium grew only with a white color. 

Congratulations on this amazing lab achievement!

 

 

Swiss Exchange Students Arrive at Centennial

Centennial’s Swiss Exchange Program began last Tuesday night with the arrival of 13 students and 2 teachers from  Les Creusets.  Swiss students will be treated to Centennial hospitality, time with their host families, and many special trips to Atlanta landmarks, including the Martin Luther King Center, the Varsity, and the Roswell Ghost Tour.  

Johnson Wins National Achievement Scholarship

 

 

 

Congratulations to Evan Johnson who was selected as the winner of a National Achievement $2500 Scholarship.  More than 160,000 students who took the 2012 PSAT/NMSQT entered the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program and also requested consideration in the National Achievement Program, in which only Black Americans participate. Last fall, some 1600 participants were named Semifinalists.  Approximately 1300 of them fulfilled requirements necessary to become Finalists.  All winners of the more than 800 National  Achievement Scholarships, worth about $2.5 million, are being chosen from the group of outstanding Finalists. 

 

 

 

Schoenblum Art Selected for

Washington Congressional Art Gallery

 

 

This past weekend, Kevin Schoenblum was awarded first place in the Congressional Art Contest for our congressional district.  The award includes a $10,000 scholarship to the Art Institute of Atlanta, a $3000 scholarship to SCAD, and two first class tickets to a Congressional reception in Washington, DC, to be held in mid June.  At the Congressional reception, he will meet Representative Tom Price, who chose his entry as the winner, and the piece entitled "Hugin and Munin" will hang in the Congressional Art Gallery for the next year. Kevin’s same piece of art won "Best in Show" at the Georgia State Fair this year and First Place in the Fair's theme category. This piece of Kevin's art was inspired by a simple suggestion his art teacher, Mr. Riggins, gave to him to investigate, research and interpret. Congratulations to both Kevin and Mr. Riggins.

 

Centennial Students Win Video Contest

 

 

Congratulations to Career Tech/BVP 2 students Kendrick Washington (Left), Ariel Turner, and Mykal North.  These talented Centennial Knights competed against students from Bartow, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Paulding, and Rockdale counties in Metro North's "Fog Clogs!" Video Contest. Their entry "The Clogs" won 3rd place and a $500 cash prize. Centennial will receive $250 and the team will split the other $250.

 

Model UN Wins Award of Excellence in NYC

Twenty three students from Centennial earned the “Award of Excellence” for both the overall competition and for Research and Preparation after competing against over 3,500 students from over 25 countries at the National High School Model United Nations Conference in New York from March 4^th – March 8^th. In addition to these prestigious awards, Centennial had four students who were asked to speak before the conference to represent their individual committees. Those students are Monica Bhatia, Trisha Dalapati, Ben Bradley, and Sohil Shyamsundar.  Congratulations!

 

Hosseini Hired After Internship

Centennial TAG Intern Zack Hosseini has completed his internship hours with Atlanta Workshop Players for this semester; however, AWP immediately hired him to do project work for them while school is still in session.  During the summer, he will be a salaried employee and work the summer camps that they hold. Pictured:  Zack (third from the left) is pictured with AWP co-workers.

 

Governor's Honors Finalists Announced

Congratulations to these Centennial students who were offered an invitation to the Governor's Honors Program (GHP) this summer. Only 1% of sophomores and juniors in Georgia are nominated to the state level for the program.  GHP is a cost-free, four-week, summer residential program designed to provide intellectually gifted and artistically talented high school students challenging and enriching educational opportunities.  Students are first nominated in one of twenty areas by their teachers.  Along with completing an extensive application process, students are interviewed at the district level, and their skills are evaluated by essay, Socratic seminar, artwork, or performance.  From there, students are selected to go on to the state level for another set of interviews and evaluations to select the state finalists.  Pictured:  Marisa Beasley - Art; Ben Bradley - Social Studies; Sophia Steinberg - Spanish; Margaret Howell - French; Amanda Hamilton - Music (viola); Alex Yankey - Communicative Arts (English).

Great Season Start for Centennial Lacrosse

 

 

Article on Centennial Lacrosse team

Pictured: Alex Prescott

http://www.neighbornewspapers.com/view/full_story/24869023/article-Centennial-off-to-good-start-in-defense-of-championship?instance=roswell

 

 

Austin Prescott (SR) is the Neighbor Athlete of the Week

http://www.neighbornewspapers.com/view/full_story/24868883/article-Male-Athlete-of-the-Week-Austin-Prescott?instance=roswell

 

 

 

Students Recognized for Academic Achievements

 

 

Students who had a cumulative average of 94 or above were invited to attend the Principal’s Honor Roll Breakfast this month.  PTSA hosted the event, and Ms. Crumbley congratulated the students for their excellent work. This photo captures just one group of students who attended.

 

 

 

 

 

CHS Chorus Travels to NYC

 

The Centennial Chorus traveled to the “Big Apple” March 26^th-30^th with Chorus Director Chelsea Burney and Drama Director Terri Howard. While in New York, students attended a Musical Theatre workshop where current Broadway actor James Brown and conductor T.O. Sterrett worked with students to learn the music and choreography to “One Short Day” from Wicked.  In addition, students toured Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall, visited Central Park, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and the new World Trade Center Tower 1, and saw "The Lion King" on Broadway.