CCSD Celebrates Fall STEM Essay Contest Winners

The Cherokee County School District is celebrating winners of the fourth annual Sixth-Grade Fall STEM Essay Contest!

Cobb EMC & Gas South, a CCSD Partner, sponsors two contests every school year – one in the fall and one in the spring - to recognize student excellence in communicating STEM concepts.  The top essays from each school earn their writers cash prizes.  Congratulations to the winners and their teachers, thank you to Cobb EMC & Gas South, and thank you to our School Board for its laser focus on ensuring our students are learning more, growing more, and achieving more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else!

The first-place $50 prize winners are: of Creekland MS, McNeal Cook; Dean Rusk MS, Vedaant Maheshwari; E.T. Booth MS, Krish Patel; Mill Creek MS, Aria Przeluski; and Woodstock MS, Lily Parker.

The second-place $40 prize winners are: of Creekland MS, Scott Colley; Dean Rusk MS, Manya Shukla; E.T. Booth MS, Jeremiah Harrigan; Mill Creek MS, Ivana Ikedum; and Woodstock MS, Cayden Muller.

Students who earned third through 10th place and $30 to $20 prizes (noted in place order from third to 10th by school) are: of Creekland MS, Kaydence Huber, Aubrey Schuster, Aspen Dodelin, Reyaansh Gautam, Harper Goss, Olivia Smith, Daniel Tobe, Fernando Monroy Cruz; of Dean Rusk MS, Kyler Hyman, Ansley Roberson, Eliana Yeatts, Nora Heath, Aaradhya Guntaka, Logan McDaniel; of E.T. Booth MS, Niethan Jave Calimas, Finlay Hamilton, Jazra Crews, Ricardo Jimenez Brens, Tatum Cockrell, Gauge Gomez, Hudson Heath, Caroline Horn; of Mill Creek MS, Bentley Parrott, Evelyn Westerlind, Alexa Traeger, Annie Nettles, Joselin Avila, Gabriela Castellanos Arellano, Satvika Vaidyanathan, Ivie Pash; and of Woodstock MS, Zachary Morgan, Parker Nicol, Audrey Price, Kariny Palmar Romero, John Kasarhis Paraschis, Marcelo Quesada Cubero, Graham King, and Anthony Reyes.

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