CCSD Elementary Students Succeed at State Science Olympiad

Cherokee County School District students earned numerous honors at the statewide Science Olympiad including first-place wins!

Top teams from the district competition -- first place, Carmel Elementary School; second place, Avery ES; and third place, Bascomb ES – and students from Hickory Flat ES, Liberty ES and Woodstock ES, advanced to the state competition held this month at Kennesaw State University to test their knowledge and skill in STEM challenges.  Sixty-four teams from schools across the state competed, with Avery ES placing ninth overall and winning two first-place honors!  Cobb Electric Membership Corporation and Gas South sponsor CCSD’s competition.  Congratulations to our state award-winning students and coaches!  Our School Board is laser focused on ensuring our students are learning more, growing more, and achieving more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else.

STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD HONORS

Avery ES Team

Harper Davila and Nicholas Pauley

Anvith Malgireddy and Srihas Padmaraju

Avery ES: First place, third-graders Barge Building – Harper Davila and Nicholas Pauley, and Chopper Challenge – fifth-graders Anvith Malgireddy and Srihas Padmaraju; third place, Water Rocket; fifth place, Grab a Gram; 13th place, No Bones About it.  Team members are: Aanu Agunbiade, McKenna Aldrich, Asher Bennett, John Daniel Berkemeier, Harper Davila, Pranav Dasari, Carson Fleming, Mayra Gautam, Charlotte Hughes, Blakely Lord, Anvith Malgireddy, Aarish Nayak, Srihas Padmaraju, Nicholas Pauley, Henry Prance, Jaasvi Pudota, Shourya Puli, Mason Rappaport, Gahan Rela Muni, Samaira Sanevelly, Weston Shoaff, Eleanor Williams, and Anvi Yadav.  Coaches are teachers Lyndsey Reed and Miranda Satterfield.

Hickory Flat ES: Fourth place, Mystery Architecture; fifth place, Paper Rockets; seventh place, Data Crunch; 12th place, Chopper Challenge
Carmel ES: Fifth place, Gummy Bear Launch; eighth place, Chopper Challenge; 10th place, Barge Building
Bascomb ES: Sixth place, Grab a Gram; eighth place, Water Rocket; 13th place, Egg Drop 
Liberty ES: Fifth place, Chopper Challenge; sixth place, Deep Blue Sea
Woodstock ES: Seventh place, Barge Building; 11th place, Paper Rockets     

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