Middle School Student Achievements & Community Service
The Walker School commitment to our community
Tori Price, an 8th grader, accepting her award for 2nd place in the North Georgia Mountain Creative Writing Awards contest. she won for her poem "Just My Luck" and her prize was $50.00.
Four 8th grade girls donated their hair to http://www.locksoflove.org/, an organization that pays for hairpieces for young women that have long term hair loss due to illness. These young women had their hair cut at a participating hair salon so others could benefit by wearing a hairpiece during their treatment for cancer and other diseases.
 Three Walker sixth graders swept the state of Georgia in the Library of Congress’ national contest “Letters on Literature.” The entries were letters to authors whose book changed the lives of the reader. Pictured at the award ceremony on April 17th at the Margaret Mitchell house are first place winner Ryan Brush, who wrote to J.K. Rowling for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, third place winner Tim Farley, who wrote to S.E. Hinton about The Outsiders, and second place contestant Justin Snider who wrote to Lemony Snicket for A Series of Unfortunate Events. Seven sixth graders were honored as runners-up: Rahul Mody, Sarah Kelley, Kim McMillan, Caroline Brashier, Sahil Ramakrishnan, Erik Houston and Rachel Fine. Congratulations, writers!
 Joseph Illingsworth (6th grade), Hunter Mitchell (7th grade) and Kevin Flansburg (7th grade) competed at the 57th Georgia State Engineering and Science Fair in Athens, Georgia over the weekend. With 245 projects in the junior division all of our students placed in the overall competition and won several special category awards.
Hunter Mitchell brought home a third place ribbon in the competetion as well a first place in the special awards category from the American Water Works Association - Georgia Section for his project "Does Distance in Distribution Affect the Chlorine in Tap Water?"
Joseph Illingsworth place second in the overall competition and won a special award from the Society of Automotive Engineers - Atlanta Section as well as the US Navy and Marine Corp Award for his project "Are you Battery Smart? Choosing the Most Economic AA Battery to Use."
Kevin Flansburg won first place in the overall competition and won the UGA Physics and Astronomy Department Award. He was also selected to participate in the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge Award Competition for his continuation of last year's project "An Investigation of Battery Life for Different Technology Batteries, Part II."
Please give you congratulations to these students on their fine work.
I have included some pictures of of the awards ceremony.
Sincerely,
Lori Flansburg
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