Four students from Maxwell High School of Technology in Lawrenceville, Georgia, are heading to Houston on April 19 to offer suggestions in response to some of NASA's biggest challenges as part of the NASA HUNCH program. This is the first year schools from Georgia have been invited to participate in the program, which allows high school students to develop solutions to problems posed on the International Space Station program that are not vital for NASA engineers to work on. The problems become new challenges for the students to address in the areas of design and prototype, video and media, sewn flight articles, flight configuration, software, hardware, and biomedical science.
In most situations, using the words “high school” and “food fight” in the same sentence would not necessarily portend to a positive community event.
This, however, is not one of those situations.
Culinary students from Gwinnett County high schools in Georgia will compete in a "food fight" to create dishes to feed the food insufficient in the community. The schools with culinary education programs will prepare 10 gallons of a creamed, protein-based product with vegetables that go over rice, potatoes or pasta that will be judged by Chef Hank Reid of the nonprofit Lettum Eat. The top two dishes will be recognized, with the rest of the food available to Reid for use in his food truck. Lettum Eat provides fresh meals for the food insufficient in Gwinnett County. The competition is also an opportunity for the students to give back to the community and consider food service as a career path.
The Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) Foundation has partnered with Gwinnett Technical College and Atlanta Technical College to create a certification program for natural gas technicians, in response to a growing need for a new generation of technicians due to retirements. The one-semester program will begin on May 22 and will consist of 14 credit hours divided into four courses. AGL crews will provide ride-alongs for students. The Technical College System of Georgia received a $400,000 grant from the AGL Foundation to update facilities and equipment and support financially struggling students. Interested students can find registration information on the two colleges’ websites.
Brookwood celebrated Senior Night with a 10-3 win over Dacula in boys lacrosse on Thursday.
Mack Trentini led the victory with four goals, while Mason Saunders , Elijah Bryant, Chase Whigham and Landon Lofters also contributed in the attack.
The Broncos improve to 5-12 overall and 3-4 in area play. On the ladies’ side, Brookwood cruised to a 21-1 win over Dacula for Senior Night on Thursday.
Triniti Cassidy had seven goals, one assist and two groundballs for the Broncos, while Leah Brown, Zoe Calendine and Alexis Scoggins also had big games.
Greater Atlanta Christian’s powerhouse volleyball program has a new head coach.
The Norcross private school announced Thursday it has promoted assistant coach Crystal Lee to head coach as a replacement for the outgoing Rachel VanderPol. VanderPol led the Spartans to the Class AAAAA state championship in 2022 – with Lee as an assistant — and the AAA state title in 2021. Prior to joining GAC last season, Lee coached from 2019 to 2021 at Johns Creek. She also has coached club volleyball at 575 Volleyball and A5 South.
Lee played college volleyball from 2015-18 at Georgia State, leading the Panthers in attacking her final two seasons and tallying 818 career kills. She was a teammate of Kristina Stinson, North Gwinnett's head coach, early in her college career.
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