More than 50 student athletes from 10 Atlanta Public Schools high schools signed National Letters of Intent Wednesday, at the annual APS National Signing Day event. This year’s ceremony was held at D.M. Therrell High School. While most of the scholarships signed were for football, other sports represented were baseball, basketball, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball […]
Atlanta Public Schools employees and JROTC students made the holiday season a little brighter for hundreds of children and families on Wednesday through their participation in the Atlanta Empty Stocking Fund’s annual Santa’s Village initiative. Nearly 100 APS employees, including Superintendent Dr. Meria J. Carstarphen, and more than 100 JROTC cadets volunteered for several hours […]
APS robotics teams experienced a great 2016 competition season! Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) teams from Douglass, Grady, Jackson and Mays high schools recently competed in the Technology Student Association (TSA) regional VEX competitions. In addition, Carver, Grady, Jackson, North Atlanta, and Washington participated in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics […]
by Kimberly Willis Green Maxwell (Max) Hayes is an outstanding senior student leader at North Atlanta High School. He has been a student in the North Atlanta cluster since first grade, where he attended Jackson Elementary and Sutton Middle School. Max is an extremely well rounded student who is very talented in art. With a […]
UPDATE: Check out the photo gallery here. APS high school science teachers attended a workshop at the Georgia Aquarium Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to improve science education in the classroom. The APS/Georgia Aquarium Collaboration 2010-11 also included a fall field trip by some 600 high school science students, and a similar trip […]