Mary Lin students participated in a spectacular flash mob at the Candler Park Fall Festival on Saturday, October 13th. Approximately 100-125 students, parents, and teachers danced enthusiastically to the song “Firework” by Katy Perry. The students began practicing for this event four weeks ago, which was coordinated by Peggy Edwards, a parent at Mary Lin […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5cIsfjyhY%5D Judge Glenda Hatchett had her audience alternately in the palm of her hands and reeling on their heels during her inspiration and challenging speech at the 10th Lowery Lecture Series on Monday at Douglass High School. Obviously we posted information and highlights from the day’s events in the blog post below, but we […]
The phenomenon that is Deonte Bridges continues, this time with a great profile in Sunday’s AJC by one of their top reporters, Mark Davis. In the article, Davis chronicles the exploits that led to the Washington High valedictorian’s graduation speech and his subsequent celebrity sparked the YouTube video we posted back on June 14. Since […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IyAdMhXkt0%5D It seemed like a simple enough idea: Take Deonte Bridges‘ moving valedictorian speech at the Booker T. Washington graduation ceremony that had been recorded by our Learning Technologies staff and put it up on our newly opened YouTube channel. Well, next thing you know, Bridges’ speech went viral, currently surging past 60,000 page […]