ACADEMICS
WORLD LANGUAGES
Fulton Forum Language Competition
Please help Mme Moorman and I congratulate the following French students for their outstanding performance last weekend in the Fulton Forum Language Competition! They each had a 12-15 minutes interview in French. During that time, they had to answer personal questions, come up with a solution to a given situation, and invent a story based on a given picture. They all received SUPERIOR ratings which is the highest award1! Mme Moorman and I are so proud of each and every one of them:
Level 2: Tasneem Wahid & Nicole Campbell
Level 3: Lisa O'Brien & Piper Chapman
Level 4: Izabelle Brown & Rylyn Monahan
Level 5 (AP) : Jean Moorman & John (Jack) Dubois
LATIN
Congratulations to Maria Zulfiqar and Isabella Banich for their success at the Georgia Junior Classical League State Convention! Maria won the GJCL Logo contest and her work is now the official logo for the organization - it has already been put up on the Georgia Junior Classical Leaguel website: www.gjcl.org
Isabella won the Advanced Modern Myth contest with he short story, and will have it published this month in the Alae Mercurii - a national magazine. Congratulations to both of these fine classicists!
NCWIT
Congratulations to Milton's NCWIT (National Center for Women In Technology) Award for Aspirations in Computing 2018 State Affiliate Winners! At the April 28th NCWIT banquet held at Georgia Tech, Angela Scaria and Divya Nori received NCWIT Aspirations in Computing State Affiliate Awards. Anita Li, Anuhya Tadepalli, and Shreya Ramesh received NCWIT Aspirations in Computing State Affiliate Honorable Mention Awards. The awards were in recognition of the students' works in computing and their aspirations for futures in computing. Way to go!
PERFORMING ARTS
JAZZ BAND
Congratulations to the Jazz Band for a fantastic performance last Monday at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. The band was invited to be the opening act for the legendary Joe Gransden Big Band and performed a fantastic concert.
ATHLETICS
TRACK & FIELD
The Milton Track & Field Teams, fresh off their 3rd-ever boys region title, travelled to McEachern HS for the GHSA Sectional meet which qualifies athletes to the State Meet and came away with a new school record and many individual qualifiers for the state track & field championships to be held at Berry College, Rome, GA on May 10-12.
BOYS
The highlight for Milton was the school record performance of the 4x100m relay team. Milton (2nd-41.81) won the first heat in come from behind fashion to qualify for the state meet. Demarrie Taylor, Davis Smith, Solomon Vanhorse & DJ Albright broke the school record that had stood since 2002 of 42.28! Senior Davis Smith had a busy day but qualified in 4 events for the state meet. Smith was 2nd in the Long Jump (22'8"), 5th in the 400m (49.55, the 2nd fastest time in school history), 4th in the 300m Hurdles (39.54) & the before mentioned 4x100m relay. Double event state qualifiers also included seniors Nicholas Yanek & Sam Bowers, both in the 1600m (Yanek 2nd-4:26.16, Bowers 6th-4:29.78) & 3200m (Yanek 1st-9:24.10, Bowers 7th-9:53.18) and Solomon Vanhorse in the 100m (7th-10.94) & the 4x100m. Single event state qualifiers included junior Mathew Mazzacano in the pole vault (2nd-14'), Lucas Moore in the long jump (3rd-22'6.5") and finally senior captain Ryan Beitzell in the 800m (6th-1:58.24).
GIRLS
The Lady Eagles were led by senior captain Annie Gallagher who qualified for the state meet in two events that were both personal bests and top-5 all-time school performances. In the 1600m, Gallagher (4th-5:06.37) ran close to a 2-second personal best & 4th best in school history. In the 800m, Gallagher (5th-2:15.52) recorded the 2nd best performance in school history. Single event state qualifiers included the big personal best performance by Amanda Sanchez in the discus. Sanchez (7th-102'10") threw a 13 foot personal best to move on to the state meet. Sophomore Nyah Hernandez (6th-11:49.55) & junior Taylor Cushman (8th-11:54.78) both qualified in the 3200m to close out Milton's state track meet qualifiers.
