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March 2008
COLLEGE/CAREER FAIR
The sixth annual Partners in Education "College and Career Fair" was held in the
Shaw Media Center the morning of March 27. Fourteen representatives from area
colleges, the military, and local businesses presented information to 350
students. Shaw's Partners in Education, TSYS, Mediacom of Columbus, and
University of Phoenix, hosted the event with classes rotating throughout the Media Center every
twenty-five minutes. Mrs. Faith Pohl, Mrs. Nancy Grantham, and Mr. George Monk are the liaisons
for TSYS, Mediacom, and University of Phoenix respectively.
CTAE
Construction
Mr. Bob Yarbrough's construction
students enhance their skills in framing a real house, such as wiring,
carpentry, floor and roof systems, shingles, applying siding, painting. etc.
They learn practically every trade involved in building a house through building
playhouses, two of which were already sold before building even began. Pictured
below are students from his third block class working on their playhouse.
FINE ARTS
Band
The Shaw High School Concert Band and the Albany State University Symphonic
Band performed a free concert in the Shaw Auditorium Friday, March 28. For those
who missed it truly missed a treat and a wonderful night of music!
HONORS
Administration
Our own Dr. Jim Arnold has been named as
one of GASSP's Distinguished Principals! Click
here to see
the 2008 Georgia High School Distinguished Principal press release and find out
more about this exemplary honor. Congratulations Dr. Arnold, we're beaming for
you!
Band
The Shaw band performed on March 4 at the River Center in Legacy Hall
for its mandated Large Group Performance Evaluation for the Georgia Music
Educators Association. Though playing Level 5 music in years past, band
director, Mr. George Cobb, raised the bar
and challenged his students to play at Level 6 and Level 5, and received two
excellent ratings! To his knowledge, the Shaw band was the only band in GMEA
District 3 that played a level 6.
The Shaw band will be hosting Albany State University's Symphonic Band in
concert on March 28 in the Shaw auditorium. The Shaw band will perform as well;
the time of the performance will be announced soon.
Torey Best,
Anthony Claiborne,
Trent Cofield, Sammy Fells,
Domonique Graphenreed, Xavier Hamilton,
and Kourtney Holland represented Shaw
High School at the Alabama State University Honor Band presentation March 14-16.
Their concert was held at 2PM on Sunday, March 16.
Mr. George Cobb is their band director.
(pictures taken by band parent)
DECA
Crystal Nguyen placed Second in Economics, and
Nayasia Coleman placed Fourth in Business Speech at the DECA State
Competition. Congratulations ladies!
FCCLA
Students in Shaw's FCCLA traveled to Cochran Saturday, March 15 for Region
STAR Event Competition. Rose Broach and
Candace Hill won Second in Chapter Project
Manual Senior and will advance to State competition in April.
Amber Bender placed Third in Illustrated Talk
Junior. Congratulations to these FCCLA members! (Pictured l to
r: Rose Broach and Candace Hill. Picture not available for Amber Bender)
FCCLA
Congratulations to all who placed in the CSU Foreign Language Fair on March
29. Those who placed were Brian
Brown, Vaughn
Bustamante, Celena Chapman,
Greg Goosby,
Elizabeth Guzman, Jessica Hadley,
Crystal Jackson,
Charlee James, Demi
Liptrot, Brett McGilton,
Antjuanette Shipman,
Heather Smith, Samantha
Special, and Kelli
Whitaker. It is definitely great to be a Shaw Raider!
HONORS
Samantha Special, sophomore at Shaw, was
awarded The American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship champion for the
American Legion Columbus North Post 323 and winner for the American Legion Third
District. Samantha also placed Third (behind two seniors) at the Area Oratorical
contest at Albany State College. Click
here to see the
press release from The American Legion. Samantha, you are awesome!
Congratuations!
IMPORTANT DATES
Report Cards will be given out during Advisory Period on March 11.
IMPORTANT DATES (COMING UP)
Open House for incoming ninth graders is May 5 at 6PM.
Honors' Day, the honoring of
outstanding Shaw students by family and invited classes will be held on Tuesday,
May 13. Juniors and seniors will be honored during first block; freshmen and
sophomores will be honored during second block.
INTERESTS
After watching political cartoons on Channel 1 on March 25, a study skills
class expressed some of "their" opinions by drawing their own political
cartoons--very expressive and reflective! Click on each one to view them.
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