CONGRATULATIONS TO STATE TECHNOLOGY FAIR CHAMPIONS!

With more than 1000 students, State Tech Fair competition was amazing! Each of our students made great efforts at the competition and 6 FSAPS Projects received awards in their category. All projects completed by students were unique and students' excitement were worth seeing. We hope to see many more students competing in State Tech Fair in the years to come. Congratulations to all winners and their parents. Wonderful job!

1st Place in Digital Audio Production Category - Neharika Marupudi
1st Place in Project Programming Category - Rishan and Shivan Patel
2nd Place in Case Modification Category - Edgar Robitaille
2nd Place in Mobile Applications Design Category - Graham Allen
3rd Place in Animated Graphic Design Category - Gwen O'Sullivan
3rd Place in Digital Video Production - Shreya Puvvula and Shivani Naraharishetty

GREAT RESULTS IN STATE MODEL UNITED NATIONS

On March 4th and 5th the FSAPS Model UN team travelled to Savannah to take part in the 17th Annual Coastal Georgia Middle School Model United Nations Conference where they put in a strong showing among the many schools and students in attendance.

The FSAPS Model UN team brought home an honorable mention trophy for their performance in the competition. In addition, several students received individual awards for the outstanding representation of their respective countries.

Three students were given the distinguished delegate awards for their accomplishments, Kian Nijaf representing Bangladesh in the Human Rights Council as well as Shreya Rekapalli representing Cameroon and Chloe Richardson representing Cote d’Ivoire, both in the African Union.

Four students received honorable mention awards for their work in the conference. Jaeden Amiri-Owens (Azerbaijan) and Sophie Richardson (Cameroon) were singled out for their work in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as was Neharika Marupudi (Azerbaijan) in the Human Rights Council. In the General Assembly, representing the country of Cameroon, Vishal Balyan also received recognition for his work.

Congratulations to the entire team for the hard work they put into preparing and competing in the conference!

Elementary Science Olympiad Students Advance to State Competition!

The hard work of the Elementary Science Olympiad students paid off this past Saturday, March 7th at the State Qualifying Competition. Our Elementary Science Olympiad students completed against 17 other teams and placed 2nd Overall as a team earning themselves a spot in the State Competition in May!! Head Coaches Ms. Minor and Ms. P could not be more proud of our ESO students and how well they represented FSAPS at the competition. A huge thank you goes out toall of our coaches for their hard work and dedication, and a giant CONGRATULATIONS to all of the students on the Elementary Science Olympiad team! A special shout out as well to the following students for their individual awards:

Bridge Building - 3rd Place: Celil Teber and Fatima Safdar coached by Mrs. Ayer
Disease Detectives - 6th Place: Kavitha Kuppaswamy and Siyona Patel coached by Mrs. Daley and Ms. Doraiswami
Don't Bug Me - 2nd Place: Shreyan Ghelani and Amrita Kaur coached by Mrs. Ghelani
Elements Compounds Mixtures - 6th Place: Logan Kersey and Michael Rico coached by Mr. Kersey
Grasp a Graph - 5th Place: Damien Davis and Bhavin Shah coached by Ms. Minor
Leaf and Tree Finders - 3rd Place: Kavitha Kuppaswamy and Lakshya Jasti coached by Ms. Doraiswami
Mystery Architecture - 7th Place: Logan Kersey and Siddarth Yamujala coached by Ms. Ramsey
Paper Rockets - 4th Place: Anastasia Kefalas and Neel Bhatt coached by Mrs. Yamujala
Rock Hound - 2nd Place: Nick A. and Fatima Safdar coached by Ms. P
Simple Machines - 7th Place: Nick A. and Neel Bhatt coached by Mrs. Ayer
Starry Starry Night - 2nd Place: Siyona Patel and Lakshya Jasti coached by Mrs. Flowers
Straw Egg Drop - 8th Place: Celil Teber and Neel Bhatt coached by Ms. Ramsey
Which Way is North - 10th Place: Austin Gardner and Greyson Osekevage coached by Ms. Minor
Water Rockets - 1st Place: Austin Gardner and Greyson Osekavage coached by Mr. Kurt

Way to go ESO students and coaches... we are so proud of you and we wish you the best of luck at State in May!

GREAT RESULTS IN LANGUAGE OLYMPIADS!

This year semi finals of Language Olympiad was held in Jacksonville, Florida. Our students participated to English Olympiad, Spanish Olympiad and Turkish Olympiad in the categories of singing and poetry. We had the highest number of participants and got the chance of going for finals which is going to be on 16th of May, in Jacksonville. The students qualified for finals are as follows:

English Olympiad Singing Category - Margarette Sutton
Spanish Olympiad Singing Category - Carmen Tello
Turkish Olympiad Singing Category - Margarette Suttton
Turkish Olympiad Native Poetry Category - Bahriye Agu
Turkish Olympiad Native Poetry Category - Sedat Akgun

Congratulations to all of these students for their spectacular performances.

Students also had some fun activities in jacksonville. They visited Authentic Old Jail & St. Augustine, played laser tag and enjoyed ice skating.

THE GREAT MAIL RACE

As part of a social studies (U.S. geography) and language arts (letter writing) collaborative project, the fourth and fifth grade classes of FSAPS are participating in the national Great Mail Race! Each student wrote a friendly letter to one or more fourth or fifth grade classes in different states around the country. Students were assigned states via a raffle process, and each student wrote 2-4 letters to one school of their choice in each of their assigned states.

We will be keeping track of the replies we receive by pinning them onto a large map of the United States, and we hope to receive at least one reply from each of the fifty states before the school year ends!

FSAPS CELEBRATES Dr. SEUSS' BIRTHDAY!

This past Friday, March 6th FSAPS celebrated Dr. Seuss’ Birthday! Every student from Pre-K through 8th grade entered the school to special surprises to celebrate the day. Thing 1 and Thing 2 greeted middle school students who dressed up with a hat, bow tie to decorate, and special treat (because you’re never too old for a little Seuss). Everyone who was dressed in black received a set of whiskers, red and white striped hat, and black nose on their faces to be “The Cat in the Hat.” By the end of 1st period we had an entire school of Cat in the Hats!!

Elementary students enjoyed an afternoon-long journey through the wonderfully wacky world of Dr. Seuss’ most famous stories. Students rotated through all the elementary classrooms, collecting Dr. Seuss themed prizes to put in their goodie bags, hearing a story, and then completing activities based on the book they just heard.

After listening to Bartholomew and the Oobleck, students used Elmer’s glue, Borax, food coloring, and water to concoct their own gooey Oobleck. The reading of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish preceded the measuring activity geared towards creating Dr. Seuss “Silly Soup.” The imaginative illustrations of The Lorax served as inspiration for some very creative art projects. The Foot Book got the students moving with some fun games inspired by this classic story. Finally, students enjoyed cooking projects and language arts activities following the story Green Eggs and Ham.

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE OLYMPIAD LOCK-IN

Thank you to all the families who came out to support our Elementary Science Olympiad lock-in! It was a wonderful night full of hard work, delicious food, and fun with friends! Throughout the night, students were rotating to different stations to practice their event. They were given the opportunity to work closely with their event coach, attend a study session in the computer lab with their partner, enjoy some free time on the playground, and end the night by practicing with their coaches once more. We are very proud of the students' hard work and dedication this year! Please wish the FSA Elementary Science Olympiad team good luck this week, as they will be attending the Regional Qualifier Competition in Cumming this Saturday!

SPRING BOOK DRIVE & BOOK CHARACTER DRESS UP DAY

BOYS vs. GIRLS
Bring in gently used books from now till March 31st and put them in the bins in the front office. We are requesting books for adults and children such as; children's books, juvenile fiction, adult fiction, historical fiction, self-help, business books, cookbooks, etc. The winners will receive a frozen treat as their reward.

Anyone bringing in two or more books can participate in a literary character dress up day on Thursday March 26th.

Please make sure that your book character costume is approved by your Language Arts teacher.

Books will be used to stock our library shelves or used to trade in for more books through our partner Read-It-Again.

Spirit Night - Join us at Read-It-Again on Friday March 27th 4-8pm.
Shop a huge selection of new and used books and unique gifts. Proceeds will be used by FSAPS to purchase additional books for the school!

$1,033 COLLECTED FOR PENNIES FOR PATIENTS

Pennies for Patients charity ended last Friday, collecting $1033. Science department would like to thank to all the parents, teachers, and students for their support to this charity.

Fulton Science Academy Science Olympiad Team Best at Regionals!

It was a sweet victory for the Fulton Science Academy Private School Science Olympiad Team as they won first place in the Regional Tournament held on Valentine’s Day at the University of North Georgia Gainesville Campus. Competition at the tournament was tough as FSAPS was up against perennial rival Dodgen Middle School. “Our students always enjoy competing against Dodgen,” said Head Coach Pam Walsh. “They are such a strong team and our students know they’ve got to be at their best.” The awards ceremony was intense as the lead switch from FSAPS to Dodgen several times, but in the end, FSAPS won by 8 points.

 The top five schools from the tournament will advance to the State Science Olympiad Tournament in March, so FSAPS will be up against Dodgen once again. “We’ve got our work cut out for us to prepare for the State Tournament,” said Walsh. “We know Dodgen and the other teams will be working hard and the competition will only get tougher.” The team’s goal is to qualify for the National Science Olympiad Tournament to be held at the University of Nebraska. Only the top two teams in Georgia will advance.

Individual awards were earned by the following students:


Air Trajectory – coached by Ms. Tang
1st Place – Simon Wang and Akash Bhatt


Anatomy – coached by Ms Doraiswami
4th Place –Araneesh Pratap and Sanjeev Uppaluri


Bio Process Lab – coached by Mrs. Uppaluri
2nd Place – Brian Shoffeitt and Elaine Wen


Bottle Rockets – coached by Mr. Seker
1st Place – Maryam Unal and Saad Maan
2nd Place – Sarah Lucas and Ananya Terala


Bridges – coached by Mr. Seker
3rd Place – Faith Lucas and Elaine Wen
4th Place – Ethan Gardner and Pranav Madadi


Can’t Judge a Powder – coached by Ms. Lang
3rd Place – Hasan Unal and Sarah Lucas


Crave the Wave – coached by Mr. Wang
2nd Place – Simon Wang and Brian Shoffeitt


Crime Busters – coached by Ms. Lang
2nd Place – Sarah Lucas and Hasan Unal
4th Place – Maryam Unal and Soleil Moffitt


Disease Detectives – coached by Mrs. Bhatt and Ms. Chirumamilla
1st Place – Brian Shoffeitt and Akash Bhatt


Dynamic Planet – coached by Mrs. Walsh
1st Place – Mira Mutnick and Sanjeev Uppaluri
3rd Place – Christina Wang and Sophie Richardson


Elastic Launch Glider – coached by Mrs. Walsh
4th Place – Shreya Puvvula and Shivani Naraharishetty


Entomology – coached by Mrs. Butler
3rd Place – Soleil Moffitt and Will Mutsch


Experimental Design – coached by Mrs. Stathos
2nd Place – Simon Wang, Mira Mutnick, and Ananya Terala
3rd Place – Sophie Richardson, Maryam Unal, and Shreya Puvvula
4th Place – Karen Pederson, Ameya Rekapalli, and Sruthi Chatrathi


Fossils – coached by Ms. Beres
2nd Place – Araneesh Pratap and Faith Lucas
4th Place – Callie Webster and Will Mutsch


Green Generation – coached by Ms. Larson
1st Place – Faith Lucas and Elaine Wen
2nd Place –Christina Wang and Sparsh Kudrimoti


Meteorology – coached by Mrs. Walsh
2nd Place – Araneesh Pratap and Ananya Terala
3rd Place – Neha Marupudi and Chance Crigler


Picture This – coached by Ms. Fichter
1st Place – Elaine Wen, Sarah Lucas, and Sanjeev Uppaluri
3rd Place – Christina Wang, Avinash Pratap, and Katherine Li


Road Scholar – coached by Mrs. Stathos
3rd Place – Mira Mutnick and Karuna Kumar


Robo-Cross – coached by Mr. Kaya
2nd Place – Mira Mutnick and Hasan Unal
4th Place – Sruthi Chatrathi and Destiny Abbey


Simple Machines – coached by Ms. Duzyol
1st Place – Karuna Kumar and Brian Shoffeitt
2nd Place – Vihan Karnala and Ethan Gardner
3rd Place – Katherine Li and Avinash Pratap


Solar System – coached by Mrs. Walsh
2nd Place –Araneesh Pratap and Andre Hamelberg


Wheeled Vehicle – coached by Mr. Seker
1st Place – Andre Hamelberg and Akash Bhatt
2nd Place – Saad Maan and Arul Selvakumar


Write It, Do It – coached by Mrs. Stathos
1st Place – Mira Mutnick and Karuna Kumar

2nd Place – Katherine Li and Christina Wang