Students Selected for Governor's Honors
The statewide summer honors program for Georgia’s top rising high school juniors and seniors offers four weeks of college-level instruction at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Students are selected based on overall excellence in academics, extracurricular activities, and leadership as well as exceptional skills and talents in a specific area of study. Those tapped for the competitive program receive academic instruction in a specific area of study as well as cultural and social enrichment focused on helping them become the “next generation of global critical thinkers, innovators, and leaders.”

Etowah HS- Alexis Cua, Engineering Design
Woodstock HS - Katie Bean, Visual Arts; Caroline Toole, Communicative Arts
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Five Students Advance to State Writing Competition
The annual Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12 and provides an opportunity for schools to encourage writing in a variety of genres. Each CCSD school submits a top entry for each grade level to compete at the district level. District first-place winners then advance to the regional North Georgia Regional Education Service Agency contest for
the opportunity to compete statewide.

These CCSD students won first place in the regional competition and are advancing to the state competition:
Grade 1 - Eve Alsobrook of Clayton ES for “The Lost Dog”
Grade 2 - Wren Argo of Boston ES for “My Sport in Time”
Grade 5 - Elli White of Clark Creek ES STEM Academy for “Reflection Collection”
Grade 8 - Ellie Cosgrove of Woodstock MS for “Excerpt from ‘To the Stars’”
Grade 9 - Monica Ramirez of River Ridge HS for “I Admire the Leaves”
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Whitney Morberg Named 2024 Counselor of the Year
An 18-year school counselor and three-time Innovation Zone Counselor of the Year award winner, Morberg has served at Etowah HS for the past decade. She’s known for her expertise in guiding students to college acceptance and scholarship wins, but she’s equally known for her efforts to provide students access to career success (even coordinating students’ transportation to advanced training programs and assisting with applications), and her ability to support students experiencing emotional or mental health crises. She also serves on CCSD’s crisis team made up of the district’s most experienced counselors and uses her extensive training to respond to schoolwide crises, such as the death of a student or teacher, as well as to crises in individual students’ and colleagues’ lives.