Cherokee County School District Announcements Woodstock ES Student Wins Youth Entrepreneur AwardFifth-grader Eli Fox received the 2023 Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. The award recognized the outstanding business plan he created and then carried out for the Chamber’s Lemonade Day Cherokee County entrepreneurship program.Through the program, students in grades 3-5 were invited to learn about business by creating their own lemonade stand. For his “Eli’s Hero Lemonade” stand, Eli developed a business plan that included investors and paid employees. He sold several varieties of lemonade as well as frozen lemonade, Arnold Palmers (lemonade with sweet tea) and snacks at his stand. He raised more than $500 through sales at his stand, which he set up at The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in Woodstock. Grant Award Funds Rowing Addition for PE ProgramsThe Concept2, Inc. Erg Ed grant, valued at $45,000, was awarded to CCSD by the George Pocock Rowing Foundation through a competitive application process. Only two school districts nationwide were selected for the award, which includes a set of 20 Concept2 rowing machines and adaptive equipment, curriculum, and teacher training.As a result of the grant, all CCSD middle schools and ACE Academy will add a two-week rowing unit to their PE classes this school year. Erg Ed is a classroom-based indoor rowing education program that teaches students rowing fundamentals on Concept2 RowErg machines. The curriculum emphasizes not only rowing but also goal setting and teamwork. This past summer, teachers began participating in Learn to Row training, offered locally by the Allatoona Rowing Association, which is partnering with CCSD on the new initiative.JROTC Instructors Win Top Honors Etowah HS Air Force JROTC program lead instructor Lt. Col. (retired) Stephen Bergey (below) and instructor Technical Sgt. (retired) Ciarra Malto (right) have earned 2023 AFJROTC Outstanding Instructor Awards, which honor top AFJROTC teachers who are considered the “Best of the Blue” for their success in teaching and engaging their cadets in community service.Last school year, Lt. Col. Bergey earned the 2022 Overall AFJROTC Instructor of the Year award out of more than 1,900 AFJROTC instructors worldwide. The program also recently earned an overall unit assessment score of Exceeds Standards, the highest rating available and which ranks it in the top 12% worldwide. Career Pathway Program for Teaching Profession Expanded CCSD has earned a competitive Cultivating Teachers grant from the Georgia Department of Education. It is one of 38 school districts selected statewide, and it earned the highest level of award at $10,000.The funding will help the district with its plan to add a Career Pathway program in Teaching as a Profession at Etowah HS for the 2024-25 school year. CCSD offers 38 Career Pathway programs districtwide to prepare students for a wide variety of vocations including offering industry certifications (more information is available at CherokeeK12.net/career-technical-agriculture-education). The Teaching as a Profession program is offered at Creekview, River Ridge, and Sequoyah High Schools, and the related Early Childhood Education program is offered at Cherokee and Woodstock High Schools. The new program will fill the gap at Etowah HS to ensure its students interested in careers in teaching and education also have a Career Pathway option. Upon successful completion of one of the two teaching Pathways, passage of the End of Pathway exam, and submission of an appropriate portfolio of work, students are awarded three college credit hours by the University System of Georgia and guaranteed an interview with CCSD upon graduating from college and earning professional certification. Sequoyah Student Wins National Video Production ScholarshipJunior Noah Popp earned a $5,000 Student Scoreboard Scholarship from Formetco Sports in recognition of his success using the company’s video LED scoreboard technology to make school football games and other events more engaging. He also was tapped to advise the company this school year as its high school student engagement manager. Popp is a third-year student in Sequoyah’s Career Pathway program for AV, Technology, and Film led by teacher Brad Mann.
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