East Cobb students honored as Georgia Scholars, and at Cobb Career Tech Awards night

Several East Cobb students have been honored this week by the Georgia Department of Education as well as the Cobb County School District’s Career, Technical and Agricultural Education program.

Ten students from East Cobb High Schools are among those named Georgia Scholars by the state education department, which recognizes graduating seniors “who have achieved excellence in school and community life;”

  • Walton: Ekta Deshmukh; Daniel Hudadoff; Madelyn Johnson; Laura Key; Adarshini Raja;
  • Pope: Belanie Jones; Loren Tsang;
  • Wheeler: MJ Lock; Hisham Kashif;
  • Lassiter: Taylor Van Horn.

On Wednesday, Cobb schools held its first inaugural awards gala for Career, Tech Technical and Agricultural Education students at Kennesaw Mountain High School. Most Cobb high schools had a CTAE student of the year, and for East Cobb schools they were the following:

  • Austin Kline, Kell;
  • Hunter Peterson, Lassiter;
  • Shivani Patel, Sprayberry;
  • Laney Jones, Walton;
  • Hannah Obenhoff, Wheeler.

In addition, Kell’s Madelyn Handy and Sprayberry’s Hoang (Olivia) Nguyen were named Youth Apprenticeship Students of the Year.

The following students from East Cobb were named students of the year at their respective middle schools:

  • Theodore Parker, Daniell;
  • Scott Dobo, Dodgen;
  • Latasia Neal, East Cobb;
  • Anna Sorokoff, Mabry;
  • Nathaniel Gant, McCleskey.

 

Get Our Free E-Mail Newsletter!

Every Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest. Click here to sign up, and you’re good to go!