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School News: Berkmar, Minor Win Gwinnett Readers Rally Titles
Competition will air this week online and on cable systems.
Two Lilburn-area schools, including defending champion , won championships in the finals last week in competition taped for television broadcast this week.
Berkmar beat Mill Creek by a score of 100-90 to win the high school division of the annual literary quiz-bowl competition, in which students answer question about books they’ve read from a pre-determined list of books.
won its division by defeating Craig Elementary 90-50 in the semifinals and Chesney Elementary 80-70 in the championship round.
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In the middle school category, Osborne Middle (Hoschton) beat Sweetwater Middle (Lawrenceville) 110-80.
The final round was taped at the school system’s TV Broadcast Center in Suwanee and will be aired Tuesday, Feb. 22, through Sunday, Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on GCPS-TV (Channel 22, Charter Cable; Channels 24 and 26, Comcast; and online, www.gcpstv.org).
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Other notes
-Berkmar High is one of three Gwinnett teams qualified among 22 teams in the Georgia Academic Decathlon (GAD) this weekend (Feb. 25-26) at Berkmar. Dacula and Mill Creek also are in the competition. The Berkmar team is coached by Christopher Pae and Brian Bernhardt. The winning team will represent Georgia at nationals in April in Charlotte.
-Kelly White from Minor Elementary was awarded a $500 grant from the Junior League to fund items for the Visual Technology Learning Center, which serves students whom are deaf and hard of hearing. The grant will be used to purchase a camcorder, digital camera and a color printer.
- student Jessica Solomon won a $100 savings bond in a regional poster contest sponsored by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
-The National Soccer Coaches Association of America recently awarded the program with a 2009-10 Team Academic Award. Parkview was one of only 61 schools which to receive the honor for both girls and boys soccer (Collins Hill High in Suwanee also received this distinction). In order to win the award, a team must have minimum grade point average of 3.25 for an entire school year. Parkview’s GPA were 3.29 among the boys and 3.49 among the girls.
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