Campbell Student Shines in Malaysia

An all-girl team originally based out of recently competed in the Formula 1 in Schools World Championships in Malaysia.

The F1 program encourages scientific, engineering and technological exploration in students with competitive opportunities to design, create and test gas-powered balsa wood miniature race cars. In competition, teams race their cars, powered by a CO2 cartridge, down a 20-meter track.

The team of Anna Awald, Kelly Fitzgerald and Claire McCoy, who now attend Science, Technology and Math Magnet program and Sabine Saldanha of International Baccalaureate program were the second-place USA competitors last year. They advanced to collaborate with a team from Hamburg, Germany in Kuala Lumpur.

The USA-German team, calling itself the HAWKS, competed on a global level with the best of the best from around the world, presenting materials and being interviewed by top-notch judges. They also learned about different countries, met a wide variety of people and made friends from all over the world. They also were interviewed by David Croft, the BBC F1 Commentator ­who was the emcee for the event.

They competed in seven categories: Engineering, verbal presentation, portfolio (written presentation), pit display, scrutineering (technical requirements), car speed and reaction-time racing. They are proud to be ranked 18th in the world.

This experience has made the girls even more committed to engineering and the F1 in Schools program. Their plans are to take all the knowledge and experience they gained and bring it to this year's National Competition to win first place.

The girls made many personal sacrifices to participate in the F1 in Schools program for the past two years. But being part of the F1 in Schools World Championship experience broadened their minds and hearts, and they'll be forever changed as students and world citizens.

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In other Campbell High news, Marianna Agudelo, Suraj Bhat, Clara Daniels, Nirosha Perera and Angela Shen have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and have advanced to the next round of the scholarship competition.

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National Achievement Scholarship semifinalists who are moving on to the next round of scholarship competition include Summer Ford, Kelli Hardnett, Carahna Magwood and Brandon Walker.

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National Merit Commended students (will not move to the next round of competition, but scored in the top five percent of all students who took the PSAT last October) include Drew Forbes, Juan Janse van Rensburg, Priyanka Krishnan, Kelsey Ruckert, Taylor Svete, Angela Vujic, Katie Willard and Isaac Wittenstein.

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Faculty member Ms. Marsha Boyd was selected as one of two recipients of the 2011 Gallo Grant. Established in 2003, this award enables teachers to attend the ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English) Workshop. The Gallo Grant encourages English teachers in the early career stage to be professionally active. 

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Campbell's 2nd Annual Spartan Sprint event is set for Nov. 12. This 5K event is a fundraiser for the Spartans’ athletic program and is a chip-timed Peachtree Road Race qualifying race. There will be a free fun run for the kids just after the finish of the 5K with finisher's ribbons for all the kids. 

The 5K run will present awards three-deep per age group and will start and finish at the football stadium. Sign up www.active.com

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And a belated congratulations to Campbell’s homecoming queen and king as Jasmyn Jackson and JJ Brown were crowned at halftime of the Sept. 30 football game against North Cobb.