Whitfield High School Students Take Tech to the Next Level
Four Northwest Whitfield High School students took top honors this week at the Sequoyah Regional Georgia Educational Technology Fair and will proceed to the next round at the state competition in March.
- Bryan Cooper won first place in Web 2.0 Internet Applications for his Wikia website on the history of aviation in the United States.
- Eli McMahon earned first place in Digital Photography for a PhotoShop collage of original artwork and photography that depicts the negative and positive influences on the average teenage girl in the modern age.
- Josh Rountree received first place in Multimedia Applications for a PowerPoint presentation on photography as a career in which he included original photographs.
- Audrey Edds received second place in Multimedia Applications for a PowerPoint presentation on the orthodontic profession that featured pictures of her friends.
Students in grades 3–12 are eligible to participate in any of the fourteen categories available, including Digital Video Production, 3D Modeling, and Robotics among many other categories. Participants in the regional fair are winners of local fairs held in their school districts.
The Sequoyah Regional Georgia Educational Tech Fair, held at Teasley Middle School in Cherokee County on Jan. 28, leads to the state-level Georgia Educational Technology Fair on March 10 in Macon. The competitions are organized by the Georgia Educational Technology Consortium.
Anyone interested in helping these students with the costs of attending the state fair or for more information about the fair, please contact the NWHS Tech Fair sponsors Shara Cook or Betsy Clem, or contact principal Britt Adams.
Learn more about the Georgia Educational Technology Fair and focus on the regional competition at sequoyahtechfair.org.
