Henderson Middle School Odyssey of the Mind team placed 2nd at the regional tournament on Saturday, March 2nd. With their second place finish, they are now moving on to state finals, which will be held on the Columbus State University campus on April 13th. Congratulations to the following team members: Julia Barker, Sarah Kvicala, Ella Shevlin, Shane Spillett, Emerson Tuggey, Virginia Wise, and Ben Zajac-Cox.

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Congratulations to Dylan Kirk who will be representing Henderson Middle School AND the DeKalb County School District in the State Geography Bee to be held March 29th in Milledgeville.  Dylan received 1st Place and his brother Jackson was first runner up in the Henderson Middle School Geography Bee.  HMS had over 1500 students participate in the preliminary rounds of competition and sent 2 representatives from each team for the final rounds of the local competition. 

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Congratulations to the Henderson Middle School Science Olympiad team for placing 3rd in the regional and advancing to the State Tournament to be held on March 16th at Kennesaw Mountain High School. 

The team competed with 14 other schools on March 2nd at Oconee County High School and the students were awarded 32 medals in 16 events.

We are so proud of all the team members who performed very well this year!  Congrats to the following students who placed in their events:

Hannah Choy  - Anatomy & Physiology:  1st place / Solar System: 2nd place / circuit Lab: 3rd place

Abbey Arrowood  - Herpetology: 1st place /  Mystery Architecture: 1st place / Road Scholar:  4th place

Habin Yoo - Anatomy & Physiology:  1st place / Heredity: 3rd place / Road Scholar:  4th place

Shaan Jani - Density Lab: 1st place / Meteorology: 2nd place

Clare Rollins – Herpetology: 1st place / Circuit Lab: 3rd place

Preshika Chhetri  - Dynamic Planet: 1st place  / Write It Do It: 3rd place

Carmen Pollard - Disease Detectives: 1st place  / Write It Do It:  3rd place

Steven Reid  - Density Lab: 1st place  /  Water Quality:  4th place

Shreya Chatterjee  - Fossils: 2nd place  / Heredity: 3rd place

Audrey Gilmore – Fossils:  2nd place /  Game On: 3rd place

William Han - Disease Detectives:  1st place

Henry Bielamowicz - Mystery Architecture: 1st place

Chris Claussen - Dynamic Planet: 1st place

Spencer Kim - Solar System: 2nd place

Jay Jani – Meteorology:  2nd place

Jackson Holt - Game On: 3rd place

Ella Einger - Elastic Launched Glider: 3rd place

Elise Giarrusso  - Elastic Launched Glider:  3rd place

Cassie Hopper - Water Quality:  4th place 

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Congratulations to the following students who will go on to represent HMS and DeKalb County School District at the 71st Georgia Science & Engineering Fair to be held at the Classic Center in downtown Athens, GA on Thursday, March 28-30, 2019:

John Force – Physics and Astronomy
Hannah Choy – Materials Science
Steven Reid – Microbiology
Anna Katz – Microbiology
Christopher Claussen – Plant Sciences
Spencer Kim – Energy: Chemistry

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Congratulations to the 2019 HMS Reading Bowl Team. Our Cougars took 3rd place at the Metro Atlanta Regional Competition held this past Saturday! They competed against 15 other teams from school districts around the Atlanta Area. Our reading bowl team had an excellent season bringing home 1st and 3rd place trophies. Way to go Cougars!

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Congrats to Dave Atmadi, of Team 7E.  Dave was our 1st place winner in the Henderson Middle School Spelling Bee and recently took 2nd Place Honors in the DeKalb County district bee held on February 6.  Dave now moves on to the GAE Region 4 Spelling Bee.  Great job!!

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Congratulations to Shane Spillet on Team 6B for winning 1st place in the 2019 DCSD Technology Fair in the Multimedia category!  Shane completed a project on The Hawksbill Sea Turtle: A Journey of Survival.  Shane was the only student from Henderson to place in any of the categories of the 2019 Fair.  He has the opportunity to go on to compete in the state competition in Macon, GA. 

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Henderson Middle School held its annual Spelling Bee on Friday January 11th.  Out of thirty contestents, our HMS Winner is David Atmadi.  He will now advance to the district level Spelling Bee.  Our runner up is Joel Louis-Ugbo.  Congratulations to David and Joel, and many thanks to all the students who participated.

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Congratulations to the following students, who are winners of the local HMS Science Fair and will be moving onto the DeKalb County District Science Fair:

Material Science

Hannah Choy
Dylan Duong

Microbiology

Craig Steinhaer
Steven Reid, Jay Jani, Bradley Towner
Dylan Kirk and Jackson Kirk

Molecular Biology

Anna Katz

Energy:  Chemical

Bryce Hickman

Environmental Engineering

Spencer Kim

Chemistry

Carter Douglas-Brown
Liam Ferguson

Plant Science

Chris Claussen
Taylor Smith-Ware
Ella Einiger

Physics

John Force
Donato Caputo

Again, congratulations to the preceding students for the hard work and dedication that you put into your science fair projects.  Good luck as you proceed top the district level!

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