Georgia Tech Laser Exhibit Featured at Mountain Park Science Expo

Local students will get up close and personal with science.

Students at Mountain Park Elementary in Roswell are not only reading about what it’s like to be a scientist, they'll also get up close and personal with it when the Georgia Tech Laser Exhibit stops by next week. This year’s Science Expo and Laser Exhibit will be held Thursday, Oct. 11 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the school. The special addition will feature student-submitted experiments, research projects and scientific collections. For nearly a decade, the Science Expo has been an opportunity for Mountain Park students of all grades to display non-competitive and non-judged science work that is completed at home with parent assistance and submitted for inclusion. Each student who enters their work receives a ribbon and a certificate.

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Mountain Park Students Donate $2K to Local Charities

Fifth grade students will make donations to the Chattahoochee Nature Center, Foster Care Support Foundation and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Fifth grade students in the talented and gifted classes at Mountain Park Elementary recently developed their own businesses and then gave the profit to charity. As part of an economics unit, "Mind Your Own Business," students in Leslie Gilbert, Ellen Rubin and Kati Searcy classes were challenged to create a real-world business. Students had to decide on an original product to manufacture, choose the name for their company, decide what to do with their profit, and then finally, create and market the product.   "Kooky Kupz," "Write-On" and "Word Wizards" were the result of creative thinking and hard work. The three companies raised over $2,000 total and donated all of the profit to local charities. 

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Got Something You Need to Tell the Fulton School System?

School Board member Linda Schultz plans community meeting.

Community members in the Roswell area have a chance to interact with their Fulton County Board of Education representative, Linda Schultz, Monday, Sept. 19. Schultz and the rest of the school board sponsor monthly meetings open to all members of the community. Board members have set the following meeting dates for September 2011: Linda Schultz, District 1 Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m. Mountain Park Elementary School Katie Reeves, District 2 Sept. 20, 9:30 a.m. Alpharetta Elementary School Gail Dean, District 3                       Sept. 15, 9:30 a.m. Lake Forest Elementary School Linda Bryant, District 4 Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. Camp Creek Middle School Linda McCain, District 5             Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m. Johns Creek Environmental Campus (8100 …

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Roswell Woman Out of Jail for Death of Girl

An elderly woman who struck and killed a little girl with her car in 2009 is out of jail now after serving 76 days.

The 83-year-old Roswell woman who struck and killed a 5-year-old little girl on Davis Road in December 2009 is out of state prison after serving 76 days of a three year sentence, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Edith Main Anderson was sentenced to three years for the death of Karla Campos - a student at Mountain Park Elementary School - in January after she entered a guilty plea so the family would not have to go through a trial. According to the AJC, Anderson went into a "panic mode" that led to the horrifying tragedy. In an attempt not to hit Campos' school bus, which was stopped to let children off, Anderson swerved and struck the little girl, who died en-route to the hospital.

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Mountain Park Class Wins Environmental Award

Kati Searcy's fifth-grade class was presented with the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream 'AAS in Action' Award during a ceremony, Tuesday, Mar. 1.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division recently selected Mountain Park Elementary School's fifth-grade Talented and Gifted class as its 2010 "Georgia Adopt-A-Stream 'AAS in Action' Award" winners. Every year the award is presented to one group in Georgia whose methods to educate their community on environmental issues have gone above and beyond. Typically, these groups use non-traditional formats like You Tube, art, music or another multimedia application to raise awareness about water quality. Mountain Park students, who were already monitoring the health of the stream at Leita Thomson Memorial Park, secured the award by creating a company they called, "Adopt-A-Wreath," through which they made and sold seasonal wreaths to friends …

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Mountain Park Transforms Into Chocolate Factory

The students of Mountain Park Elementary School put on a production of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory this past weekend.

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Mountain Park ES Raffle Raises Money for Students

Mountain Park Elementary School held their annual Holiday Extravaganza, Sat. Dec. 4.

Mountain Park Elementary School recently held their popular Holiday Extravaganza on Dec. 4 and once again, it was a success on a number of levels.  Students, parents, vendors, entertainers and many people from the local community came out to support the school while they enjoyed some holiday fun. Nearly the entire school building was packed with people purchasing holiday gifts in the vendor market, checking out the incredible baskets up for raffle, purchasing treats from the "Sweet Shop" and enjoying live entertainment from the local community. The basket raffle is one of the most popular features of the Extravaganza. Each classroom creates a "basket," which often exceed regular basket sizes (see: Braves tent, or "Keep the Good Times …

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