Seventh-grade students Brent Warr and Chase Harris recently took the SAT as a part of Duke Tip's 7th Grade Talent Search. The Duke program identifies students in sixteen states in the Southeast, Midwest, and Southwest who have scored in the 95th percentile on a grade-level achievement test. As part of the program, these academically talented students elected to take above level college-entrance exams (SAT or ACT) to learn more about their abilities.
Service Day 2010 was a huge success! GCA's Community Service Day was a project of Grace's Senior class and all students, Kindergarten thru 12th grade, participated and spent a portion of their day giving back to the community. Our Kindergartners visited Riverside Place, Memorial Manor and Willow Ridge entertaining the residents with songs. 1st thru 5th spent a part of their day writing letters and drawing pictures for our service men and women and thanking them for their service to our country. The sixth graders spent the afternoon at the YMCA sprucing up the walking track with fresh pine straw and picking up trash. The 7th & 8th graders worked with Decatur Co. Keep America Beautiful cleaning off storm drains around town and mounting a decal that reminds people to not pollute our water supply. While the middle schoolers were out in the community, the 9th thru 12 graders were in the gym packing goody boxes for our soldiers. These boxes include items that were donated by the GCA students and faculty. Way to go Seniors...Great Project!!!
This year's Community Service Day has been scheduled for Monday, April 19th. Service Day is a Senior Class project and all GCA Pre-school students will do their project in the morning and the older students will do their projects in the afternoon.
GCA 7th Graders researched, designed and built "Marble Roller Coasters" as a science project on "Force and Motion." Students were required to write a paper on simple machines, draw a blue print, construct a roller coaster with at least four different simple machines, keep a science journal of the sequencing and problem solving they did, and demonstrate their roller coaster while answering questions from a panel of judges. Students and judges alike were amazed at how different each roller coaster was and how each year they get better and better. This year 1st place went to Chelsey Harrell, 2nd place went to Chase Harris and 3rd Place to Brent Warr. All the coasters were awesome...way to go students!!
