Raiders in the 2015 science fair!

Alpharetta High School participated in Fulton County science fair this past Saturday (Jan 31). All 1^st and 2^nd place winners from AHS will participate in Georgia State Science Fair (GSEF) in Athens in March.  

AHS band students selected by UGA!

Eight of our Alpharetta Band students were selected and participated in the University of Georgia JanFest Honor Band Clinic this past weekend. They were selected along with 1,000 other high school students from around the southeast to participate in this prestigious honor event. They auditioned and earned high placement in their respective honor bands and gave impressive concerts yesterday. Congratulations to Carlee Woodring, Eric Tam, Daniel Gelber, Lizzy Cohn, Izzy Vezeau, Dharani Balakumar, Henry Gilelach, and Christian Culloty. Mr. Walsh and Mr. Jenkins are quite proud of these students for their accomplishments and for representing themselves Alpharetta High School.

Speech and Debate at Emory

Last weekend, schools from across the country came to Atlanta to compete at one of the largest gatherings of speech and debate competition, Emory University’s Barkley Forum. The Duo Interpretation team of Milx Barbosa and Nalah Hill finished as semi-finalists. Quarter-finalists include Conner Kocks in Humorous Interpretation and the duo interpretation team of Justin Gaither and Tate Rehklau.

AP Night at AHS

Congrats to Eddy Koh and Mrs. Ramsey!

Alpharetta High School Senior Eddy Koh and AP Calculus teacher Brendan Ramsey are honored by Dr. Kersey and the Alpharetta Rotary Club as the student and teacher of the quarter for their service and commitment to excellence!

Big wins for Alpharetta speech team!

The Alpharetta Speech Team had successful wins last weekend at the Milton Classic Speech and Debate Tournament.  Our team won four more bids to the state championship, bringing our total now to thirty.  Emma Svitil and Emily Hanmer picked up bid in Poetry & Prose, as did Karthik Ramaswami and Irene Velez in Dramatic Interpretation.  Our team also won all three of the interpretation events with Cal Swanson and Justin Gaither winners of Duo Interpretation, as well as, winners Kelly Lumpkin in Dramatic Interpretation and Deja Holmes in Dramatic Interpretation.  Maya Nnaeto placed third in Impromptu Speaking.  In Humorous Interpretation, Conner Kocks was third, Christina Nguyen, 4th, and Coyvan Greer, 5th.  In duo interpretation, Nalah Hill and Milx Barbosa 
placed 3rd with Christina Nguyen and Suma Yellamraju, 4th, and Sarah Curtis and Alex Atchison, 5th.

Guest musicians from our community came to visit in Orchestra

FBLA first place winners

On Tuesday the 20^th, AHS hosted the FBLA Region 9 Leadership Conference. Alpharetta once 
again won the sweepstakes trophy for the school with the most competition wins. The students  with 1st place finishes were: 
Banking & Financial Solutions- Ben Dugger 
Business Financial Plan- Ben Dugger, Nishant Reddy & Srikar Thammishetti 
Computer Applications- Nikhil Sethi 
Desktop Publishing- Alison Mahoney & Wendy Zheng
Digital Video Production- Matthew Goodman, Alex Luegers & Gavin Ng 
Global Business- Apurva Gundaria, Jong Rak Koh & Nikhil Sethi
Marketing- Kristin Graves, Mariana Matias & Muscan Raghuwanshi 
Network Design- Kevin Goff, Christian Guerrero & Jack Rager 
Public Service Announcement- Srikar Komanduri, Devon Merlette & Dennis Podvitz 
Securities & Investments- Varun Tangirala 
Sports & Entertainment Management- Willie Chang, Shadman Ibnamasud & Rajiv Reddy 
Business Ethics- Alex Chen, Rohan Kansara & Torus Lu 
Business Presentation- Dhakshi Balakumar & Gloria Chan 
Emerging Business Issues- Brian Hu & Vaibhav Kumar 
Job Interview- Julie Nygaard 
Public Speaking II- Kindle Anderson
Sales Presentation- Arman Qureshi 
Future Business Leader- Apurva Gundaria
Congratulations to all of the FBLA competitors!!

Ms. Harris class participates in Test Kitchen

Alpharetta High School was selected as one of only 12 schools in Georgia to participate in a new program sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture.  Angie Yarbrough, our school cafeteria manager is given a new recipe each month to test on students. Students fill out a survey and their feedback is sent to the USDA for review in order to make decisions for use of these recipes in our Georgia schools.  Ms. Harris’ class provided very positive feedback and honest suggestions as well.   All USDA recipes have fruits and/or vegetables as new nutrition guidelines for students provide more fresh fruits and vegetables on school menus.  This year more students are eating fruits and vegetables than ever before when they purchase a school breakfast or lunch.

"I responded to Angie’s request in the beginning of the school year when we were in our Experimental Design unit. When we returned to the classroom I asked the students what factors they could apply to Experimental Design (control, independent and dependent variables). This served as a good 'mini review' of this unit since we covered it so long ago." - Ms. Kaylyn Harris

Aditya Sood has advanced as a Semifinalist in the Coca-Cola Scholars Program!

Dr. Avossa connects with AHS faculty

On January 8th Dr. Avossa came to meet with AHS faculty in the auditorium.  Mr. Hatcher was the lucky winner of a new iPad!

AHS student Benjamin Bearup featured on foxnews.com

Benjamin Bearup, 10th grade, was recently nominated for the Prudential Spirit of Community Award.  He also writes for a national magazine called Airways magazine. Over Christmas break he was flown by Airtran to Milwaukee to cover their final flight into Atlanta.  His article was picked up by Fox News. Here is the link to the story Onboard the last AirTrain flights. 

Building Community Teacher Workday

STAR Student and STAR Teacher Nomination

Alan Hesu  and Mr. Smilley