Friday, March 24, 2023

State Chess Tournament!

Alex Jesser
Srihassa Karyampudi 
Alpharetta A Team: 1st place
Ishaan Dhaneshwar, Srihassa Karyampudi, Sankar Jonnalagadda, Nate Kransfeld, Om Patil
Alpharetta B Team: 6th place, Best B Team
Alex Jesser, Anirud Racha, Max Kransfeld, Varun Rajaran, Joel Moskowitz

 AHS Chess Team made a great showing at the state tournament!  Our A Team took 1st place and B Team took 6th place. B Team won “Best B Team” Award and Alex Jesser and Srihassa Karyampudi won for going undefeated in the tournament!



AHS Reflections!

The reflection arts program is a yearly event where over 300,000 students in Pre-K through Grade 12 create original works of art in response to a student-selected theme. This 50+ year-old program helps them explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life.
Congratulations to our AHS reflections winners!

Sanghyuk Hwang – 1st place, Visual Arts

Katherine Yang - 1st place, Dance Choreography 

Aimy Ann Varughese – 1st place, Photography

Victor Huang – 1st Place, Music 

Not pictured:

Isabel Neely – 2nd place, Visual Arts 

Youth Achievement Award!

Theran Williams, has been nominated for a Youth Achievement Award at this year's Youth Achievement Luncheon, sponsored by 100 Black Men of North Metro Atlanta!


Teacher For a Day!

Alpharetta High School was pleased to welcome sixteen community and business leaders from the greater Alpharetta area for our semi-annual Teacher for a Day Event! The community members were paired up with a teacher to teach!
 

Monday, March 20, 2023

Sandy Rodney Recieves Richard C. Botsch Educational Merit Award!

For accomplishments in service and outstanding accomplishments in the tennis community. A true inspiration, Sandy Rodney is an example of a shining light in the tennis community!

Saturday, March 18, 2023

AHS Indoor Percussion Begins Defense of Class A State Title!

This past Saturday, Alpharetta Indoor Percussion attended the WGI Atlanta Regional competition hosted at North Forsyth High School. This is a sizeable event run by our international percussion and guard circuit (Winter Guard International – “WGI”).  The contest is generally attended by teams looking to compete on a national level to prepare for WGI Finals held later in April in Dayton, OH. Nine units were competing in our classification out of thirty teams in attendance this weekend. Teams came from Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, & South Carolina all to be adjudicated by a world-class panel of music educators flown in from all over the country.

Alpharetta Indoor Percussion won both the preliminary and final rounds, taking home the WGI Atlanta Regional Championship in our class for the second year in a row!





Thursday, March 16, 2023

Congratulations International Baccalaureate - March Team of the Month!


 5 Year Program Evaluation

 Frank Fortunado, Kimberly Green, Lacey McLemore, Erin Oliver, Kathleen Hubbard, Shelby Bradley, Scott Hetherington, Padma Rayalla, Vincent Martinez, Nick Phillips, Adam Smiley, Christy Jolle, Gretchen Adegbaju, Aliyah Johnson, Jillian Moore, Anne Marie Agodio, Katherine Rozei, Ana Maria Gottlieb, Claudia Romero, Kendra Magill, Michelle Levesque, Tom Hatcher, Bree Nieves, & Kevin McCray

Najia Bacha is March Teacher of the Month! Congratulations!


 

Congratulations to Janet Viafora - March Professional of the Month!


 

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Congratulations to our Scholastic Writing Award Winners!



 


Raymond Chisick with a Silver Key for “Slave”!

Alexandra Gavranovic with a Silver Key for “Deception is Our Remedy”!

Hazel Thekkekara with two Gold Keys, five Silver Keys and five Honorable Mentions, for “writing process”, “transience”, “funeral rites”, “Queen of Hearts”, “Hallucinations”, “On the Shores of Ahlbeck”, “A Patriot, Perhaps?”, “For Better or For Worse”, “The Brave New World of Technology: How the Digital Age Affects Social Stability”, “REDACTED: Science and Censorship During China’s Cultural Revolution”, “Asking for Help: The Significance of Familial Influence on School Life”, & “Tradition versus Change: Umuofian Principles that Transcend Time and Country”!

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

AHS Alumni News!

 Claire Cho is a former AHS orchestra student and is one of the best young musicians to come through Fulton County. She now lives in New York and is a winner of the CAI competition. If you can, watch her video and like it. The performer with the most likes will win the grand prize! 

Vote here!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqBntpdfqk  &list=PLwYjFfSR0hTUqy4srOCmRue0zam4uEIdQ&index=6

Event Website: https://www.caicompetition.org/copy-of-manual-grand-prize-youtube-

AHS Winter Guard Places 1st in SAPA Regional Competition!




 AHS Winter Guard claimed first place in their class at the Southern Association for the Performing Arts Regional Competition hosted at South Forsyth High School last Saturday. Both teams had a strong showing against the nearly 50 teams in attendance. The AHS Winter Guard will be gearing up for the Winter Guard International Atlanta Super Regional coming up March 25th & 26th where they will go head to head with some of the best teams in the country. 

Friday, March 3, 2023

State GHP Semifinalists!

 The Governor's Honor's Program (GHP) is a residential summer program for skilled, knowledgeable, and talented high school sophomores and juniors. GHP offers instruction that is significantly different from the typical high school classroom and is designed to provide students with academic, cultural, and social enrichment necessary to become the next generation of global critical thinkers, innovators, and leaders.

Alpharetta has 12 individuals selected for semifinalist status! 

Shreyas Arisa, Aaron Wang, & Mridula Bharathi, were nominated in the Mathematics field!

Pranav Bommareddy, Jocelyn Hung, Amogh Kondaji, & Mia Song, were nominated in the Music field!

Junyoung Byun, Hope Koehler, & Isabel Neely, were nominated in the Visual Arts field!

Hamza Mufti was nominated in the Computer Science field!

Rose Yeager was nominated in the Communicative Arts field!



Thursday, March 2, 2023

AHS Science Olympiad!

 Congratulations to our AHS Science Olympiad team for advancing to the Georgia Tech State competition on April 15th! The team participated in the University of North Georgia Regionals this past Saturday and ranked 4th among all high schools in attendance and 5th overall. 

Min Han & Victor Huang - ranked 3rd in Its About Time 

Aaron Jacob, Victor Huang, & Chirah Sampat - ranked 3rd in Code Busters

Ashley Si & Mridula Bharati - ranked 3rd in Anatomy

Hasini Namineni ranked 2nd in Chem Lab

Ayush Banerjee & Hasini Namineni - ranked 2nd in Environmental Chemistry

Ben Coeurs & Renecca Ma - ranked 2nd in Flight

Ashley Si - ranked 2nd in Forestry

Ben Coeurs and Tanish Balusu - ranked 1st in Astronomy


Advisor of the Year!

The Georgia Association of Student Councils elects a high school Advisor of the Year, and this year they have chosen Alpharetta High School's Andrew Bolin!



Wednesday, March 1, 2023

2023 Valedictorian & Salutatorian!

Valedictorian is the academic title conferred upon the highest ranked student among those graduating from an educational institution, typically based upon the highest grade point average. Salutatorian is the academic title conferred upon the second highest ranking student in the class. Named as such because at the commencement ceremony the salutatorian delivered the salutation (greeting) while the valedictorian delivered the valediction (farewell).

The Alpharetta High School Class of 2023 Valedictorian & Salutatorian are Samay Desai (Left) & Leo Guan (Right)!