Pink Out Night

Congratulations Mr.Chester!

It is with mixed emotions that I share with you that our beloved Assistant Principal Charles Chester has just been promoted and named Principal of Northwestern Middle School!  I am confident that you share in my excitement for Mr. Chester as he moves forward in his career! I know that the Northwestern Middle School community will come to respect, admire and appreciate Mr. Chester’s leadership and dedication to students as much as we do. The NMS students, faculty and parents are so very fortunate to have Mr. Chester coming to lead their school!

Mr. Chester has been an integral leader over the past 3 ½ years in our development of Alpharetta High School into the prestigious school it is today.  He leaves a legacy of excellence, compassion and professionalism. Please save the date for a Raider Nation style Bon Voyage gathering next Thursday, October 29th at 3:45 pm in the Media Center to celebrate Mr. Chester and wish him well in this next chapter of his educational leadership journey. Mr. Chester’s principalship begins Monday, November 9th.

Congratulations Mr. Chester and best of luck! Raider Nation will miss you tremendously.

Remember, though, #AlwaysaRaider!

21 French Exchange Students Visit AHS

Twenty-one French exchange students from the Lycée Saint-Jean Hulst in Versailles, France are experiencing American culture and high school thanks to an exchange organized by AHS French teacher, Katherine Rozei and Saint-Jean Hulst English teacher Bénédicte Applegate. From October 19 – 29th, the French students are staying with AHS host families and shadowing their host brother or sister’s class schedules.  In addition to interacting with AHS French classes and taking other academic classes with their host student, the French high schoolers have made an appearance on the AHS Morning Show, attended their first football game, compared their systems of student government with the AHS Student Government, and learned how to trick-or-treat at an after-school French Club Halloween party.  On two different days, the French exchange students took field trips to Atlanta to visit the Martin Luther King Center, the World of Coke, the Atlanta History Center and CNN.   Alpharetta students will be going to Lycée Saint-Jean Hulst in April to be hosted and learn about French culture and schools.

Front row from left: Charlie Comeau, Danny Corena, Leticia Soares, Maylis Genuyt, and Lara Thorn. Second row from left: Julia Choldzynski, Caroline Faujour, Quentin Galle, Pranav Kandikuppa, Charlotte Chaplain, Rachel Gonano, Julia Volovoi, Celine Capron, and Marine Montazel.  Third row from left: Charles Lego, Aymeric Euvrard, Hugues Champault, Fabian Lefievre,  Alienor Dupont, Ines Apode, Julia Lammers, and Juliette Belmer. Fourth row from left: Benjamin Michel, Nicholas Sanchez, Paul Moreau, Emma Svitil, Sandya Vikram, Hannah Braswell, Emma Prol, Aoife Goggin, Emily Bonfanti, and Mrs. Rozei. Fifth row from left: Kalid Sudu, Adrien Etienne-Kahn, Wesley Reece, Mustafa Akbar, Derek Wang, Mrs. Toulemonde, Oliver Aubert, Nicolas Bonnet, Katrina Ristow, Thea Genet, and Mrs. Applegate.

AHs Marching Band Performance at the Northeast Florida Marching Invitational

On Saturday, October 24, the Alpharetta High School Marching Raider Band competed in the inaugural Northeast Florida Marching Invitational held on the beautiful campus of Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida. Our band gave an impressive performance and wowed the audience as well as the national panel of judges.  There were 13 bands competing representing public and private schools from Georgia and Florida. Our band placed first overall in the following captions: Individual Music, General Effect Coordination, Ensemble Visual, Color Guard, and Drum Major. Our band placed second overall in the following captions: Ensemble Music, Music General Effect, Individual Visual, and Percussion. The Marching Raider Band received the overall highest score of the day and was named the Grand Champion!! What an awesome way to end this year’s competitive marching band season. Mr. Walsh and Mr. Jenkins are very proud of the students’ hard work and dedication this year.

French Exchange Students Learn How to Be on the Morning Show

Alpharetta Welcomes Our French Exchange Students with Breakfast

Pink Out Game

Homecoming 2015

Homecoming Pep Rally

Raiders Win Homecoming Game!

Hackathon

Over one hundred high school student hackers show up at Alpharetta High School to attend workshops and code incredible projects.

National Merit Press Release

Alpharetta High School had 25 students named as Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2016 competition for National Merit Scholarship Program awards, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Row 1 (left to right): Mariana Matias James, Karan Ganta, Trevor Chun, Gloria Chan, Bethany Graulich, and Mallory Rosten. Row 2 (left to right): Suraj Masand, Jeffrey Whitney, Sree Varma Datla, Hithardhi Duggireddy, Elizabeth Cohn, Jack Rager, and Aaron Qureshi. Missing from the photo: Dhakshi Balakumar, Arsh Chopra, Emily Cooley, Ana Gonzalez, Kristin Graves, Christian Guerrero, Anthony Liu, Gaurav Malhotra, Srikar Thammishetti, Varun Verma, Wilson Wong and Jessica Yi.