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)!



Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Thursday, February 16, 2023

2022 People of the Year!


 Congratulations to our teacher of the year Bree Nieves!



Congratulations to our professional of the year Kelly Talele!

Culinary Serving First Responders!




             Alpharetta High School culinary creates a delicious spread for our local first responders!

FIRST Technical Challenge West League Regionals!

 

Congratulation to Raiders of the A.R.C.-Team Black! For winning the West Georgia League tournament. This invites them to participate in the State Competition on February 19th in Gainesville GA. Congratulations to both teams Crimson and Black for a wonderful FTC Season.

Alumni News!


Suchetas Bokil is ringing in the new year as the first South Asian president of the Harvard Lampoon, a 146-year-old nationally circulated humor magazine run by Harvard students.
 Bokil, who grew up in Alpharetta, entered Harvard in 2020 after graduating from Alpharetta High School, but comedy wasn’t a part of his original plan. “I used to love consuming (comedy) but I don’t think it’s ever something I thought of as a serious field to study or dive into,” Bokil said. He chose to major in government and politics, then dove into politics-oriented extracurriculars his first year of college. Soon, he was drawn in by the looming Harvard Lampoon building he called “mysterious.” Bokil applied to the Harvard Lampoon his freshman year but got cut in the final round of applications. It left him with enough interest that Bokil applied again in the fall of his sophomore year and got in. “Not only do I enjoy consuming it and seeing it happen, but the chance to make that comedy is really special,” Bokil said. 





Emory University Barkley Forum Tournament!

    The debate team competed at the Barkley Forum Tournament at Emory University over the weekend.  The team of Eshan Momin and Anish Thatiparthi were the Champions of the tournament!   This is one of the 5 traditional regular season “majors” that all of the top teams in the country compete at each year.  This marks the first time that Alpharetta has won one of the majors. Congratulations to Eshan, Anish, and the entire debate squad that helped them achieve this major championship on the national circuit.



FBLA 2023 Region Conference



The following are our 1st place winners:

Zayn Ullah for Accounting I, Zayn Ullah for Business Calculations, Ananya Katella for Business Management, Kailash Muthukumar for Electronic Career Portfolio, Sameer Jivangikar, Tanishk Deo and Samay Desai for Entrepreneurship, Eshan Momin, Samay Desai, & Tanishk Deo for International Business, Elizabeth Feng for Intro to Business Communication, Kareena Mehta, Saranya Vemireddy, & Shuktika Yadav for Intro to Event Planning, Jaisharan Kumar for Intro to Information Technology, Risha Kohli, Saranya Vemireddy, & Rajeswari Anand for Intro to Business Presentation, Shreya Sunil for Public Speaking, Sami Awad, Ashmit Dua, & Zain Ghazanfar for Sales Presentation, James Chen, Isha Nathan, & Olivia Peng for Sales Presentation, and Shreyas Arisa, Karni Rathod, and Krishna Sripathi for Website Design.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Paraprofessional & Teacher of the Year Finalists!

 


Teacher Finalists
             Chef Webber, Tolga Ayan, Karla Estrada Lacey McLemore, & Bree Nieves

Professional Finalists!
Robert BennetLandis Ross, & Kelly Talele

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Football Signing Day!

 


Alpharetta High School recently held another signing day! Seniors from the football team celebrated as they signed with colleges and their football teams. 

Ben Guthrie - Georgia Institute of Technology

Ben Henry - Amherst College

Kenyon Pipes - Alabama State University

William Reed - Tulane University

Garret Young - United States Air Force Academy

Monday, February 6, 2023

Electives Fair!



Alpharetta High School had an elective fair! Students meandered around the gym searching for a table that caught their eye to find an elective for their next year's schedule.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

KSU Mathematics Competition!

     


The KSU Mathematics Competition is an annual mathematics contest for Georgia high school students, both public and private. Part 1 consists of a convenient 90 minute block of time during or after the school day at the students’ own high school. There are 25 multiple choice questions, ranging in difficulty, covering all levels of pre-calculus mathematics included in the Georgia state high school mathematics curriculum. The highest scoring student in our school was Eric Sun!

Monday, January 9, 2023

AP World History in the Media Center!

Ms. Jolle’s AP World History class in the Media Center!!!  The assignment required students to compare the effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Europeans, Africans, and/or Amerindians during the period 1500-1750.  Students were able to work independently, with a partner, or with Ms. Jolle.

PAGE STAR Student Awards!

 The PAGE Student Teacher Achievement Recognition or STAR program allows students with the highest levels of academic achievement to regale a teacher of their choice. This year two students with SAT scores of a 1590 have been chosen. Congratulations to Pranav Kalaga Leo Guan and their nominated teachers Mr. Anthony Murdoch and Ms. Kelly Evers!

           Mr. Anthony Murdoch and Mr. Pranav Kalaga
Ms. Kelly Evers and Mr. Leo Guan