Academics – Chatterbox

Senior Taylor Hill visits the map of four-year colleges and universities that accept the Common Application outside of the library. Members of the school counseling and college advising staff organized the information for quick reference, giving students more details about entrance exam dates, application deadlines, and newly released scholarships. “I haven’t received any acceptances at this moment, but the Common Application is the hardest part of applying to college because it’s just too much,” Hill said.

Seniors push forward to meet fall deadlines

November 17, 2019

Helping him register to take the December SAT, College Adviser Kendall Jordan assists Senior Rahmel Goode to create a login and choose the schools that should receive his scored. Jordan said his office doors are open to students in need of assistance in your journey to being college ready. “I have had at least one one-on-one interaction with 45 percent of the Class of 2020 so far,

College Adviser treasures last year with Eagles

November 7, 2019

Students from GW's Virtual Enterprise class traveled to the Annual Virtual Trade Show in New York City on April 17 to compete against students from around the world by pitching their company EyeTech, Inc. Students taking part in the pitch were (front row) Tasiyah Ferrell, Alexis Robertson, Macey McGhee, (middle row) Destiny Cooper, Jacanas Keene, Kelsei Niblett, J’Ada Barber, Carrie Dabney, (back row) Taniya Gibson, Jazlyn Edmonds, Kapone Barley, Tamasjai Reeves and Tyron Palmer.

Virtual Enterprise students take honors at trade show

April 30, 2019

Getting his first look at virtual reality, Kaizhon Carter, 9, looks at the characteristics of the tundra ecosystem and fills in his worksheet with the detail he sees. For their first virtual reality lab, students viewed examples of ecosystems from across the world, using the goggles purchased by the school through a grant from Gear Up. “We affect the environment and the Earth everyday. We are science experiments ourselves,” Science Teacher Brooke Klett said.

Virtual reality allows student to explore biomes without leaving the classroom

January 28, 2019

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