Roberts wins state championship
GLHS junior Derek Roberts won the Class A state championship in the pole vault at the Georgia Olympics in Jefferson on Thursday, May 7. Roberts had placed fifth in the event as a freshman and third as a sophomore.
Also placing at the state meet was senior Josh Guthrie who finished third in the high jump and eighth in the long jump.
Science Fair winners announced
The 2009 Spring Semester Science Fair was held April 29–30 in the Ware-Jewell Activities Building. Jessica Wolinsky, Brittany Wattenbarger, and Camilla Loggins were awarded the fair's Sweepstakes ribbons.
Wolinsky received the first-place award for her project examining whether or not fingerprint patterns are passed on genetically. She found that 52% of the sibling pairs tested had the same general fingerprint pattern while only 26% of unrelated pairs did.
Wattenbarger and Loggins collaborated on a project that tested to see if the "Stroop Effect" could be eliminated by warping the words. They found that warping a word with the Stroop Effect counter-clockwise sped up a subject's reaction time. Reaction times were also increased when words were warped in a clockwise direction, but to a lesser extent. Their project received the second-place ribbon.
Houston, Shook win at Region Literary
GLHS had two winners at the Region 6-A Literary Meet held March 13 at Georgia Highlands College. Hollis Houston placed first in Girls' Essay and Taylor Shook was tops in Dramatic Interpretation.
Both students advanced to the State Meet on March 21 in Warner Robins.
Key Club attends convention
Members of the Gordon Lee High School Key Club attended the Kentucky-Tennessee District Key Club Convention March 13–15 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The GLHS club brought home seven awards for outstanding community service, including the Key Club International Distinguished Club Award. The club also won first place in the Overall Achievement category.
Susanna Yawn received the second-place award for Individual Service to the Ronald McDonald House.
