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Sherwood Takes Future Cities’ Grand Prize

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All of these teams represented SCA well in the competition last Saturday, January 24th in Atlanta, Ga.

Team Aquila Island

Julia Warbington, Dawson Whatley, Caleb Carr, Natalie Brock and Ana Skidmore

Team Powerville

Austin Roach-Delk, Payton Chambless, Thomas Waller, Hayden Rish, Harry Merritt

Team Crossway Village

Cameron McDonald, Jared Higdon, Nathan Roberts

Team Leelaville

Alex Love, Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Rigsby, Laurel Ann Wilkerson and Liza Langstaff

Won Best Transportation Award

Team Dorado Province

Nathanael Sancinito, Emily Whatley, Andre Orr

Won award for Most Sustainable Food Production and Best Futuristic City and…

The Grand Prize of Regional Champions for the State of Georgia

These three received a piece of luggage to use on their all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. in mid-February. There they will compete against 37 other regions in our nation’s Capitol for a chance to win the National Grand Prize of two weeks at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala. There they will go through astronaut training for two weeks this summer; a prize valued at over $3000 for each of them. In Washington, not only will they compete in the Future City event, but they will visit many museums, go on bus tours of the city, eat in some of the city’s finest restaurants, and possibly get to visit the White House and be honored as some of the nation’s best engineering and scientific thinkers of 2015.

These three students have worked tirelessly on their own time since school started. Since 7th and 8th graders were not required to participate in Future City as a class project this year, it is very admirable that they decided to add this heavy workload to an already full academic schedule. David Orr and Chuck Sancinito mentored the groups this year, providing valuable feedback as Emily, Nathanael, and Andrew worked through possible solutions to growing food items in an urban setting. Kim Sancinito worked with all this year’s Future City teams helping them prepared for their oral presentations, giving suggestions on how to answer any possible questions that the judges might ask.

Let’s congratulate all these students on their hard work this year and especially Team Dorado Province. They have all represented Sherwood Christian Academy well!

Author, Vickie Davis

WALB’s Player of the Week: Chaznic Griffin #11

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SCA’s own Chaznic Griffin was selected as WALB’s Player of the Week, the week of October 8th, 2014. We are so proud of Chaz’s many accomplishments on and off the field. It takes a team to make individuals talent shine, so a big congratulations to the entire team for this award! To watch the television spot on Chaz’s award click here. Below is an excerpt from the spot.

ALBANY, GA (WALB) –Sherwood Christian’s first season in the GICAA is going swimmingly, and it seems they’ve found a budding star in junior Chaznic Griffin.

Griffin helped the Eagles blow out previously undefeated Thomas Jefferson Academy Friday night, and he did it on both sides of the ball.

SCA lead 27-7 after the first quarter thanks to a pair of Griffin receiving touchdowns.

But he put the exclamation point on the victory in the fourth quarter when he returned an interception 70 yards for a score.

So which way does he prefer to score: offensively or defensively? He says it doesn’t matter.

“The defensive one was more exciting, but they’re both equal to me because they both help the team,” he says.

The Eagles are now 4-1 with the big win, which Griffin credits to a week of working hard in practice.

“We knew we were playing a good team, so we prepared and we executed in practice and that played over to the game,” he says.

Elementary Beam Signing

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On August 19, the elementary students were bused to the upper campus to sign a beam that will hang in the new elementary building currently under construction. They were excited to be out at the upper campus to see the construction and be a part of this building process. The variety of signatures and personalities were interesting to see, and boy were they well behaved!

Great job elementary school! We can’t wait until we are all at the same campus next year.

Groundbreaking

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On Wednesday, July 30 at 9:30 a.m. the executive team of Sherwood Baptist Church and Sherwood Christian Academy will officially break ground on the new construction at 1418 Old Pretoria Road.

The new facilities will include eight elementary classrooms, a new kitchen and cafeteria, a media room, a new reception area and new administrative offices. Improvements to current structures will also be made. Those enhancements include bricking the exterior of existing buildings, adding energy efficient doors and windows, improving classroom lighting and a renovating the science lab.

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SCA Headmaster, Dr. Brian Dougherty says, “I am looking forward to the impact this project will have on our school. The additional facilities and the upgrades will help us better serve our current families as well as the future generations yet to come to SCA.”

All of the changes are intended to position SCA for the future, while unifying its two campuses into one location. The unification will improve the functionality of the school as a whole and allow for better use of staff talent and skill’s across the school as a whole.