Sunshine

We had a great response to our Open House last Saturday, with around 250 families attending. Thank you for letting your friends and neighbors know about our school. We will hold our lottery tomorrow for students whose applications were received by 5PM last Monday.

Sincerely,

Murat Cetin, Principal

Our team won 2 first places, 3 second places and 1 third place.

Students who won and their categories are;

• David Reynolds 1st Place in 3D Modeling
• Cooper Vance 1st Place in Case Modification
• Owen Carney 2nd Place on Digital Photography
• Raven Galfas 2nd Place in Case Modification
• Shannon Carney 2nd Place in Case Modification
• Praneeth Kolichala 3rd Place in Project Programming

Congratulation to FSA ES Tech Fair students!

Two chess teams from our school, (K-3) and (K-5) competed in the 2012 Northern Metro Atlanta Regional Chess Tournament last Saturday. The K-3rd grade team won 2nd place and K-5th grade team won 5th place.

The winning K-3 team included Yush Balaji, Ahmet Cetin, Nishanth Chandran, Pranav Devalapalli, Dennis Green, Yashad Gurude, Praneeth Kota, Purvi Nandakumar, Akhil Posa, Ani Purohit, Vinod Ruppa-Kasani, Siddharth Vijayasankar, Alex Xu.

Hakan Aktas, Varad Gurude, Matthew Kennedy, Nischal Pawar, Sahil Posa, Vishal Vijay, and George Ye were members of the winning K-5 team. Job well done FSA ES Chess Champions!

Our school spelling bee winner, Nithya Mahakala, competed last night in the Fulton County Schools spelling bee at Mount Olive Elementary School. She placed tenth out of 72 students.   We are so proud of her!

Our 4th grade rookie robotics team, the Cyber Pandas, competed in the FIRST Lego League at the Wheeler Regional qualifier tournament on Saturday December 10th.  The Cyber Pandas won the THIRD PLACE CHAMPIONS AWARD for best overall achievement in four categories and will go on to represent FSA at the Super Regional competition in mid-January. They competed against 24 other teams ages 9-14. Judges said they embodied everything that is the FIRST Lego League (FLL).

Job well done... Cyber Pandas: Andy, Izaac, Jere, Kaden, Manasi, Pratham and Sai!!

The Cyber Pandas would like to thank their sponsor Aloha Mind Math in Alpharetta for their support and contribution!

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Jett: Finley Link

Stapleton:

Dallas: Salma Hassan

Howie: AJ Green

Congratulations Team Pandamonium! Our 5th grade FLL Robotics teams, Pandamonium and Roborockers, competed in the First Lego League at the Gwinnett Open on Saturday 12/3.  Team Pandamonium won two 1st place trophies for Robotics Competition and Best Mechanical Design.  They competed against other middle schoolers and came out on top.  Job well done... Team Pandamonium; Aditya, Joe, Sarah, Tyler, Vincent and Vibhu and Team Roborockers Eemil, Charles, Braden, and Mihir!

Team Pandamonium would like to thank their sponsors RY Robotics Explorers, Roswell GA and The School Place of Roswell for their support and contribution!

Please be aware that we follow the Fulton County School calendar, so if Fulton County Schools are closed, we are closed too.   As we are getting into that time of year when wintery precipitation can cause school cancellations or delayed school openings, we’d like to remind you to listen to local radio or TV stations for any advisements about Fulton County Schools.

FSA Elementary Administration and Staff are making every effort to continually improve the After School Program in order to best serve the safety and well-being of each student.  For your convenience and for the safety of the students, we have implemented a method for parents/guardians to contact the ASP program directly.  You may contact the ASP staff between the hours of 2:30 pm and 6:00 pm at (404) 913-1494 to notify them of any changes or incidents that would impact your student(s). 

1st grader Alex Xu from Ms. Jalovick's class took top honor at 2011 Georgia State Grade Level Chess Championship. Over 300 students competed in the event held at Campbell High School on October 15th. Alex turned in an amazing performance and won first place in the first grade section on his 7th birthday! Congratulations Alex!

Please make note of this new change to carpool, effective November 1st!!!

• The 1^st carpool will end at 2:50. The 2^nd carpool (after clubs) will end at 4:00.

• Any students not picked up at the end of either carpool will be taken to ASP (After School Program) and parents will be charged $8/hour for care.

• After carpool has ended, parents MUST come inside to pick up their child in ASP.

• Payment, in the form of either cash or check, payable to FSA ES, is expected when you pick up your child from ASP.

November 2, 2011 was an unforgettable day for the students, faculty, administration and parents of Fulton Science Academy Middle School. In recognition of their 2011 National Blue Ribbon School Award, FSA MS held an exciting celebration to honor their student body and the entire school community for their hard work and commitment to excellence.

The Blue Ribbon award is the highest honor the U.S. Department of Education bestows upon individual schools.  The school is the first charter school ever in the state of Georgia to receive this prestigious national award. This achievement was based on FSA students testing among the highest performing schools in Georgia on state assessments in reading/language arts and mathematics.

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