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The Georgia Environmental
Protection Division has awarded Atlanta
Pubic Schools the Georgia Diesel
Emissions Reduction’s Blue Sky Award
for environmental achievement. This
is the highest honor awarded to school
systems that reduced diesel emission
pollution from their school bus fleet.
APS’ fleet of 400 buses transports 22,000
students every school day. APS has used
a combination of measures, including
grants and capital investments, to reach
its level compliance for its bus fleet.
The district has purchased new buses
with improved emissions controls,
removed older buses from its fleet
and installed emission control devises
on others. This school year, APS also added 10 new buses that operate on green diesel
technology to its fleet. This new technology represents an extensive reduction of
emissions.
Communities In Schools of Atlanta, an organization dedicated to keeping kids
in school with community support, is under the guidance of a new executive director,
Frank Brown. Brown succeeds Patty Pflum, who in addition to serving the past 18
years as executive director, was affiliated with CIS since its founding in 1972. Most
recently, Brown served as the first executive director of the Butler Street Community
Development Corporation (formerly known as the historic Butler Street YMCA). In
that position, he established year-round youth programming, launched the March
on Washington Film Festival in Atlanta, reestablished the Hungry Club Forum, and
secured partnerships with other nonprofits and governmental agencies that enhanced
the organizations healthy living and social awareness programming.
Students Precious Gibson and Melissa Moyer have received Buick Achievers
Scholarships. Each student will receive up to $25,000 that is renewable for up to four
years, and one additional year for those entering a qualified, five-year engineering
program. Gibson is attending Spelman College this fall, while Moyer is attending
Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech has been awarded a Walmart U.S. Manufacturing Innovation
Fund from Walmart, the Walmart Foundation and the United States Conference of
Mayors (USCM). Georgia Tech’s collaborative will receive nearly $2 million in funding
to further develop the project “CRAFTed With Pride in the USA.” Researchers from
Georgia Tech’s CRAFT (Center for Research in Apparel Fabrication Technologies) are
collaborating on an automated manufacturing process to create apparel, from blue jeans
to T-shirts, without a seamstress.
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School’s Speakers Series has moved this year to the
Atlanta History Center. The public event, designed to share powerful ideas, spark
discussion, and inspire change, takes place Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. This year’s theme is “Small
Stories, Big Ideas,” and speakers will include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward
Humes, author of Garbology: Our Dirty Fove Affair with Trash; Ann Daniels, record-
breaking polar explorer; Ben Foss, author of The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan; and
Alex West, co-founder of the Atlanta-based WonderRoot, a nonprofit with a mission to
unite artists and community to inspire positive social change. Also speaking is Bailey
Fyles, a 2014 graduate of Holy Innocents’ and UGA freshman, who is building a dance
rehabilitation center for victims of sex trafficking. To purchase tickets or learn more
about “Small Stories, Big Ideas,” visit HISpeakerseries.org. ESI
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NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2015
The 7th annual 20 Under 20 will appear in our January 2014 issue and we are
now seeking nominations of students 19 years old and younger who have committed
themselves to service to the community. Nominations are welcome from teachers,
counselors, administrators, parents, siblings, fellow students or community leaders.
Here’s the information we need:
• Nominator (name, relationship to nominee and contact information)
• Nominee (Name, age, grade, school, parent or guardian names, contact info)
• Characteristics and service: Please provide a paragraph describing why this
nominee deserves recognition. Include service projects, goals, interests and areas
of interest to help illustrate your point.
The deadline for nominations is Oct. 31. Please e-mail your nominations to editor
Collin Kelley at Collin@atlantaintownpaper.com.
special
Stacy Allman of Georgia’s Environmental Protec
tion Division presents the award to Larry Hoskins,
Atlanta Public Schools’ chief of operations.
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