Booth Middle School in Peachtree City was one of five middle schools statewide to be named as finalists in Georgia’s annual STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) award competition.
The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and the TAG Education Collaborative (TAG-Ed) on Oct. 4 announced the finalists for the fifth annual STEM Education awards.
“These awards were created to recognize and celebrate schools, extracurricular programs, public-private partnerships, science agencies and post-secondary education outreach programs for outstanding efforts and achievement in supporting and promoting science, technology, engineering, and math education in Georgia,” said TAG representative Tony Cooper.
Booth was among five middle schools, five elementary schools and five high schools from across the state to be named as finalists.
“We applaud each of this year’s finalists for their extraordinary efforts to bolster awareness about the importance of STEM and for their hard work to increase student participation in science, technology, engineering and math programs,” said Michael Robertson, director of TAG-Ed. “Georgia will need to fill some 211,000 STEM-related jobs by 2018, so we are pleased to showcase so many great schools, programs and organizations that are helping to develop a strong future workforce for our state.”
