Touted by USTA as one of the most promising junior players in the country,

Scoville, now 17, attended Camp Creek Middle School before withdrawing for

home study. He will be sharing his thoughts and experiences over the next

few weeks in a diary he is writing for the tennis organization's web

site, www.USTA.com.

Westlake High School senior graduates from Neuroscience Institute

Mercianna Oliver, a senior at Westlake High School, learned about neuroscience

through an innovative eight-week summer program co-sponsored by the Atlanta

Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Science National Honor Society,

Inc.

The Institute on Neuroscience program consisted of hands-on activities,

discussions and research experiences in laboratories at Georgia State University,

Emory University and Clark Atlanta University. At the end of the program,

students presented the findings from their independent projects. Oliver's

project was titled "The Effects of Different Paradigms on Submissive

Behavior in Male Syrian Hamsters."

Fulton educators selected as GIFT fellows

Twelve Fulton teachers were named 2004 Fellows in the Georgia Industrial

Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program sponsored by the Georgia Institute

of Technology. The following teachers were among 75 throughout the state

chosen to work full-time at Georgia Tech this past summer in a science or

math field.

- Larrando Alexander, Tri-Cities High School, facilitated two Tri-Cities

students who researched antibiotic resistant bacteria

-Kimberley Alston, Westlake High School, and Shannon Harris, Tri-Cities

High School, developed materials for AP Chemistry

-Arnold Best, Tri-Cities High School, conducted hormone research

-Nathan Booth, Banneker High School, developed procedures for using

SQL database

- Linda Dukes, Tri-Cities High School, researched organic light-emitting

diodes

- Douglas Edwards, Westlake High School, facilitated three Westlake

students who collected data on electronic scrap recycling

- Kelvin Griffin, Westlake High School, analyzed data on the number

of hits made to certain search engines and computer worms

- Kenyatta Stacker, Westlake High School, conducted research in environmental

engineering

-Margaret Tarver, Tri-Cities High School, facilitated the work of Fulton

County and DeKalb teachers in the GIFT program

-Emily Zeller, Tri-Cities High School, researched school funding and

public policy

School system receives award for violence prevention program

The Fulton County School System is the 2004 recipient of the Jeff L. Townsend

Award, sponsored by the Georgia Children's Trust Fund Commission. The

award recognizes Fulton's integration of the Second Step violence prevention

curriculum, a program that addresses anger management, impulse control, and

empathy in grades pre-k through nine. The award and a $1,000 grant was presented

to Health and Physical Education Coordinator Therese McGuire and Peter Gaddis,

Safe and Drug Free Schools program administrator, at the Commission's

summer symposium