The PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades is sponsored by PAGE and the PAGE Foundation. The Academic Bowl features teams of middle school students fielding questions on subjects ranging from Georgia history to mathematics, science, literature and the performing arts. Statewide, more than 2,000 students compete at the local, regional and state levels of the PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades. It is one of several programs of academic excellence sponsored by the PAGE Foundation.

Cleveland Crocs embrace bucket brigades

Students and faculty at Cleveland Elementary have begun a tradition of honoring staff members called Bucket Brigades. Four times a year the Cleveland Crocodiles line the halls as the schools song, "Croc Rockin' at Cleveland," fills the air.

Students drop thank-you notes, appreciation pictures and sweet treats in custom-made buckets as honorees pass through the school. The Bucket Brigades are sponsored by the school's CARE (Children at Risk in Education) team and are designed to give students an opportunity to practice thanking others and to learn that they have the wonderful ability to make others feel special.

CARE team members personalize the buckets for each staff member and introduce them on the school's television system before the brigade begins. In October, Cleveland's bus drivers were honored, and the school's custodians in November. The Crocodile Cafe workers and after school staffwill be honored this spring.