Spring 2016

We Salute

Naisa Rahman and Iris Liu were named Brookwood's PAGE Foundation STAR Award students. Both named Mr. Kling as the most instrumental teacher in their academic development.

Seniors Myles Swaby and Michael Bowler each earned a President's Volunteer Service Award. Myles volunteers with HOPE Family (Helping Others through Prayer and Effort). Michael is actively involved with Gwinnett Special Forces, a sports organization connected with Special Olympics for special needs adults.

Iris Lui entered her poetry in the Scholastic Arts & Writing Award competition and earned eight (8) Regional Gold Keys at the state level. On the arts side, 23 students earned a total of 27 Gold Keys, three of whom advanced to win silver medals at the national level: Raleigh Wunderlich, Sarah Parker and Liana Nowak.

Emma DeJarnette, Brookwood Orchestra's first chair violist, was named to the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America and will perform at Carnegie Hall and throughout Europe this summer.

Claire Ofotokun won first place in Georgia's PTSA Reflections Dance Choreography category, one of only 256 students out of 2,111 to advance to the state level in dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and the visual arts.

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We Translate to Success

The following students earned gold medals in their national language exams.

French

Molly McTier

March Saad

Alexandra Cetatoiu

German (Level 1)

Allen Moore

Aleetha Samuel

John Bohannan

Jasser Ahmed

Nadia Hepburn

Latin

Abby Folds

Alex LaBarre

Alex Ragan

Avery Freeman

Caitlin Malanoski

Latin (continued)

Cordelia Martin

Earl Hamilton

Emily Dover

Emma Thacker

Jabril Muhammad

Katherine Normil

Khang Dao

Mary-Margeret Dyer

Noham Muluneh

Nolan Jaeger

Stephen Ito

Summra Akalework

Taryn McGlathery

TJ Jakim

Trevor Gulley

Emily Meyer

Cassie Castaneda

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Seniors Liz Reeves and Hans Kind were crowned Prom Queen and King.

A MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL FORD

Greetings!


	Senior Grace Lynch accepted a cross country scholarship from Georgia College & State University and received the Gwinnett County PTA Scholarship.

A handful of numbers is all I need to illustrate the impact of our students and faculty this year.

8 Our Science Olympiad team won Brookwood's eighth state championship title in nine years.

10 Brookwood faculty earned ten teacher, coach and media specialist of the year awards: Cindy Quinlan, Carrie Settles, Christophe Powers, Greg Pucket (2 awards), Jennifer Maloney, Kelly Swanson, Stephen George, Dru Ulloa and Jan Wilson.

93.3 For the second consecutive year, Brookwood has earned the top College and Career Ready Performance Index among Gwinnett County schools.

162,578.98 Students and staff surpassed last year's $100K Challenge by more than 50 percent donating funds and goods for local and national charities.

1,942,742 Our graduating seniors have been awarded nearly $2M in athletic scholarships. We estimate close to 325 honor graduates will wrap up their high school careers with an average GPA of 90 or higher.

To me, these numbers make Brookwood the No. 1 school in America.

Go Broncos!

William Bo Ford, Jr.
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We Mean Business

FBLA Qualifies 29 for Nationals,
Earns Chapter of the Year

Pictured are Alyssa Tumale, Shane Lakhani and Stephen An, who were among the 29 Broncos to qualify for the Future Business Leaders of America national competition. This trio won first place at State in the Public Service Announcement category.

Broncos Swim with the Sharks

Students Matthew Lescota and Malachi Picart won the City of Snellville's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in a Shark Tank model competition among student businesses at Brookwood and South Gwinnett high schools.

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We Reign

Brookwood Athletics earned five varsity region championship titles this spring and eight overall for the school year. Congratulations again to all four of our Cross Country teams (Boys Varsity, Girls Varsity, Boys JV, Girls JV), Volleyball, Baseball, Girls Golf, Girls Tennis, Girls Track & Field and Boys Soccer.

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We Practice, Practice, Practice

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Brookwood Orchestra has earned an invitation to perform at the famous concert hall in March 2017 as part of the New York Invitational Music Festival. Stay tuned for details and fundraisers.

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