GSMST Wins Several Awards at Robotics Championship

The school won first place for Webpage Design, was a finalist in the BEST Robotics game competition and also took home awards in other categories.

Local Students Finalists in YouTube's Space Lab Competition

You can vote to help send these GSMST students' project into outer space.

Three students at the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology hope their project is out of this world... Literally. Seniors Shawn Albert of Snellville and Aditya Ragunathan of Duluth, along with junior Brian Barr of Dacula entered Lenovo and YouTube's Science Lab Competition. On Wednesday, they received word that they were chosen as one of 60 finalists worldwide. The competition is for students all across the globe. Students between the ages of 14 and 18 had to design a science project to be performed in space on the International Space Station and streamed live on YouTube. The trio chose to focus on diabetes and insulin. “Our goal with this experiment is to see how microgravity and other factors in space affect insulin …

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Vanzetta Evans

3:33 pm on Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Ten Teacher Tips: Getting in Gear for the Classroom

Is your child fully prepared for getting back into the classroom? With a couple of weeks left before school starts, how can we be sure? Here is a list of 10 ideas from a teacher’s point-of-view that can help get the kids back in gear for the new school ye

1. Check with your child’s school to find out if he/she was assigned a summer reading project.   2. Jot down open house dates; it will help eliminate some of those first day of school jitters. Open houses provide students, parents, and teachers a chance to meet, discuss classroom expectations and create acquaintance. Open houses are usually the week before school. 3. While you’re out shopping for those pencils, pens and paper be sure to get plenty to last the school year—(students often run out but forget to inform their parents during the year) 4. Get those eyes checked. Many students reveal that they are having vision problems during the school year, after receiving failing grades. 5. Hand-sanitizer is a much-needed commodity. If you can…

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Tonya Grace

6:05 pm on Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Vanzetta, my daughter is challenged with getting back into the swing of things every year. A friend told me that she places her child's schedule on the mirror in the bathroom, so he sees it as soon as he wakes up. She said it works wonders. I'm going to try it this year. Wish me luck :)   more ›

Summer Fun

Explore the Environment

Kids can learn about nature and how to preserve it.

At the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center Foundation Museum in Buford, kids of all ages can learn about nature and conservation efforts. Right now, the featured exhibit is Rivers to Reef, which teaches visitors about freshwater and saltwater habitats and the creatures that live in them. Be sure to also check out the permanent exhibits, including Water Wise, Discover H2O and Blue Planet. The museum is open 9 to 4 Monday through Saturday. Admission for Gwinnett County residents is $7.50 for adults, $5.50 for students 13-22 and seniors, $3.50 for kids under 3-12 and free for those under 2.  

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Gwinnett Student Researchers Take Science to the Next Level at Regional Fair

The Gwinnett Science & Engineering Fair Feb. 4 showed the community the talents of its youth, and students the possibilities for their futures.

"One day. One community. One vision." The 33rd annual Gwinnett Science and Engineering Fair was held at Friday, Feb. 4, at its new location at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC). For the first time, the middle and elementary school science fair (the junior fair) was held at the same location, and participated in the final awards ceremony along with the high school students (the senior fair). The new GGC student center was filled with over 600 students, teacher chaperones, parent volunteers, Gwinnett County Public School (GCPS) authorities, professionals and guest speakers. GCPS Director of Science Education and director of the fair, Mary Elizabeth Davis, said this science fair is intended to bring the community together to recognize the …

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GSMST Receives $21K Donation to Purchase High-Tech Tool

The money will pay for a machine that can produce three-dimensional models of anything.

The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology received a donation to help put its students on par with those at elite engineering institutes like Georgia Tech and MIT. The Nordson Corporation Foundation is giving the Lawrenceville charter school $21,000 to purchase a Computer Numeric Control, or CNC, mill.  A CNC mill is a computer-controlled device that can produce three-dimensional models of anything — including itself. "It will allow students to process from an idea to a finished product," said Chuck Lockert, engineering program manager at GSMST. "Yesterday a man with arthritis came in and wanted a walker with larger wheels so he could go outside on his porch," Lockert said. The man wanted the school to build one for him. …

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