On Tuesday, March 24th, The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences participated in the annual Lowcountry Science and Engineering Fair at the College of Charleston. Students and chaperones got in vehicles and arrived the TD Center at around 11:30 for a long but ultimately very fruitful day. Congratulations to Dr. Neubauer and the Science Department on an extremely impressive showing! More than half of the school attended and received one third of the awards, five of which were overall winners.

(by Joe Skerman)

The Kingfishers competed against the Kings Academy Lions on Monday, March 30 in Florence.  “We were overmatched but it was a good experience,” said mid-fielder Top.  The eleven Kingfishers played the entire game against the Lions’ deep bench and showed they were in excellent shape!  Grayson’s goal was a highlight: ” I was surprised and amused that we scored!” he said.

Coach Gates and the school are proud of the guys and girls who stayed on the field the whole time and we look forward to better results soon.  Go Kingfishers!

On February 27, the normal morning schedule came to a halt for our school-wide Science Fair, an event that all of the students had been preparing for since last fall. Everyone set up their boards all throughout the main hallway, decking the hall with boughs of science. The Science Fair contained projects from various grades and had 5 guest judges: local scientists Brian Williams, Research Associate at Clemson’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Dr. Dan Hitchcock, Associate Professor at Clemson’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Maggie Senko, Data Analyst at Mercom, Heather Cox, Zookeeper at Brookgreen Gardens, and Ian McLaren, Engineer, retired.

The middle school winners included Johnathan Lambert’s “Avocado Sprouting” for third place, Jesse DeLuca’s “Can Soda Dissolve Your Teeth?” for second place, and Bronwen Bodie’s “Can Biochar Remove Pollutants from Storm Water?” for first. The high school winners included Elizabeth Exum’s “Cool Blue Luminol” for third place, Avery Rose Higgins’ “Electric Rainwater” for second place, and Lochlyn Hejl’s “Puddles and Pavement” for first place. Ninth grader Chris Attias won an award for Best Theoretical Application with “Tanking Under Pressure: Building a Device to Store Hydrogen.” Top (Thomas) Lee won best overall project with “Investigating the Microbial Consortium Within Pseudoceratina Crassa and Its Surrounding Seawater Using Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization.” All students who participated in this year’s science fair will proceed to the College of Charleston’s 35^th annual Lowcountry Science Fair on March 24.

by Savanna Morris and Top Lee

  The Georgetown School won big at the SCISA Math Meet (Division II), held at the Sumter Civic Center on January 20.  Thirty-six teams from twenty-four schools around the state turned up to show their skills, both individually and as teams.  First, all the students individually took an hour-long written test comprised of 50 questions, then the teams faced off in five speed rounds.

Ninth-grader Christopher Attias placed first overall in the individual competition, beating 180 other students. Great job, Chris!

The Georgetown School captured 7^th place in the team competition, outscoring twenty-eight of the thirty-six teams.  “This was our first time at the SCISA Math Meet and I am extremely proud of our team’s performance and our math program,” said Dr. Gates, “We were probably the smallest school there!” Congratulations on a job well done to Math Team members: Christopher, Elizabeth, Sarah E., Nathan, and Top.

    Nervous, excited and hopeful, 62 third- to eighth-graders from seven area schools turned up January 15 at the Winyah Auditorium, where The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences was hosting the 2015 SCISA Regional Spelling Bee.  Grade by grade, they took their places on the stage to spell words such as wanderlust, ampere, coloratura, vivisection and potash, while the audience of teachers, parents and friends held its breath awaiting the outcome of each spelldown.

Ryleigh Neubauer, seventh-grader, came in first place for her grade and will advance to the SCISA State Spelling Bee in February. She is continuing the tradition begun by her older sister Isabella, who made it to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee four years in a row. Great job, Ryleigh! Congratulations to our other TGS participants who did a good job too: Tiyon, John Grey, Camille, Johnathan and Jesse.

Thanks to Dr. Gates for pronouncing, to all our volunteers, to people who contributed food for the bake sale and to the Winyah Auditorium for use of its space. Special thanks to Mrs. Crosby and Dr. Neubauer for organizing this annual event so successfully.