Two recent graduates have received art scholarships from their respective colleges.
Sarah Green was awarded a $3000 renewable Merit Scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her primary medium is oil painting; her works have been exhibited at the Cultural Council and the Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Annual Juried Exhibition.
Langston Rockhill received a four-year Fine Arts Scholarship for $14,000 per year as an art major at Brevard College. Rockhill works both in visual art and music.
“These generous scholarships demonstrate both SCAD’s and Brevard’s confidence in the talent and training of our graduates,” said Dr. Gary Gates. “We wish Sarah and Langston all the best as they head off into what is promising to be a bright future in the arts.”
Our visual arts program is led by Mrs. Patrick. Students also receive encouragement and inspiration by visits to the school from regionally and nationally known artists such as Jonathan Green and Grainger McKoy. Sarah Green was given the opportunity to do master classes with Jonathan Green and Charles Williams through the Georgetown County Cultural Council, which also gave several other scholarships to TGS young artists and musicians.
Green’s and Rockhill’s college scholarships were awarded at the end of a very successful year of artistic achievement and recognition for the school, where several students’ works were selected to be hung at ArtFields and the Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Annual Juried Exhibition.

 

What a way to start the year!  Kingfishers and their parents gathered on the steps and the front lawn to view this most unusual of heavenly events: a total eclipse of the sun right over Georgetown.  It started slow, with a small “bite” out of the right side of the sun.  As the minutes passed, the occlusion got greater and greater until the magic moment of totality.  “I don’t remember it being this lovely,” said Laura Gates, who witnessed the total eclipse here in 1970 when she was a little girl.  “We are so lucky!”  Students and parents cheered continuously during the amazing moments of totality, then the moon was on its way again around our beautiful planet.  Many thanks to Dr. Louis Rubbo of Coastal Carolina University for his superb pre-eclipse presentation and to the Georgetown County Library for our eclipse viewing glasses.

Mrs. Montgomery’s fifth-graders did a super job at the SCISA Regional Lower School Quiz Bowl, losing to Thomas Sumter Academy by only 15 points.  Annika, Lucy, and Sophie answered a variety of questions related to history, math, science, geography, and literature.  The competition was held February 8 at LPS.  Congratulations to the small but mighty fifth grade!

 

On Thursday, March 16, Kingfishers made a school-wide trek down Highway 17S to Awendaw, home of The Center for Birds of Prey. The kids were eχcited to learn more about these beautiful creatures, and got to see some of them in a flight demonstration, and visit the avian hospital.  This trip was made possible by a grant through the Georgetown County Library.

2017 was another successful year for The Georgetown School at the Horry-Georgetown County High School Juried Art Show.  26 students from our school entered the competition, and of those, 7 were chosen.  This 27% may not seem like much, but compared to the overall acceptance rate of less than 22%, TGS did spectacularly.  All accepted pieces will be on display from April 23 to May 21 at the Myrtle Beach Art Museum. The accepted students from our school are Sarah Green, Elizabeth Exum, Lochlyn Hejl, Isabella Neubauer, Avery Rose Higgins, Grayha Hejl, and Qulex Dickerson.  Every student in the high school entered, and it must have been a hard choice for the judges because every piece was amazing.  Everyone loved all of the submitted works, and every student did extremely well. 

Furthermore, TGS had two pieces accepted to ArtFields Jr, the prestigious art competition held every year in Lake City.  Kingfisher are headed that way on April 26 to view those two works along with works by Mrs. Patrick.  Accepted artists are Riley Moore, Isabella Neubauer, Avery Rose Higgins, and Doug DeVito.  TGS is so proud of every student who entered these competitions.  Congratulations to all of our artists!

(by Ryleigh Neubauer)

Molly and Eli both won first place in essay writing at the 2017 Literary Meet on February 1. Molly  had to write about computers and social interaction while Eli had to write on politicians and privacy. Congratulations to Molly, Eli, and Mrs. Crosby for a great job! We are so proud of you and the whole team.

 

During Christmas vacation, workers began repairing window frames and scraping paint off of the cornices and columns of our school.  It is a huge job, requiring a lot of manpower and equipment. For a time, we were banished from the front porch, so all break and lunch activities shifted out towards the sidewalk. The front of the building is now complete and looks wonderful! Work continues on the sides and back of the building.

Our math team brought home TGS’s first state trophy! They won the SCISA State Math Meet, held at the Sumter Civic Center on January 17. The competition consisted of a written math test, then a lighting round where players have 60 seconds to respond to problems flashed at them on a card.

Our team (Elizabeth, Chris, Isabella, Zachary, Grayson and Ryleigh) defeated teams from all over the state, including powerhouse schools like Charleston Collegiate and Beaufort Academy, as well as local rivals Lowcountry Prep and Conway Christian.

As a team, TGS beat the scores of every other Division II school in the state, while Chris and Isabella took individual honors. Chris received the highest score overall of any student in the competition and Isabella tied for fifth place.

Our whole school (and especially our math teachers) are thrilled by this victory. We were by far the smallest school in the SCISA State Math Meet and we nailed it! Congratulations, Nerd Herd Math-letes!

 

 

 

The TGS Academic Quiz Bowl team took second place at the SCISA State Academic Quiz Bowl on Dec. 6, after winning the regional competition on November 29.  Although TGS has the distinction of being one of the smallest high schools in SCISA, we beat out much larger rivals Augusta Christian (last year’s winner), Oakbrook Prep and John-Paul II, before losing to Pinewood Prep by only 15 points.

Each round at the Quiz Bowl consists of 25 toss-up questions on topics from history, art, math, literature and more.  If a team answers a toss-up question first, they receive four bonus questions for extra points.  Tensions were high at this event, but the Kingfishers had a good time, as usual.

“Our ‘Nerd Herd’, as we affectionately call them, enjoyed the showing off their knowledge of math, science, art and literature” said Dr. Gary Gates, Head of School and quiz bowl sponsor, “Their success against schools up to ten times our size is a testament to the strength and breadth of our curriculum.”