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Montessori marks School Choice Week
More than 9,000 schools take part
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Some of the students pose wearing special scarves for National School Choice Week. - photo by Photo by Shana Statham
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Updated: Feb 28, 2015, 5:55 PM
Published: Feb 26, 2015, 6:19 PM

Richmond Hill Montessori Preschool held a special event last month to celebrate National School Choice Week.
This event featured pre-k and kindergarten classes dancing to the NSCW theme song, “Rather Be” by Clean Bandit as well as marching around campus in support of National School Choice Week.
Richmond Hill Montessori Preschool is a private school serving grades pre-k and kindergarten, with a student enrollment of 200. It was one of more than 9,000 schools that participated in National School Choice Week. The goal of the Week, observed annually, is to shine a spotlight on all types of education options for children — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online learning and homeschooling.
“We are excited to have RHM participate in National School Choice Week with this special event,” said Andrew Campanella, National School Choice Week president. “It is because of great events like this that National School Choice Week, in Georgia and across the country, broke records as the largest and most influential celebration of educational opportunity in American history.”

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Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.
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Updated: May 17, 2018, 8:11 PM
Published: May 17, 2018, 8:37 PM

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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