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STAR students and teachers honored
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STAR students and teachers: (Left to right) Joanna Anglin, who teaches AP English at Heritage High School, nominated by her student Claire Ginnane (not pictured because she was attending a trip to Disney World with the Heritage High School band); Dr. Chuck Garner, who teaches Calculus to 11th and 12th grade, nominated by his student, Vaidehi Biren Joshi, center. Joshi, a senior in the Rockdale Magnet School, was also named the district STAR student and will go on to the regional competition. Solomon Sallas of Salem High School, nominated his English teacher Heather Hartley, right. - photo by Michelle Kim
Staff Report
Updated: Feb 11, 2010, 8:55 PM
Published: Feb 11, 2010, 11:59 PM

Three high school seniors were honored today for their academic achievement as STAR students by the Conyers Rotary Club. 

Solomon Lee Sallas, a senior at Salem, Claire Ginnane, a senior at Heritage, and Vaidehi Biren Joshi, a senior at the Rockdale Magnet school, were recognized as the students with the highest SAT scores and were in the top 10 percent of their class.

Each student also nominated a STAR teacher: Heritage teacher Joanna Anglin, who teaches AP English, Salem English teacher Heather Hartly, and Rockdale Magnet School teacher Dr. Chuck Garner, who teaches Calculus to 11th and 12th grade and serves as the advisor to the Math Club, were nominated as STAR teachers by their respective students.

Joshi, a senior in the Rockdale Magnet School, was also named by the Conyers Rotary Club as the district's STAR student and will go on to the regional competition.

(For more see the Feb. 13 edition of The Rockdale News)