IA in the News

Innovation Academy students showed off our Robo Dog during 11 Alive's Morning News Shout Out Segment. Click on the article title for a link to watch the video.

Nineteen of our Innovation Academy Students achieved semi-finalist status with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Isabella Gee, Yuxiang Hao, Isabella Hsiung, Chloe Lee, Iris Liu, Jay Lothe, Lalit Maheswaran, Dagmawi Mekuria, Vihaan Narvekar, Tanish Potula, Adhav Ravikumar, Mominatou Sady, Grady Schmidt, Rudra Singh, Siddhant Singh, Meghaj Tarte, Lillian Yan, Cyrus Zhou, Jeffrey Zhou

Tech Alpharetta partnered with FCS Innovation Academy to launch the Tech Alpharetta Women's Forum's STEAM Mentoring program. The goal: partner female technology executives as mentors to high school women in STEAM to improve women's representation in technology fields.

Innovation Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia was named a Build the Change Showcase School. 25 schools globally have been chosen to join the new initiative because of their intense work on climate education in a whole-school approach.

Prepare to launch! Three hundred engineering students at FCS Innovation Academy bult and launched rockets on Friday.

Binita Patel, Computer Science teacher at Innovation Academy, co-wrote and published a paper in the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators summer 2022 journal, Connections. The paper, titled "Stem Integration via Matrix Multiplication and Transformations," talks about cross-curricular mathematics and computer science activities.

Innovation's Pam Whitlock spoke at the National FETC.  "'It’s time for schools to move beyond traditional and complex computer science, [Whitlock] insists. 'Coding is an art form—coding is seeking out problems in our world and designing solutions based upon the user’s needs,' Whitlock says. 'There is so much room for creativity, human-centered design and flexibility, both in the problem identification and the design of the solution.'"

The Center for Global Health Innovation’s (CGHI) Office of Life Sciences and Digital Health (formerly known as Georgia Bio), the state’s life science trade association, presented their Teacher of the Year Award to Robert Kuhn, FCS Innovation Academy. This Helix award goes to a Georgia biotechnology high school teacher who exhibits excellence in STEM teaching and support for the biotechnology pathway.

The ISS National Laboratory, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, honored Innovation Academy TAG teacher Steve Jones with the Tony So Excellence in Education Award. The award goes to educators who "serve with the same knowledge and kindness that So demonstrated throughout his career and life." Steve Jones, the second recipient of the award, "has inspired his students to reach for the stars by igniting their creativity and encouraging them to participate in STEM activities. Using SSE programming, he helps his students gain knowledge and confidence by contributing to real science being carried out on the space station."

U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Meggin Rosner of FCS Innovation Academy in Georgia has received a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award.