GCPS Names National Merit Semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has started its nationwide search for the students who will be named 2020 National Merit Scholars. As part of this first step, 72 Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) seniors have been named 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists, including 21 students from GSMST! Congratulations to all our semifinalists.

See the GCPS news release.

Teacher of the Year

We are proud to announce that Dr. Rhonda Rackley is our 2019-2020 Teacher of the Year!

Orchestra Accolades

Congratulations to the following orchestra students on being accepted to the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, two of the most elite Atlanta area honor orchestras.

For E.Y.S.O.: Olivia C., Neha G., Nevin G., Roland M., Jonathan K., Gabriel L., and Gabby N-J.

And for A.S.Y.O.: Suann K., Brandon L., and Angela L. who was named as an alternate.

Congratulations are also in order for Sasha K, Paula P, and Abbygale S on being selected to the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony Honor Orchestra. They were selected from hundreds of other Gwinnett County students after auditioning this past Saturday. Way to go ladies!

Great job orchestra students!

Congratulations to our 2018 National Merit Finalists: Jesse Chen, Jonathan J Choi, Joshua Y Chough, Nicholas M Couchara, Dawei Gao, Eyosias A Gebremeskel, Madison J Greer, Alex T Kim, Ryan T Lynch, Katherine E Spencer, Martin J Still, Julius L Tao, Abbey S Tilson (not pictured), Daniela Uribe, Emily Wang, Brandon W Woodward, Emily L Xu, Joseph Zhang (not pictured), Shawn X Zhu (not pictured).

The National Council of Teachers of English has released their ranking of literary magazines across the country for the 2017-2018 school year, and GSMST's Infinitas earned "REALM First Class," which equates to best in state.