Parking Permits:
Parking permit applications are available on the wheelerhigh.com main page and will be accepted in the Wheeler main office starting Mon, Jul 19.
Wildcat Daze:
Wildcat Daze has been rescheduled slightly. The event remains on Monday, August 2, 2010, but now starts at 6:00 pm. There are no specific time frames for different classes: drop in whenever it is convenient for you from 6:00 pm through the evening.
Wheeler High School was named among among the nation’s best high schools in the 2010 Newsweek Magazine’s Best High Schools in America List.
The list represents just 6% of all public high schools in the country. Criteria is based on how well students at the high school are challenged with advanced placement courses and tests. Wheeler’s ranking of 347 was a jump of 430 rankings above last year and places Wheeler as the second-highest ranked school in Cobb County.
Congratulations to our teachers, administrators and students for their hard work!
Congratulations to Dami Aladesanmi for being accepted to the Medical College of Georgia’s Student Educational Enrichment Program. This is a 7-week summer program in which students take college-level classes and volunteer in a local hospital while preparing for college. Students
also recieve a $1016 stipend.
Congratulations to our newest member of the 800 Club, Kelsey Maloney, ’11, who scored a perfect 800 on the Math portion of the SAT. Wheeler Magnet now has 62 students who have achieved a perfect score on one or more portions of the SAT.
Congratulations to Wayne Lu, who won the Clayton State University Annual Mathematics and Information Technology Contest Individual Math Champion at Clayton State University.
Congratulations to the following Magnet seniors who were named winners of $2,500 National Merit Scholarships on May 5: Jennifer Dou, who is planning a career in biology or biochemistry; Christopher Leinweber, engineering; Noah Levine, theater; Mengjie Liu, chemical engineering; and Darpan Patel, medical law.
Congratulations to Pranay Udutha and Taylor Revere for being selected to receive an Academic Scholarship from the Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation. The foundation awards academic scholarships to Cobbs’ graduating seniors from each of our schools.
Please read Directors_letter_5_13_10 regarding the recent teacher cuts.