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We will offer an optional orientation/activity day for students who will be new to Dodgen MS for the 2008-2009 school year. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about the school and make new friends. This orientation session is not required. You can pick up a registration form at the front office, or click on the following link if interested Download summer_orientation_2008.doc
Dodgen students (pictured at left with coaches) traveled to Georgia State University this past Saturday to compete in the regional Science Olympiad. Our students placed 1st AND 4th in the competition! The top four teams will travel to Augusta to compete in the state competition. Each school can only send one team to state, however, so our 4th place team will have to yield to the 5th place team. What an achievement! Thank you to the many parent volunteers who assist our students! And a special thank you to teacher coaches Debbie Amodeo and Jeff Miller.
Staff member, Benedette Moore, has been supervising students interested in playing chess for several years. The chess club meets almost every Friday morning in the media center at 8:15am. Recently, a group of Dodgen students who are interested in competitive chess traveled to Alpharetta to participate in the 2008 Western Regional Chess Tournament. Our students came away with the 3rd place trophy! These students earned the right to travel to Gwinnett County to compete in the state tournament! Parent volunteer, Craig Thompson, has been gracious enough to coach the team. Check out the impressive trophy in our case at the front entrance.
I am excited to announce that very soon Dodgen MS students and staff will participate in another venture that will benefit our environment. We have entered into an agreement with the Cobb school system to pilot a program that is desgined to recycle the Styrofoam lunch trays used each day by 1,250 students and staff. This is something that our Enviromental Club has been interested in pursuing for some time. Maybe the program will soon grow to include other schools. Our staff and students are already very conscious of protecting the environment. Joyce Kemper is pictured with two full bags of aluminum cans. She collects cans at the school on a regular basis to take to the Good Mews animal shelter to help both the enviroment and animals. Also pictured are Mary Barkley and Kyle Schnitger. Notice the mound of pizza boxes behind them from a recent school event. They arranged to have all of the boxes recycled rather than simply throw them out to take up space in a landfill.
