Bragbook for June 8

Errol Rhoden III, a tuba player at Fayette County High, won a $500 scholarship sponsored by the National Band Association at the All-State Festival. He was among just six students from the state who were awarded scholarships at the festival. Students were selected from a competitive application process that included writing an essay about why he or she should receive the scholarship. In order to qualify to apply, band students had to have been selected for the All-State Band or All-State Full Orchestra for at least three years

Errol Rhoden III, a tuba player at Fayette County High, won a $500 scholarship sponsored by the National Band Association at the All-State Festival. He was among just six students from the state who were awarded scholarships at the festival. Students were selected from a competitive application process that included writing an essay about why he or she should receive the scholarship. In order to qualify to apply, band students had to have been selected for the All-State Band or All-State Full Orchestra for at least three years

Viviana Barreto Roballo of Covington and a graduate of Alcovy High School has been awarded one of only two Civic Engagement Scholarships for the incoming fall 2018 freshman class at Oglethorpe University.

Tai Lum of Johns Creek received the Outstanding Junior in Computer Science Award from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jared Turnage of Marietta received the Outstanding Senior Award from the Department of Physics and Matthew Dittrich of Lawrenceville received the Outstanding Freshman Award from the Department of Physics at The Citadel Academy of Science and Mathematics Awards Banquet on March 22.

SUNY Canton recognized Mitchell L. Mclean of Marietta for earning the highest senior cumulative grade point average in the Sports Management Bachelor of Business Administration program.

Steven Bedosky, a economics major from Douglasville was among Coastal Carolina University students who were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international business honor society, on April 4.

Paige Clark of Milton was named to the Spring 2018 Chancellor's List at Fayetteville State University.

The following local residents were recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines: Maggie Boeye and Harrison Bond of Cumming and Benjamin Hobbs of Griffin were initiated at Mississippi State University. Praveen Kaarthic Gunaseelan of Atlanta was initiated at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Chalyce Harris of Ellenwood was initiated at Tennessee State University.