Fulton Sunshine Academy - FSA Elementary School

Congratulations to Fulton Sunshine Academy Science Olympiad Team!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:03:00 -0700

Fulton Sunshine Academy’s Science Olympiad Team placed 6th overall at the Georgia State Level Elementary Science Olympiad Competition on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at Kennesaw State University!

Congratulations to all the Science Olympiad Team Members: Ashay Bongirwar, Ahmet Cetin, Ben Coers, Nikhil Dasari, Sten Erickson, Jake Fernandez, Ariana Islam, Shriya Karamched, Mohana Malapati, Sireen Mohammed, Shreyas Nayak, Shriya Nayak, Rayaan Rahman, Vinod Ruppa-Kasani, Nuran Sercan, Karina Shah, Shreya Sunil, Anvitha Suram, Rohan Vishnubhotla, George Wen.

Congratulations to the following students who placed at the state competition in their event:

2nd Place: Which Way is North: Shriya Nayak and Anvitha Suram

2nd Place: Starry, Starry Night: Ashay Bongirwar and Rohan Vishnubhotla

5th Place: Water Rockets: Sten Erickson and Ahmet Cetin

5th Place: Bridge Building: Nuran Sercan and Jake Fernandez

6th Place: Disease Detectives: Shriya Karamched and Anvitha Suram

9th Place: Leaves and Trees: Mohana Malapati and Sireen Mohammed

10th Place: Deep Blue Sea: Shreyas Nayak and Shriya Nayak

10th Place: Grasp a Graph: Rayaan Rahman and Rohan Vishnubhotla

These students are to be commended, as they competed against 64 teams at thelargest ESO competition in the nation with 1300 students competing!!!

Congratulations to the Fulton Sunshine Academy Math Team for winning 2nd Place at the Cheetah Cup Math Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 8 May 2015 13:44:00 -0700

Congratulations to the Fulton Sunshine Academy Math Team for winning 2nd Place at the Cheetah Cup Math Competition on Saturday, April 25, 2015!!!

Over two hundred 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students, representing 23 schools participated in the 6th Annual Cheetah Cup, a Math Olympiad Competition hosted by the Creek View Elementary Academic Bowl Team.

Congratulations to the members of our 4th and 5th grade math teams, listed below:

2nd Place – 4th Grade Team: Kevin Yuan, Maxwell Wang, Niklas Knudsen, Ansh Shah, Rohan Vishnubhotla
5th Grade Team : Ashay Bongirwar, Alex Xu, Shriya Nayak, Simran Shah, Siddharth Vijayasankar

Georgia's First Lady Sandra Deal visits Fulton Sunshine Academy on May 6, 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 6 May 2015 13:49:00 -0700

Georgia's First Lady Sandra Deal visits Fulton Sunshine Academy on May 6, 2015 for Teacher Appreciation Week.

Fulton Sunshine Academy Destination Imagination team wins 1st Place at GA State Tournament 3 years in a row!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:52:00 -0700

On Saturday March 28th, 2015, the FSA Destination Imagination team won the GA State Affiliate Tournament for three consecutive years. This year, the team is comprised of two (2) students, Viveca Harjani and Njeri Lewis, both 5th graders. A typical team can be up to 7 team members, however despite being a small team this year, the FSA DI team won 1st Place in the Technical Team Challenge. They also scored the highest points in every category in the Technical Team Challenge. In addition, the team won 2nd place in the Instant Challenge, spontaneous problem solving. When the trophy and medals were presented to the FSA team by the GA DI Affiliate Director, he commented that anything is possible in DI and he used the FSA team of two (2) students as an example for achieving great things against all odds.

The year, the Technical Team Challenge was to build a creature that uses technical methods to perform team-chosen actions, presented in a story of an adventure with the creature. Using technical methods, the team also demonstrated features of a world where the story is set.

Congratulations to the team members, their parents and coach, Mrs. Lauren Lewis, for an excellent job done. Special Thanks goes to the FSA administration and Ms. Judge, the school's DI coordinator for their support.

The team will advance to the 2015 DI Global Finals which will be held on May 20th - May 23rd in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Fulton Sunshine Academy Prints First 3D Object with its new 3D Printer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:06:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy Robotics Team Wins Georgia Championship 2 years in a row!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:01:00 -0800

Atlanta, GA -- Disaster Blaster, a student team from Fulton Sunshine Academy Elementary School located in North Fulton County, was awarded the Championship Award at the FIRST Lego League (FLL) State Championship held in Atlanta, GA at Georgia Institute of Technology on January 24th, 2015.

It’s the second consecutive year the team won the championship.

FLL is a Robotics competition held annually in cities around the world and is rapidly gaining popularity in Georgia. There are over 265,000 teams across 80 countries that participate in this competition. In the State of Georgia, over 500 teams of students ranging from age 9 to 14 years competed. The theme this year was World Class. The team was challenged with how to improve an area of learning in the 21st century.

After extensive research and interviewing 5 different schools and education specialists in different roles, the Disaster Blaster team decided that bullying is a common challenge in all schools and there were no viable solutions to prevent it. There were 2 main challenges with bullying - the students were bystanders and the teachers did not have a way to separate fact from fiction. In addition, the school administration did not have good reporting on type of bullying and the location where bullying was happening.

Disaster Blaster team came up with an application on a bullying prevention portal that had a module for parents and admins to capture bullying related incidents and another module to help the administrators get statistics on the type and location of bullying by grades. This reporting can also be used by the parents to get bullying related information on schools across the nation if this is rolled out to all the schools.

“It is indeed a remarkable achievement for a team made up of 5th grade students to compete alongside 8th graders and emerge as champions and we are honored to represent Fulton County and Georgia at the international level again, 2 years in a row,” said Murat Cetin, Fulton Sunshine Academy’s principal. “Congratulations to these students and their families who helped the Disaster Blaster reach such a goal.”

Team Disaster Blaster consists of six elementary school children coached by parent volunteers. The students are Abhiram Vangapandu, Aditya Munamarty, Nikhil Dasari, Nishanth Chandran, Radeen Abree Dixon and Varun Vijay. At the FLL World Class competition in St Louis, MO our fifth graders will be competing with over 100 teams across 80 counties all over the world. For four days during the World Festival the team will be immersed in innovative solutions, ideas and robotics all day.

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Robotics team Techno Pandas received Championship award and represented Georgia at World Festival 2014 in St. Louis.

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About Fulton Sunshine Academy

Fulton Sunshine Academy is a tuition-free charter school located in Roswell, Georgia. Its mission is to instill a love of learning in a nurturing environment through engaging and stimulating learning opportunities. Fulton Sunshine Academy will shut down at the end of 2014-15 school year per Fulton County Schools Board decision.

Fulton Sunshine Academy student Siddharth Vijayasankar receives 1st place in K-5 at 2015 #GA #MLK #Chess Tournament

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:58:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy Elementary School #Chess Team Receives 3rd Place in 2015 #MLK Chess Tournament

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:56:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Disaster Blasters advances to Georgia Tech FLL Georgia State Championship!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:14:00 -0800

Congrtulations! The team Disaster Blasters made it to the State Championship to be held in Georgia Tech on Jan 24th.

The team members comprised of Aditya Munamarty, Varun Vijay, Nishanth Chandran, Radeen Dixon, Abhiram Vangapandu and Nikhil Dasari.

90 teams competed in the Super Regionals and the top 30 made it to the State. The team was also placed second in the Robot Performance category.

Fulton Sunshine Academy Students, Parents and Staff enjoy Internatioal Night

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:43:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy has placed in the top 10 in 8 subjects out of 15 among State Public Elementary Schools

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:40:00 -0700

Fulton Sunshine Academy Celebrates Dr. Seuss Week!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:19:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas is FLL Athens State Champion!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 3 Feb 2014 06:04:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy Elementary School FLL Team, TechnoPandas was awarded the Championship Award at the FIRST Lego League (FLL) State Championship held in Athens, GA on February 1st, 2014. Techno Pandas is now qualified for FLL World Festival and will represent Georgia in St. Louis in April.

FLL is a robotics competition held annually all over the world and is rapidly gaining popularity in Georgia. Over 500 teams of students aged 9 to 14 years competed in the State of Georgia this year. The theme this year was Nature’s Fury. Each team identified a specific severe weather situation and a problem associated with it. The teams had to then came up with an innovative solution to the problem.

It is indeed a remarkable achievement for a team made up of 5th grade students to compete alongside 8th graders and emerge as champions.

Good luck in World Festival at St. Louis in April!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas Receives 2 awards, Best Score in FLL Super Regional and Qualifies for FLL State Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:20:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas Receives Robot Mechanical Design and Robot Performance awards (the only team with two awards).

Techno Pandas also made the Best Score in FLL Super Regional competition. Team Qualifies for the FLL State Competition which will be held in Athens on February 1st!

Congratulations and good luck in Athens!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Panda Robotics Team receives Programming Award and qualifies for Super Regional!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:01:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Panda Robotics Team receives Programming Award and qualifies for Super Regional! Congratulations to Techno Pandas!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Disaster Blasters Receives 1st Place and qualifies to compete in Super Regional!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 7 Dec 2013 18:57:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Disaster Blasters Receives 1st Place in qualifier Robotics Competition and qualifies to compete in Super Regional! Good luck in Super Regionals!

Congratulations Fulton Sunshine Academy 4th Grade Student Siddharth!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:29:00 -0800

Siddharth competed at the 2013 Georgia K-12 Grade Level Championship Chess Tournament last Saturday and placed 2nd in the 4th grade level competition. Congratulations Siddharth!

Congratulations to Fulton County 2014 Water Calendar Art Contest Winners!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:14:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy students won 3 out of 12 first prize winners ! Congratulations to our students!

Fulton Sunshine Academy observed Veterans Day on November 11

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:16:00 -0800

Fulton Sunshine Academy hosted Veteran Mr. Mitiu as guest speaker on Nevember 11th.

"A Rainbow All Around Me" by Fulton Sunshine Academy Kindergarten and First Grade Students

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"A Rainbow All Around Me" by Fulton Sunshine Academy Kindergarten and First Grade Students

Letter from a Fulton Sunshine Academy Teacher to her students

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:55:00 -0700

Letter from a Fulton Sunshine Academy Teacher to students

Sanjeev Uppaluri, a fifth grader at Fulton Sunshine Academy placed third in the national finals of the National Geographic Bee

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:33:00 -0700

Sanjeev Uppaluri, a fifth grader at Fulton Sunshine Academy in Roswell, placed third in the national finals of the National Geographic Bee May 22 hosted by "Jeopardy!" personality Alex Trebek in Washington, D.C.

Sanjeev Uppaluri was the youngest student in the top 10 at 2013 nationals, and he received $10,000 as a scholarship from National Geographic Society.

Photo by Rebecca Hale / National Geographic

Junior FLL Team of Fulton Sunshine Academy, Pouncing Pandas receives Master Programmer Award in International World Festival Expo Robotics Competition!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:00 -0700

Fulton Sunshine Academy Junior FLL Robotics Team, Pouncing Pandas received Master Programmer Award in the International Robotics Competition called World Festival Expo. Fulton Sunshine Academy students, Mohana Malapti, Aliya Heinisch, Varun Vijay, Nishanth Chandran were 4 of the 10,000+ students from around the globe travelled to St. Louis, MO to compete in well respected world-wide Robotics competitions.

Fulton Sunshine Academy K-5 Chess Team is Georgia State Chess Champion!

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Fulton Sunshine Academy student, Sanjeev Uppaluri is Geography Bee Georgia State Champion!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:25:00 -0700

Sanjeev Uppaluri placed first at the 2013 Georgia State Geographic Bee competition held on Friday, April 5, 2013 at Georgia College (GCSU) in Milledgeville,GA after a four-hour contest that included 90 state finalists from across the state. He will represent Georgia State at the National Geography Bee on May 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C.