Evan Walker

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Evan Walker, a seventh grader at DeRenne Middle School, is among a group of state finalist from six regions in Georgia that competed in the Georgia Council for Social Studies (GCSS) State Fair held last month at Clayton University in Morrow, GA.  Evan, with the help of his Directing Teacher, Ms. Stella Hefner, brought home the award for Best in Discipline, Class II Sociology/Social Psychology for his presentation “Arts in Public Education: Nice or Necessary.”

Each year the GCSS Georgia Social Studies Fair leads students, grades 5-12, through competition to learn, practice and perfect research processes that can be used now and in the future to make informed decisions that impact both today and posterity.  Each project is designed to show research and conclusions about the study of people and their relationships to their physical and social environment.

The Georgia Council for Social Studies purpose is to improve content, study and teaching of social sciences and social studies in all Georgia schools through the interchange of ideas and practices.  They seek to promote their goals of securing adequate recognition for the social sciences and social studies among school curricula and programs; serving as a means of inspirational and professional growth through research, meetings, and other activities; providing means of cooperative study of programs in social science curricula and methods; disseminating information through official publications, meetings, and other means concerning the achievements, purposes, and goals of the organization and cooperating in all ways possible with other professional organizations such as the Georgia Department of Education and local schools to improve the quality of education.  For more information on the GCSS, visit their website at www.gcss.net.