Student Leadership Johns Creek Hosts Virtual Graduation

Kathleen Sturgeon
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JOHNS CREEK, GA — The 2020 class of Student Leadership Johns Creek held a very different graduation ceremony this year as opposed to the previous graduations in the program’s history. Because of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order, a virtual graduation was in order. Many of the Student Leadership Johns Creek students and prominent civic leaders including Fulton County School Board member Linda McCain, Sen. John Albers, and Superior Court Judge Rachelle Carnesale took time to record videos for the graduation ceremony.

This is a two-year program that involves student leaders from all four Johns Creek High Schools. Participants in the first-year program learn valuable leadership skills by adopting a community service project and documenting the difference their participation made. In addition, the students attend various program dates and learn about their state and city government. Students in the second-year work more independently, they complete two multi-media projects; one a personal portfolio exploring resume building, which serves them well as they begin the college application process. In addition, the students work with business professionals on mock interviewing skills and proper ways to manage their digital footprint. The second project is to shadow a business professional in a field they are considering pursuing. The business leaders in Johns Creek have been extremely receptive to the students being their shadow for a day and have included Marilyn Margolis, CEO at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Mayor Mike Bodker, Superior Court Judge Rachelle Carnesale, medical professionals from the area including Dr. James Dugal at Stat Medical Care, and marketing experts in many of the area’s top business firms including the Coca-Cola corporation.

Student Leadership Johns Creek presented completion certificates and graduation cords to the class of 2020, via the United States Postal Service, as each have successfully finished their two-year program.

The class of 2020 included the following students:

  • CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL: Marissa Fish, Alex Green, Jayla Melvin, Aman Puri, Meredith Brown, Carter Smith, Bodhana Veeramachaneni, Maggie Wall, Wilson Williams and Jake Winokur

  • CHATTAHOOCHEE HIGH SCHOOL: Dhruv Anand, Caelyn DeSouza, Josef Flagler, Eliza Imhoff, Linda Jawahar, Will Johnson, Siri Kanakala, Mallika Kenkare, Natasha Mohanty, Lindsay Morris, Meghana Pothukuchi and Anastasiya Viryaskina

  • JOHNS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: Samantha Breslow, Liam Friedel, David Hsi, Gargee Jamadagni, Kian Kermani, Aamir Khan, Ethan Mingoia, Sajan Parikh, Veeraj Rangnekar, Olivia Sanford, and Nikhil Uppal

  • NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL: Sally Alemayehu, Kiran Balakrishnan, Kulp Dhru, Pallavi Eranezhath, Sarah Her, Mehak Jain, Nikhita Joshi, Sumanth Kadiyala, Ishan Karanwal, Julia Ouyang, Keya Parikh, Ann Philip, Yasmin Shalim and Cherie Sang

Student Leadership Johns Creek announces class of 2022

After a competitive selection process, Student Leadership Johns Creek announced the class of 2022 representing student-leaders from all four Johns Creek High Schools.

The students chosen to participate in this two-year leadership program are:

  • CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL: Meaghan Dearing, Carmella Dunn, Harrison Frank, Summer Hinkle, Harper Hughes, Lauren Larsen, Dawson Moragne, Mehar Nemani, Mary Owen, Alex Swann, Harrison Williams, and Addy Wilson

  • CHATTAHOOCHEE HIGH SCHOOL: Raksha Adama, Nishanth Chandran, Gabby Clerveau, Vania Dominick, Amrit Garlapati, Mallika Kulkarni, Kadyn Lee, Ansley Lee, Shruti Nemala, Anshika Nichani, Soham Satghare, Friana Siganporia, Anastacia Stoyanov, and Natalie Wong

  • JOHNS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: Ty Davalbhakta, Carson Forkey, Carson Kennedy, Charlotte Lichtenfeld, Ethan Loy, Carlos Luz, Omer Mujawar, Chloe Nicholas, Aanya Parekh, Mihir Paul, Eshaan Salvi, Aashwin Sharma, Ananya Shetty, and Kavin Uppal

  • NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL: Aryan Afre, Abinav Chari, Anjali Dhupam, Nikita Jha, Shresta Jha, Akshay Para, Tara Ramesh, Tanvi Rao, Amulya Rekapalli, Aesha Shah, Vidhi Tiwary, Aakansh Yerpude and Sophia Ying

These student-leaders will represent their respective high schools, the city of Johns Creek and the Student Leadership program in the coming two years.

More information about Student Leadership Johns Creek can be found online.

This article originally appeared on the Johns Creek Patch