Cable and Liu honored as STAR students
Both advance to further competition next month.
Jerry Cable from Armuchee High and Peter Liu of Darlington were honored Friday as the local STAR students for Floyd County and the city of Rome. The teenagers were recognized with other high school STARs at the Rome Exchange Club luncheon Friday. STAR is an acronym for Student Teacher Achievement Recognition.
The STAR program honors seniors with the top combination of SAT scores and grade point average. Cable and Liu now move on to district honors which will be held March 13.
Cable was unable to attend the luncheon Friday as he was on a prospective college trip to Illinois.
“He hopes to gain admittance to one of the military academies,” said his STAR teacher, Donald Bettler. “He has an amazing work ethic.” After the meeting it was pointed out that Cable has been an active member of the Young Marines organization in Rome.
Liu told the Exchange Club that he was not sure where he wants to attend college, but planned to major in a field related to theoretical computer sciences. Liu is a native of China and was described by his STAR teacher, Jennifer Sikes, as an incredible reader and writer. “He is a man of infinitely great ideas,” Sikes said.
The club honored each of the individual high school STARs including Floyd County Schools students Kasana Grace Page from Coosa High and her STAR teacher Chris Parker, Daniela Katriele Creel from Model and her STAR teacher Ellen Dunn, Kenzie Nicole Green from Pepperell and her STAR teacher Allison Goggans.
Also honored are Jaaie Varshney from Rome High and her STAR teacher Jason Ollis, along with Hannah Jo Jackson from Unity Christian and her STAR teacher Brad Poston.
Page said she planned to attend the University of Georgia, Creel said she planned to take a year off and do some traveling before continuing her education. She mentioned the WinShape Impact 360 Institute as a possible choice for furthering her schooling.
Varshney was off at a scholarship interview at the University of Georgia and unable to attend the luncheon. Green has been accepted at the Savannah College of Art and Design where she plans to study industrial design, while Jackson said she planned to go to the Georgia Institute of Technology and study something yet to be decided in the field of engineering.