Academics

Randolph Middle student heads to Washington for National Geographic Bee.

CMS students fare well in Health Occupation Student Association events.

Greyson McCluskey invented what’s now ‘Tempro’: a safety device for babies in hot cars.

Five Charlotte-area students are among the first group of National Merit Scholarship winners announced this year.

She wins for second straight year.

Fifth grade readers come out on top.

Charlotte teen is first from Butler to win since 1994.

Three Charlotte-area students in top 20 of 123 contestants.

‘Deep Thinkers’ win division of Army’s eCybermission contest.

Providence Day School sophomore Emily Ashkin was selected as a national finalist to represent North Carolina at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Dayton, Ohio, May 1-5.

Charlotte high school team goes 8-0 in winning tournament.

Two Charlotte-Mecklenburg teams will face off in National Academic League championship.

The Carmel Middle School team – from left, sixth-graders Rachel Gardner, Ethan Foster, Beckett Stillman, Lucy Koeniger, Katie Freije, Will Horne and Luke Foster –finished first in their event at the N.C. Odyssey of the Mind tournament April 6. They also won the Ranatra Fusca Creativity Award, presented to those who exhibit exceptional creativity through some aspect of their problem solution, behavior, or an extraordinary idea beyond the problem solution.

Charlotte-area teams had nine first-place finishers and eight seconds in the state finals of the Odyssey of the Mind competition at East Carolina University on April 6. They advance to the World Finals, May 22-25 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.

Charlotte-area students are among those at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Fourteen Charlotte-area high school students were named Wednesday as winners of National Achievement Scholarships, an award given annually to top African American 12th-graders across the country.

Gaston students win N.C. Teen Court Summit competition for second straight year.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students chosen for summer program.

The Ardrey Kell debate team finished first overall at the Tarheel Forensic League State Debate and Speech Championships, held March 22-23, with more than 30 schools competing. Myers Park won the debate sweepstakes, while Ardrey Kell won the speech sweepstakes; Myers Park finished third and North Mecklenburg fourth overall.

DECA winners in Greensboro advance to international conference.

A team of students from the School of Biotechnology, Health and Public Administration at Olympic High finished second among more than 70 teams nationwide at PwC’s High School Business Challenge.

From her opening sentence, Reagan Walker’s winning entry in the 4th Brigade JROTC Essay Contest sets the scene for an experience that she says changed her life.

Jay M. Robinson was the middle schools champion at the third annual The Quill on-demand writing competition, March 2 at Lexington Senior High.

Winners from the 2013 Regional N.C. Science & Engineering Fair held Feb. 23 at UNCC advance to the state event March 15-16 at Meredith College.

Fourth-graders Adriana Griffin, Elijah Smith and Jamar Williams of Thomasboro Academy won the Greater Enrichment Program of Charlotte’s annual Quiz Bowl, held Saturday at the Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center in Charlotte.

Ten seventh-grade girls at Charlotte Latin School are doing all kinds of things with Raspberry Pi – and it’s not in a home economics class.

Jay M. Robinson was the middle school West Region champion for The Quill during early February.

Hopewell High School's Army team won this year's CMS JROTC District Academic Bowl. Ardrey Kell (Marine) finished second, followed by Butler (Army), Mallard Creek (Army) and Providence (Navy).

Myers Park High, Providence Day School and Gaston Day School won a Superior rating from the National Council of Teachers of English for their literary magazines. This is the second-highest award bestowed by the NCTE.

Ridge Road can rest its case. The middle school’s Mock Trial team is officially tops in the state.