Canton, Clark Creek Elementary Schools Named STEM Education Award Finalists

CANTON, GA -- Two Cherokee County School District schools have been named finalists for the Technology Association of Georgia and TAG Education Collaborative’s 2016 STEM Education Awards.

Canton Elementary School STEM Academy is a finalist for the Elementary School Award while Clark Creek Elementary School STEM Academy is a finalist for the STEM Certified School Outreach Award.

This is the second consecutive year for the schools to be named to the list of finalists, the Cherokee County School District said Tuesday.

The awards were created, according to the Association, to recognize “outstanding efforts and achievement in supporting and promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education in Georgia.”

Winners will be announced on Nov. 4 during the STEM Education Awards ceremony at the Loudermilk Center in Atlanta.

“We applaud each of this year’s finalists for their extraordinary efforts to bolster awareness about the importance of STEM and for their hard work to increase student participation in science, technology, engineering and math programs,” said Michael Robertson, director of the Collaborative. “Georgia will need to fill some 211,000 STEM-related jobs by 2018, so we are pleased to showcase so many great schools, programs and organizations that are helping to develop a strong future workforce for our state. ”

TAG is the leading technology industry association in the state, serving more than 30,000 members; TAG Education Collaborative is dedicated to developing science, technology, engineering and math initiatives in Georgia.

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