CCSD Students Selected For Model ARC Program

CANTON, GA — Seven high school students in the Cherokee County School District have been chosen to participate in a prestigious program that exposes them to the metro Atlanta region.

These students are participants in the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Model Atlanta Regional Commission, a six-month program that educates students on regional issues and challenges and gives them the opportunity to develop ideas for improving metro Atlanta.

They are: Cherokee High School junior Franki Sicilia; River Ridge High School junior Sathvika Narasimhan; Sequoyah High School sophomores Bradley Gordon, Jordyn Hardaway and TJ Murphy; and Woodstock High School juniors Zakwan Khan and Camilo Rincon.

According to its website, students learn more about the region through field trips and visits to areas within the 10-county ARC. Students taking part in MARC "practice effective leadership, communication and collaboration skills through the development of actionable ideas and efforts to promote positive change in our region," the website goes on to state.

Issues these students learn more about are public art, community planning, transportation and transit and natural resource sustainability, just to name a few. Counties in the ARC are: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties and the city of Atlanta.

You can learn more about MARC by clicking here.

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