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DELMAN NAMED TO 2018 “20 UNDER 20” Each year, the Reporter Newspapers and Atlanta INtown Paper publish a list of the city’s “20 Under 20,” recognizing young people “who have been active volunteers in their communities.” Senior SAMANTHA DELMAN represents Pace Academy on the 2018 list. Delman, an executive leader in Pace’s community engagement program, is working toward her Girl Scout Gold Award. Her project will provide education regarding testing for sexually transmitted diseases to teen girls in communities with limited health resources. Delman’s goal is to create a sustainable program that will provide “health equity” throughout Atlanta. She was inspired to launch the initiative as a result of her work tutoring and mentoring with Peoplestown Academy. In her role, Delman recruits students to participate in the program and tutors three afternoons per week throughout the school year. She also serves as a tutor and counselor for Keeping Pace, an academic summer program for underserved youth from Peoplestown and other neighborhoods. In addition, Delman makes volunteer work a priority when she travels. She participated in an Outward Bound/Girl Scout service trip to Costa Rica and Panama in the summer of 2015, and spent spring break of 2016 on an Isdell Center for Global Leadership (ICGL) study tour to Lesotho and South Africa. There, Pace students partnered with the third half, an adventure soccer travel company, and Kick4Life, a soccer club dedicated to social change, to use soccer as a forum for HIV/AIDS education. Following the trip, Delman and several friends launched The Universal Language, a group that supports Pace’s relationship with the third half and Kick4Life by collecting and sending soccer equipment to the organizations. This past summer, Delman participated in a medical mission to Haiti in partnership with Emory University, where she provided non-medical support to surgical personnel. She is now taking part in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Student of the Year fundraising program and also raising funds for Pace’s second annual Covenant House Georgia Student Sleep Out. When she’s not serving others, Delman is a Pace admissions ambassador, a member of the Baking for Breast Cancer club, a copy editor for the Pace yearbook and a peer tutor.
THE KNIGHTLY NEWS WINS GSPA WEBSITE AWARD The staff of The Knightly News, the Upper School student newspaper, made its annual trek to the Georgia Scholastic Press Association Conference at the University of Georgia this past fall. More than 600 students from around the state participated in the conference, where The Knightly News won the award for best homepage for a news website. Check out the students’ awardwinning work at knightlife.paceacademy.org/knightlynews.
THE BRUTE BRINGS HOME REGION ONE-ACT TITLE The cast of the Upper School’s one-act play, Anton Chekhov’s The Brute, participated in the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) Class AAA region competition in October. The production earned the competition’s top prize, and senior PAIGE DEMBA was named to the GHSA All-Star Cast. The cast took its show on the road to compete at the state level in November. “While the production did not place at state, we succeeded as a department,” says Upper School Theatre Director SEAN BRYAN. “The future of Pace theatre is bright!”
KnightTimes | Winter 2018
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