Thank You PAGE

Thank You PAGE Members for Giving Us Terrific Reasons to Celebrate Education

In supporting the PAGE Foundation, PAGE members help fund programs that challenge, celebrate and reward outstanding teachers and high-achieving students. From academic competitions, such as the PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades and PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon (GAD), to PAGE STAR, the state’s premier academic recognition program, the PAGE Foundation ensures that these programs not only survive, but also thrive. Even in this era of reduced public education funding, your PAGE Foundation is determined that education in Georgia will continue to be something to celebrate and that hard-working students and exceptional teachers will have the opportunity to achieve bigger dreams.

The PAGE Foundation is also proud to provide financial scholarships to aspiring, as well as veteran educators. And through PAGE TV, you can learn more about state legislative actions regarding education, best practices in education and Foundation academic programs. Our goals for 2015 include: • Expanding the PAGE Georgia

Academic Decathlon program to more students; • Providing additional funding to better support PAGE Academic Bowl teams; • Providing scholarship funding to more Georgia educators; and • Perpetuating STAR, Georgia’s flagship student and teacher recognition program. n

Each year, the PAGE Foundation helps nearly 3,000 Georgia students and teachers fulfill their academic dreams. Below are highlights of just a few of the students or teachers who have benefitted from your generous support of PAGE Foundation programs. Steven Harris

Destin Sisemore and Steven Harris, teammates on the 2010 Lakeview-Fort

Michael Lomax, the 2010 State STAR Student and a 2014 graduate of Yale University.

“As a lifelong public school student from a poor region of the Deep South, being named State PAGE STAR Student in 2010 was a validation of the hard work put in by myself and my many teachers, especially Ms. Carole Wiles, my middle school English teacher and STAR Teacher selection. What I appreciate the most is being given the chance by the STAR program to showcase that the brightest minds in Georgia don’t have to come from Atlanta.”

Rodney Bullard, vice president of community affairs and executive director for the Chick-fil-A Foundation, credits the PAGE Foundation’s Academic Bowl for Middle Grades for helping him learn a valuable life lesson.

“Academic Bowl was a great learning experience. I learned that preparation and the amount of work you put into something really does result in the success of that effort.” — Rodney Bullard

Paula Flatman, a middle school Spanish teacher, was working on her master’s degree when she earned a PAGE Foundation Scholarship that helped her study in Spain for two summers.

“This PAGE Foundation Scholarship has given me the opportunity to share with my students the greater knowledge of the Spanish language, providing the students with a more well-rounded language experience.” — Paula Flatman

— Michael Lomax

Oglethorpe High School State Champion GAD team, credit their participation in GAD for expanding their dreams in higher education.

“If there had been no decathlon team, I would probably not be at Princeton. Academic Decathlon was the best thing I have ever done. It has a very persuasive influence.” — Steven Harris