The Baldwin County 2016 Student Teacher Achievement Recognition recipients will be honored on Thursday, February 25 at 12:00 pm at the Milledgeville Country Club. 

The 2016 local winners are:

-        Baldwin High School senior, Meghan Dietrich, and her STAR teacher, Ms. Susan McGill

-        GMC Prep School senior, Stephanie Gorham, and her STAR teacher, Mr. Clay McElheny

-        John Milledge Academy senior, Luke Atkinson, and his Star teacher, Mr. Bala Reddy 

The 2016 system winner will be announced at the award ceremony on Thursday. The system winner and their teacher will go on to compete for region honors on Tuesday, March 15 at Middle Georgia State College in Macon, GA.

Each STAR Student will be awarded a $500 scholarship with the System winner receiving a $1,000 scholarship. Each STAR teacher will be awarded $100.

The PAGE STAR program, now in its 58^th year, is sponsored, administered and promoted by the Professional Association of Georgia Educations Foundation. Since its inception, the STAR program has honored nearly 25,500 students and the teachers they have selected as having had the most influence on their academic achievement. To obtain the 2016 STAR nomination, high school seniors must have the highest score on a single test date on the three-part SAT and be in the top 10 percent or top 10 students of their class based on grade point average.

Locally, STAR students and STAR teachers are honored by their schools and receive special recognition in their communities from more than 165 civic organizations and businesses that serve as local sponsors of the STAR program.

This year marks the 30^th year that the Milledgeville-Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce has been the local sponsoring organization for the Baldwin County STAR program. Other local sponsors are Georgia College, Georgia Military College, Kiwanis Club of Milledgeville and Rotary Club of Milledgeville. 

For additional information, please contact Kara Lassiter at 478-453-9311 or email at [email protected].