The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2014 STAR Student/Teacher Achievement Recognition awards program at the February membership breakfast held at The Burson Center. The Chamber has co-hosted this program with the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) for more than 50 years. The awards program recognizes high school seniors with the highest SAT scores, and the teacher each student chose as having the most influence in their academic development.

During the STAR recognition ceremony, students from the Carroll County School System were recognized. The honorees, their teachers and parents, and school administrators heard from Carroll County School Superintendent Scott Cowart, Carrollton City Schools Superintendent Kent Edwards, and Oak Mountain Academy Head of School Paula Gillispie.

Local high school STAR honorees from the Carroll County School System include Bowdon High School
student Sam Jenkins and his teacher Cynthia Hurley; Central High School student Raleigh Conerly and
her teacher Stephanie Herring; Mt. Zion High School student Will Sizemore and his teacher Michael
Cleek; Temple High School student Myia Hambrick and her teacher Dianne Ledford; and Villa Rica
High School student Abbigayle Mathis and her teacher Ladell Griffin.

Bowdon High senior, Sam Jenkins, and teacher, Cynthia Hurley, were chosen to represent the Carroll
County School System at the Regional STAR Awards to be held at the Coosa Country Club on March 11.