"Year of the Rabbit" National New Year's Card Contest
Original Category 1st Place Winner, Tiffany Hsu (8th grade)
7th grade Beginning
7th grade Continuous
8th grade 2nd year
8th grade 3rd year
<Other Events and News>
May: 8th grade Party at Nagoya Japanese Restaurant
8th graders celebrated the end of middle school Japanese
program at Nagoya Japanese restaurant.
View more party photo!
April: Cranes for Kids in Japan
Japanese students, Origami Club students, and many other EPMS students helped making Origami cranes to support "Cranes for Kids" project from OshKosh. We made 4,584 cranes total!!! The cranes were delivered to OshKosh by Origami Club students right before deadline. This project was featured in the following news and magazine:
Fulton County Website (May/June, 2011)
AroundAbout North Fulton June, 2011 issue, page 17
Thank you for everyone's support!!!
March: Fulton Forum, Spoken Language Contest
Seven 8th grade and four 7th grade Japanese students were selected to participate in Fulton Forum in March. Students were interviewed by a Japanese judge, and received the following ratings. Congratulations to everyone who participated!
8th grade category: Superior (highest rating): Alex Hagler, Hannah Rozei, Steffanny Marcellina, and Andrew Widjaja
Excellent (second-highest): Josh Bowling, Tiffany Hsu, and Rebecca Seippel
7th grade category: Superior: Emma Burge, Mitchell Braatz, Emma Flynn, and Scott Jenkins
All Fulton Forum participants (with French students)
March: International Night
International Night was very fun and success again this year!!! Thank you to all the student and parent volunteers, and everyone who donated items for Asian table!!!
March: A Guest Speaker from Japan visits 7th and 8th period Classes
A former exchange student from Japan, Fuyuki, and his former host brother, Will, visited 7th and 8th period classes to share Japanese culture.
Fuyuki showing Japanese cell phone to class.
February: New Year's Cards Contest Result
National Contest Winners: 1st place in Original Category: Tiffany Hsu (Right) and Honorable Mention Award: Evelyn Jackson (Left).
State Contest Winners: From right: Emma Burge (3rd place), Alston Chen (Artistic Award), Najira Ringers (GATJ Award), and Tiffany Hsu (GATJ Award)
February's Skype Conferences
1. With Atashika Junior High School in Mie, Japan (2/9/11)
Japanese
students singing "Arashi" song and dancing
2. Skype conference on 2/23/11 (7th graders only)
February: 8th grade field trip to Riverwood High School Japanese Festival and Japanese Restaurant
