CARROLLTON, GA — Nine Carrollton High School students placed in the Georgia Rotary Clubs Laws of Life Essay Contest, which is designed to encourage teenagers to articulate their values and ideals through storytelling to recognize and reward good character. Locally, the Carrollton Dawnbreakers Rotary Club sponsors the contest. Grade-level winners and honorable mentions were honored at a breakfast hosted by Rotary on April 29 at Sunset Hills Country Club. 

Honorable mentions are 9th grader Larissa Babino, 10th graders Genesis Martinez-Araujo and Savannah Ellerbee, and 11th graders Davis Haas and Payton Johsnon.

Demonstrating excellence in their writing were 11th-Grade/School Winner Aaliayah Tucker, 9th-Grade Winner Talia Jones-Dorsey, 10th-Grade Winner Emma Engelbird, and 12th-Grade Winner Kennedy Malagon.
 

Pictured, from left, front row are CHS students Davis Haas, Payton Johnson, Talia Jones-Dorsey, Kennedy Malagon, Larissa Babino, Genesis Martinez- Araujo, Savannah Ellerbee, Emma Englebird, Aaliayah Tucker; and back row, CHS Principal Dr. Ian Lyle, CHS teacher Rosie Grubbs, CHS teacher Jamie Biddle, CHS teacher Hunter Spurlock, CHS teacher Lyndsey Oliver, and CHS teacher Danielle Key.