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Campus Review
February 26, 2013
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Women’s Forum
Spring Scholarship Luncheon
April 16
12 noon – 1:30 pm
Harry S. Downs Center, Room 101
Guest Speaker: Ashley Vicos
AClayton State alum, Ashley has been pro-
fessionally decorating cakes for twelve
years and owns Sweet Ashley’s, a private
baking studio. Her in-demand cakes have
become so popular, she also travels around
the country baking for high-profile events
and top-tier clients. She has been featured
on Food Network, TLC, CBS, and NBC, as
well as in American Cake Decorating
Magazine and Modern Baking Magazine.
Clayton State was able to pull the event
off as a true group effort with a lot of help
from the Clayton State Honors Program,
The Loch Shop – which donated a pletho-
ra of supplies -- and Clayton State’s din-
ing service, Sodexo, which provided food
for 600 guests. The honors student volun-
teers, along with the co-event host and
creator, Clayton State Assistant Professor
of Mathematics Dr. Scott Bailey, were
essential to the success of the event.
“Luckily we were able to work diligently
to get things done,” says CIMS Assistant
Dean Jarrett Terry, “We definitely have
Dr. Bailey to thank for gathering the sup-
port needed to make this event a success.”
The competitors and their families were
ultimately pleased with the super region-
als, and hope that it will be held at
Clayton State next year. They especially
appreciated the venue of the James M.
Baker University Center, with its open
floor, and overarching hallways where
they could have an aerial view of the
robot competitions happening on Main
Street.
Planning for next year’s Lego League
super regionals will begin in April of this
year. Terry hopes that early planning will
help the event obtain more sponsorship,
attract more merchants, and better train
and prepare volunteers. He is confident
that Clayton State can make the super
regionals a success again, and is proud of
this year’s team.
“It’s miraculous how faculty and students
came together just a few days before the
competition and were committed to mak-
ing it an enjoyable event for the kids and
their families,” he states.
One team getting more than their share of
enjoyment out of the super regionals were
the North Clayton Middle School
RoboTigers, who won the first place
champion award in the competition. The
RoboTiger team included; Dagm Behailu,
Bailey Jordan, Jason Purce, Kendall
Jordan, Ali Sesay, Terrance Dorsey,
Victoria Haggwood and Camille Taylor.
Nezetta Johnson, Mark Smith and Stacy
Nelson coached the team and Zenobia
Johnson and Sandra Caughman were the
parent mentors.
The FLL regionals weren’t the only event
for secondary school children hosted by
Clayton State this winter. The Clayton
State Library also welcomed more than
500 people for the Fifth Annual Metro
Atlanta Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl
Competition on Saturday, Feb. 2. On Feb.
23, CIMS hosted the MathCounts state
regional competition and, on the same
day, Clayton State partnered with YELL
(Youth Engaged in Learning and Leading)
Academy to provide elementary, middle,
and high school scholars with the oppor-
tunity to explore fun, hands-on science
and math labs.
Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Clarke Franklin,
one of the Clayton State University School of
Nursing’s 2012/2013 Faculty Scholars, spoke at
the University on Thursday, Feb. 14 and Friday,
Feb. 15. Franklin’s presentation was on,
“Lessons in Leadership: The Power of One” and
concentrated on men and women whose con-
viction and determination made a difference in
our America.
Ashley Vicos
LEGO, cont’d. from p. 3