Hooper Students Design
and Build Rollercoaster
Lady Knights Win a 5th State Title
The Macon East Academy varsity volleyball team did it again this season
winning their 5th consecutive AISA AA State Championship defeating
Kingwood Christian in the final game (25-19, 25-21, 25-20) at Faulkner
University. The Lady Knights were undefeated all season with a record of 29-0
and 76 straight match victories. In the semi-final game against Coosa Valley,
Macon East came back from a two set loss to advance to the final match. The
loss to Coosa Valley ended a 199 consecutive game winning streak by the Lady
Knights, but they did what they had to do to battle back and get the match win.
Lexi Brantley and Payton Traff were named to the all-tournament team, and Jesi
Garrett with 33 kills and 28 digs was named tournament MVP. Jesi also reached
a 1,000 kill career milestone in the first game of the state tournament. Brantley
who had achieved 500 career aces and 2,000 career kills earlier in the season
finished the tournament with 7 aces, 31 kills, 5 digs, and 29 assists, along with
Traff ’s 50 assists, 12 kills, 5 aces, and 4 digs and Sami Nesbitt’s 15 kills, 10 aces,
14 digs, and 5 blocks. The Lady Knights will lose 5 seniors who lead this team
on and off the court, but they will come back strong and ready for the challenge
in 2016.
Robotics students Aaron White, Dale Burkhalter
and Hunter LeJeune pose with the roller coaster
they built. Coach Drew Castillow’s robotics class
was discovering how acceleration of objects is
affected by gravity. They used roller coasters to
discover downhill acceleration, momentum, and
conservation of energy. The students were able
to draw and build their own roller coaster design
using K’nex pieces.
ABOVE: (Front Row) Seniors: Jesi Garrett, Lexi Brantley, Payton Traff, Sarah Margaret Poundstone, and Meagan
Manley (Back Row) Gracie Johnston, Sami Nesbitt, Sydney Weverink, Kaylee Pullin, Madisyn Kennedy, Bailey Williams,
and Cadey Brown
Hooper Students Getting
Creative with Cells
Seventh Graders in Mrs. Slay’s Life Science class
recently completed 3D diagrams of either a plant
or animal cell. The students used various X]\