Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas is FLL Athens State Champion!

Fulton Sunshine Academy Elementary School FLL Team, TechnoPandas was awarded the Championship Award at the FIRST Lego League (FLL) State Championship held in Athens, GA on February 1st, 2014. Techno Pandas is now qualified for FLL World Festival and will represent Georgia in St. Louis in April.

FLL is a robotics competition held annually all over the world and is rapidly gaining popularity in Georgia. Over 500 teams of students aged 9 to 14 years competed in the State of Georgia this year. The theme this year was Nature’s Fury. Each team identified a specific severe weather situation and a problem associated with it. The teams had to then came up with an innovative solution to the problem.

It is indeed a remarkable achievement for a team made up of 5th grade students to compete alongside 8th graders and emerge as champions.

Good luck in World Festival at St. Louis in April! 

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas Receives 2 awards, Best Score in FLL Super Regional and Qualifies for FLL State Competition

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Pandas Receives Robot Mechanical Design and Robot Performance awards (the only team with two awards).

Techno Pandas also made the Best Score in FLL Super Regional competition. Team Qualifies for the FLL State Competition which will be held in Athens on February 1st!

Congratulations and good luck in Athens!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Panda Robotics Team receives Programming Award and qualifies for Super Regional!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Techno Panda Robotics Team receives Programming Award and qualifies for Super Regional! Congratulations to Techno Pandas!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Disaster Blasters Receives 1st Place and qualifies to compete in Super Regional!

Fulton Sunshine Academy FLL Team Disaster Blasters Receives 1st Place in qualifier Robotics Competition and qualifies to compete in Super Regional! Good luck in Super Regionals!

Congratulations Fulton Sunshine Academy 4th Grade Student Siddharth!

Siddharth competed at the 2013 Georgia K-12 Grade Level Championship Chess Tournament last Saturday and placed 2nd in the 4th grade level competition. Congratulations Siddharth!

Congratulations to Fulton County 2014 Water Calendar Art Contest Winners!

 Fulton Sunshine Academy students won 3 out of 12 first prize winners ! Congratulations to our students!

Fulton Sunshine Academy observed Veterans Day on November 11

Fulton Sunshine Academy hosted Veteran Mr. Mitiu as guest speaker on Nevember 11th.

"A Rainbow All Around Me" by Fulton Sunshine Academy Kindergarten and First Grade Students

"A Rainbow All Around Me" by Fulton Sunshine Academy Kindergarten and First Grade Students

Letter from a Fulton Sunshine Academy Teacher to her students

Letter from a Fulton Sunshine Academy Teacher to students

Sanjeev Uppaluri, a fifth grader at Fulton Sunshine Academy placed third in the national finals of the National Geographic Bee

Sanjeev Uppaluri, a fifth grader at Fulton Sunshine Academy in Roswell, placed third in the national finals of the National Geographic Bee May 22 hosted by "Jeopardy!" personality Alex Trebek in Washington, D.C.

Sanjeev Uppaluri was the youngest student in the top 10 at 2013 nationals, and he received $10,000 as a scholarship from National Geographic Society.

• Local Student To Compete In National Geographic Bee
• Top 10 GeoBee Finalists
• Sanjeev Uppaluri, an 11-year-old fifth-grade student at Fulton Sunshine Academy in Roswell, GA, came in third in National Geo Bee Competition
• World Knowledge Earns Alpharetta 5th Grader 10K Scholarship
• Georgia’s Sanjeev Uppaluri Finishes Third at National Geographic Bee
• Boy takes third in National Geographic Bee
• Roswell fifth grader finishes third in national geography bee
• Sanjeev Uppaluri - National Geographic Bee 2013 - GA Finalist

     Photo by Rebecca Hale / National Geographic

Junior FLL Team of Fulton Sunshine Academy, Pouncing Pandas receives Master Programmer Award in International World Festival Expo Robotics Competition!

Fulton Sunshine Academy Junior FLL Robotics Team, Pouncing Pandas received Master Programmer Award in the International Robotics Competition called World Festival Expo. Fulton Sunshine Academy students, Mohana Malapti, Aliya Heinisch, Varun Vijay, Nishanth Chandran were 4 of the 10,000+ students from around the globe travelled to St. Louis, MO to compete in well respected world-wide Robotics competitions.

Fulton Sunshine Academy K-5 Chess Team is Georgia State Chess Champion!

Fulton Sunshine Academy student, Sanjeev Uppaluri is Geography Bee Georgia State Champion!

Sanjeev Uppaluri placed first at the 2013 Georgia State Geographic Bee competition held on Friday, April 5, 2013 at  Georgia College (GCSU) in Milledgeville,GA after a four-hour contest that included 90 state finalists from across the state. He will represent Georgia State at the National Geography Bee on May 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

Fulton Sunshine Academy Destination Imagination Team receives 1st Place in State Tournament and Team Advances to Global Finals in May!

Congratulations to the Fulton Sunshine Academy Destination Imagination - Panda Power team, who won 1st place for the In the Zone Team Challenge on Saturday, March 23rd at the State Tournament held at Duluth High School! The team advances to the Global Finals in Knoxville, TN at the University of Tennessee on May 22 – 25. The team is comprised of 2 - 5th graders, Akash Bhatt and Prajwal Vedula and 3 - 3rd graders, Viveca Harjani, Kavitha Kuppuswamy and Njeri Lewis, and is coached by Mrs. Lauren Lewis. The team's challenge was to solve a technical challenge where they built vehicles using up to seven different propulsion systems. They were asked to create an original story about the dangers faced by vehicles, told from the point of view of one or more of the vehicles. As they performed, they launched ten (10) vehicles from a Start Zone using 5 different propulsion systems: Electric, Magnetic, Wind-up, Gravity and Pneumatic. In addition, the team placed 3rd place in the Instant Challenge (Spontaneous) problem solving in their category at the Tournament.

The team also won the award for the most creative cake.

Congratulations to the students, parents and coach! We wish them all the best at Global Finals.

Fulton Sunshine Academy Jr. FLL Robotics Team Pouncing Pandas, invited to FIRST World Festival Expo 2013 in St. Louis

Manga African Dance group performs at Fulton Sunshine Academy in observance of...

Dr Seuss Week comes to Fulton Sunshine Academy

Dr Seuss Week comes to Fulton Sunshine Academy

Fulton Sunshine Academy Student's Artwork made out of Bottle Caps

Fulton Sunshine Academy Science Expo 2013