FCA Senior Trip 2012
We made it! Shades of Summer @ Grayton Beach. 100% of FCA Seniors are on this trip. Going to be way to much fun!
FCA Night Golf Tournament-To Much Fun!
Congrats to the Adams team for their 1st place win last night with a 8 under par. The longest drive went to FCA alum Daniel Davis. There was a tie for 2nd between the Vander Elst & Wittman teams with 5 under each. Great fun was had by all and no one suffered from the lightning storm or rain delay. Thanks to all golfers for helping with our FCA need based financial aid. Good job!
Mack-Hatcher Northwest Extension – Are we getting there?
Apparently we are! Here’s some evidence. The City of Franklin has purchased 29 acres from Livingfield More according to The Tennessean and local beat writer Kevin Walters. FCA made our contribution to the condemnation phase about a year ago when we sold a small portion of our land to the City of Franklin for the Mack-Hatcher right of way.
Here’s the article from the Tennessean: http://tinyurl.com/d5shh24.
Our new campus will face Mack-Hatcher and be very near the 96W & Mack-Hatcher high-speed round-about. See the map.
What’s Bill & Melinda Gates up to in Chatty?
Putting their money where their mouth is for sure. The Gates Foundation and their Millennium Scholarships have funded 5 Chattanooga area students complete college education! In the past 10 years the Gates have given more than $614 million to this program.
View the FreeTimes article and learn more. http://tinyurl.com/78f2hcp
To qualify for the Gates Millennium Scholarship, students must:
• Be an African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American students who are U.S. citizens, or legal permanent residents.
• Have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 on an unweighted 4.0 scale or have earned a GED
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities
• Meet federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria
We made it! Backpacking To Cosby Knob & Davenport Gap Up on The AT.
The FCA men: KC Jorgenson, Michael Brooks, Andy Webb, Sam Deloach, Adrian Young, Paden Ritchie, Ghislain Vander Elst, Dave Deloach, Chad Webb, Jimmy Webb (75 yr old Dad & Granddad), & Hugh Harris made the trek up to the Appalachian Trail and the two shelters over this past weekend.
We spent Friday night at at Fox Fire Campground in Hartford, TN just up the road from the trail head and enjoyed the storm that blew through the area but missed out on all of the real bad weather. Just some rain and high wind.
We started our hike at Big Creek Camp Ground in the GSNP and headed up Big Creek trail to the Lower Gap trail that took us up to the AT and the Cosby Knob shelter . Quite the climb. Warm sunny day and lots of sweating.
Great fire in the shelter by the FCA guys and we spent th evening with some AT “through hikers” on their way to Maine and the “ridge runner” Bill who overseas the AT. The next morning we awoke to a light dusting of snow and drop in temperature. We packed up and headed East on the AT toward Mt. Cammerer Fire Tower. It was snowing steadily the entire section of the AT and the wind was very strong. Temps continued to drop to the point that everyone’s Camel Back water systems were frozen solid along with ice in our Nalgene bottles.
When we arrived at the fire tower the clouds broke just enough to see the mountains to the East and I40. 
We made it to Davenport Gap shelter by 1:00 pm to find a much less used, dusty, dark hovel but much appreciated none the less for its fireplace and roof. We were joined that night by 2 different groups so we had a total of 16 in the shelter. The FCA guys did an outstanding job of chopping firewood and building a roaring fire that lasted throughout the night. Great job guys!
The next morning we packed up and headed down the mountain spurred on by the thoughts and smells of fresh rolls and steaks at the nearest Texas Roadhouse for lunch as is our custom. I must say this group of 2 seniors and 4 freshmen represented FCA well. Us older guys did all we could to keep up with them. Well done gentlemen, well done! Can’t wait til next year.
FCA Backpacking Trip – Smokies Here We Come!
It’s that time of year again and the FCA guys are headed to the mountains. This time we are going to the far East side of Great Smokey National Park and hiking a new trail. We will spend the night tonight at Fox Fire Campground near Hartford, TN off I-40 & then Sat. morning head up Big Creek Trail and connect with Low Gap Trail and on up to the Appalachian Trail and the Cosby Knob shelter for the 1st night stay. On Sunday we will hike the AT to the Mt. Cammerer Fire Tower and then on to the Davenport Gap shelter for Sunday night. Monday we hike back down via Chestnut Trail and back to the Big Creek Campground. About 19 miles total. 
The men going this time are:
Chad Webb
Andy Webb
Ghislain Vander Elst
David Deloach
Sam Deloach
Adrian Young
Michael Brooks
KC Jorgenson
Paden Ritchie
Hugh Harris
7th Grade Science
FCA STEM Science Fair Awards 8th Grade:
1st Place – Logan Starwalt
2nd Place – Lakota Dodging Horse Robinson
3rd Place – Noah Stewart
“In Today’s Economy, How Far Can A GED Take You?”
This is a great article by Claudio Sanchez from NPR about whether a GED is going to really provide the opportunities that it might have once given. Studies are showing that GED’s are not providing any more advancement than dropping out of high school.
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/18/147015513/in-todays-economy-how-far-can-a-ged-take-you?ft=1&f=1013
Hiking in the Smokies
We hiked out the Abrams Creek trail to the Abrams Falls & then beyond until the trail crossed the very rain swollen creek so we re-traced our hike back to the Cade’s Cove trail head. 8.4 miles total round trip. Very warm could of hiked in short & t-shirts. Suburban camped & stayed out of the rain that hit early this AM. Spending time in Townsend today. Snow & freezing rain on the way.
FCA Seniors Rock On Fun Day!
The FCA Seniors did a great job today planning and pulling off our annual Fun Day. Complete surprise for the student body. Great Dodge Ball tournament, outstanding grilling burgers & dogs, proud of the class of 2012. Sorry I couldn’t be there. H2.
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