Avellanedo Castro Earns Regional Young Georgia Author Honors
East Jackson Middle School's Avril Avellaneda Castro has been named the Northeast Georgia RESA's Young Georgia Author winner. Avellaneda Castro's short story, The Change, will go on to compete at the state level and marks the second consecutive year a student from East Jackson Middle School earned the honor of holding the RESA district's lone Young Georgia Author winner. Riley Saunders, then in sixth grade, earned the honor for the 2022-23 school year.