The TCMS Girls' Conditioning students recently had a fun-filled day with Coach Deborah Anderson with girl empowerment activities in honor of Women's History Month during the month of March. As part of this observance, mothers, grandmothers, teachers, and strong women influences in these students' lives came out to support these students and attend a class where students prepared a special program. 

Girl empowerment activities included:

*Partner Squats with Purple Balloons

*Leg Lifts with Purple Balloons

*Purple Balloon Pop Competition

Each activity had learning concepts about competition and teamwork to apply in real-life situations. Girls' Conditioning students had to work hard throughout the activities to keep their purple balloons inflated. The purple balloon symbolizes 'purpose.'

Students learned that one must be determined, focused, and strategic in protecting your purpose in life. They also learned to "bee your best" on purpose in class to protect their future; "bee positive" and don't deflate their purpose with negative thinking or actions; and to "bee bright, brave, & beautiful for life!"

Students in Mrs. Floyd's eighth-grade MERIT Georgia Studies class recently had the opportunity to see and hold an original 1996 Olympics torch. The torch belongs to Instructional Coach Debbie Lasseter's husband, Steve Lasseter.

Steve Lasseter was nominated and chosen as a community hero, and became one of the torchbearers as it passed through Thomasville on its way to Atlanta in the Summer of 1996. Lasseter was offered the opportunity to purchase the torch he carried. The torch relay through the United States was sponsored by one of the Olympics' largest sponsors, Georgia-based Coca-Cola. The students were wrapping up their unit on modern Georgia, which includes a standard on the impacts of the 1996 Olympics on the state.

Congratulations to the following students who are moving on to the State Social Studies Fair Competition to be held at North Cobb High School on April 22, 2023. These students were included in three of the sixteen projects that received Best in Show for 5th-12th grades in the regional competition held this past Saturday, allowing them to move on to compete in the state competition.

Kyndall Hughes for her project "How did technicolor change film and animation?"

Ben Bailey for his project "How did Louis Armstrong become a famous musician?"

Brennan West & Kassie White for their project "How did the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion impact the wildlife population?"

On March 17-18, 2023, the TCMS seventh and eighth-grade concert bands participated in the Tampa Bay Classic Music Festival. On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, the students attended the Broadway musical, “Wicked” at the Straz Center for Performing Arts in downtown Tampa. Saturday morning, March 18, the bands performed in the Tampa Bay Classic Music Festival at the University of South Florida. Both bands earned straight superior ratings for stage performance. Afterward, the students enjoyed the afternoon at Busch Gardens Theme Park.

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On March 8 and 9, 2023, the GMEA Large Group Performance Evaluation was held at Cairo High School. The TCMS Eighth-Grade Concert Band, under the direction of William Majors, earned Superior ratings on both their stage performance and in sight-reading.

The TCMS Seventh-Grade Concert Band, under the direction of Ryan Booth, earned Excellent ratings on their stage performance and a Superior rating in sight-reading.

Congratulations to both of our concert bands! We wish them the best as they perform at the Tampa Bay Classic Music Festival in Tampa on Saturday, March 18, at the University of South Florida.

On March 2-4, 2023, Thomas County Middle School Tubist, Carter Weiss, participated in the GMEA All-State Band Clinic at the Classic Center in Athens.  Weiss was one of only 14 tuba players in the state to make one of the two Middle School All-State Bands. 

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