| Nashville Schools John Overton High School | | | | has been an active participant in FCCLA for |
| Students Honored | | | | several decades. Family, Career and Community |
| Students from the John Overton High School | | | | Leaders of America has around 225,000 active |
| participated in Students Taking Action with | | | | members and was established in 1945. |
| Recognition Events at. The Nashville Schools' team | | | | Nashville Schools Maplewood High School Students |
| included Overton High School graduates Rosa | | | | Win National Essay Contest |
| Abernathy, Jontyce Otey, and Brittany Shook. | | | | Two students from Nashville Schools Maplewood |
| The Nashville Schools team won a gold medal in | | | | High School have won the Lewis & Clark |
| Focus on Children, one of the sixteen Students | | | | Expedition National Essay contest. The |
| Taking Action with Recognition events that Family, | | | | contestants had to write essays about some |
| Career and Community Leaders of America's | | | | aspect of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, for |
| 2006 National Leadership Meeting participants can | | | | example the affect it had on the nation or the |
| compete. The Nashville Schools team's medal was | | | | trials the expedition faced. The essays were |
| given to them at special meeting that honored all | | | | judged on accuracy, clarity, organization, |
| the participants. The meeting was held at the | | | | documentation, and creativity. Maplewood High |
| Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention | | | | School students Kayla McNabb and Michael |
| Center; more than five thousand guests were in | | | | Muncey have won trip to follow a portion of the |
| attendance. | | | | Lewis and Clark Trail in North Dakota as their |
| The Focus on Children event tests the | | | | prize for writing excellent essays. The winners |
| participants' ability to use family and consumer | | | | from Nashville Schools will travel with other |
| science skills to create a child development | | | | essays winners from around the US to Fort |
| project that has a positive impact on children and | | | | Abraham Lincoln, Fort Mandan, several Indian |
| the community. Students Taking Action with | | | | Villages, the Lewis & Clark Interpretive |
| Recognition program is aimed at using cooperative | | | | Center and Cross Ranch State Park where they |
| skills to compete. Students and adult members | | | | will engage in a variety of learning experiences. |
| manage and evaluate the events. Family, Career | | | | During the trip students will participate in Native |
| and Community Leaders of America is an | | | | American gardening, tool making and clothing |
| organization that aims to help young adults | | | | production. They will also see reenactments of US |
| develop the ability to deal with personal, family, | | | | Cavalry tactics of the late 1800's and join in the |
| work and societal issues through Family and | | | | Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Celebration. |
| Consumer Sciences Education. Nashville Schools | | | | |