By Melanie Coon and Runi Perkins, Co-Chairs, East Cobb County Council of PTAs
Honoring Our Heroes is a voluntary student writing contest sponsored by the East Cobb County Council of PTAs. Students of all ages are asked to write about their everyday hero, a real-life role model that has made an impact on their lives. It might even be a famous person if they have met the criteria. The 104 winners wrote about their mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers, and even J.K.Rowling and Stan Lee. Congratulations to the 2019-2020 Honoring Our Heroes essay winners!
Addison Elementary:
Leen Abdulbaki
Ronan An
Maximillian Bracy
Alison Clark
Xander Diaz Alvarez
Payton Dimiceli
Dustin Disharoo
Rosie Gainey
Dilan Hajariwala
Liliana Hammond
Abigail Hardin
Harper Hassen
Landon Holmes
Khloe Justice
Frankie Kazemian
Ryley Kelly
Elle Kerns
Jamel Nalls
Anthony Nguye
David Perez
Marcoluis Petrillo
Jed Puzyrewicz
Maricela Renteria
Olivia Silva
Tristan Talmadge
Dylan Thigpen
Ryley Weaver
Brumby Elementary:
Noah Bailey
Noah Fleming
Ava Rison
Davis Elementary:
Dikshita Mohan
Maneshwar Sathyanarayanan
Amanda Spens
Nathan Stoll
Jude Swanner
East Side Elementary:
Emma Crosby
Hannah Liu
Siddhant Mahapatra
Smera Mahapatra
Gabi Nienabar
Turner Sahadevan
East Valley Elementary:
Leah Ananyer
Sukrut Choudapurkar
Vishnu Karthikeyam
Ramya
Vishwa Praveen
Alaina Sengupta
Jayesh Vijay
Garrison Mill Elementary:
Arthur DeSales
Collins Dougherty
Max Lamb
Shivani Pickett
William Reither
Keheley Elementary:
Antoine Reed
Esther Vann
Noah Vann
Kincaid Elementary:
Leah Armer
Rohan Raj
Ryan Rashidi
Grant Spiva
Mountain View Elementary:
Zachary Geneva
Jacob Guffey
Gabriel Mare
Emma O’Leary
Samaira Singh
Mt. Bethel Elementary:
Aashray Arun
Pearson Benner
Aman Patel
Ava Rampersaud
Caroline Ross
Anjalika Shammi
Murdock Elementary:
Emily Dalen
Ivan Francis
Sana Hirani
Lanya Hu
Kriya Krishnan
Piper Tilden
Alexia Weber
Rocky Mount Elementary:
Gavin Hollar
Zachary Morgan
Aylin Iscimen
Sope Creek Elementary:
Ashvanth Balaji
Vedansshi Mohanty
Vikky Pannela
Leilani Shelat
R. James Wilson
Ethan Xu
Timber Ridge Elementary:
Alex Blum
Lowery Collins
Talia Munoz
Alex Roller
Anaiza Vency
Jonathan Zeng
Tritt Elementary:
Ethan Bress
Emma Burnett
Cole Mademann
Laina Mehta
Noah Surden
Dickerson Middle School:
Gracie Cavallo
Jackson Pentz
Lydia Zeng
Dodgen Middle School:
Saakshi Aiyer
Debmita Roy
Hightower Middle School:
Shubhan Deshmukh
Sandhya Rajesh
Mabry Middle School:
Sofia Davis
Madison Douglas
Corinne Ginsberg
Alex Mille
Victoria Mills
Melanie Coon, in addition to being one of the Honoring Our Heroes Co-chairs, is also PTA co-president at Davis Elementary and a pediatric nurse practitioner with Wellstar. She has two children, an 11-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son.
Runi Perkins keeps herself busy with her 10 and 7 year old daughters, working at Summit Sweets, and serving her local schools as Davis PTA secretary, Davis Foundation social media chair, Mabry Middle Foundation board member, and co-leader for both of her daughters’ Girl Scout troops.
