Jennifer Bowers
Full-time TAG Teacher and Contact Person
BowersJ@fultonschools.org

Welcome to the Talented  and Gifted (TAG) Department at Creek View Elementary School.  My name is Jennifer Bowers, and I have been one of the TAG teachers here at Creek View since the school’s opening in 2001.  I have seven years of previous teaching experience in regular education in kindergarten, 3rd grade, and  4th grade.   I went to Marywood College in Scranton, PA for my first  two years of college, and then graduated from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta,  GA with a B.A. in Early Childhood Education.  Later, I graduated from Mercer  University in Atlanta, GA with a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education and  earned an  add-on certification in Gifted Education.  On a personal note, I have  three children in Fulton County Schools (Abby, Will, and Jack), 2 cats, and 2 dogs.  

Jacque Check
Part-Time TAG Teacher (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Check@fultonschools.org

I attended Bowling Green University, Ohio and got my teaching certificate from Georgia State University with Gifted Certification through Fulton County.    I have 18 years of teaching experience, 13 of them in gifted education.  I am a member of Kappa Delta Pi, Georgia Association for Gifted and Fulton County Supporters of Gifted. I have three
children, and one granddaughter.  My husband and I travel a lot to be with our kids and enjoy boating, biking and photography together. 

Tom Dunmire
Part-Time TAG Teacher (Wednesdays)
DunmireT@fultonschools.org

Tom Dunmire grew up with his parents and sister in Miami, Florida.  He attended  the University of Florida and earned a
Bachelor’s Degree in Building Construction with a minor in Business Administration.  Afterwards he lived in Naples and built custom homes.  Feeling unfulfilled he returned to UF and earned a Master’s in Elementary Education. 
 
After finishing his degree moved to Alpharetta and began his teaching career at Autrey Mill Middle School.  Afterward, he taught Kindergarten at Creek View.  For the last three years he has taught TAG at Birmingham Falls, Alpharetta and Northwood.  Finally he is back at Creek View Teaching TAG is Tom’s dream job.

Tom and his wife, Karen, live in Windward and have a daughter, Paige, and a son, Tommy.  Paige attends Creek
View.

Congratulations to the following individuals for being selected for Duke University's Talent Identification Program for 2012!
Ushmi Akruwala
Aryan Arora
David Chandia
Hadley Dawson
Dara Fuller
Nikhil Jaganathan
Aidan Leahy
William Myslajek
Megan Nestark
Jared Owens
Ian Valdes
Amelia Valdez

Extra!  Extra!  Read All About It!!!

Do You Know Your Representatives?
Well, Dheeraj Eidnani, a fifth grader in Mrs. Snow’s class and a TAG student in Mrs. Bowers’ class, sure does.  For the last year, he has been working on a project called Know Your Representatives.  It sorts and filters the representatives according to their party, district, committees, appropriations sub-committees, building, occupation, the year they became a representative,
spouse, and other vital statistics. You can also view their phone, zip code, their webpage, Facebook page, and biography. He used a program called Pivot by Microsoft to create the project.  

The summer before he began this project, he received a book about Star Wars facts. Dheeraj’s dad taught him how to use Pivot so that he could scan the pictures and enter the information about Star Wars characters for his first project.  A year later, he became curious about why lawmakers were arguing about the deficit. As he began researching, he became inspired to create a Pivot program about the representatives.  It took him a whole summer to do it.

 Since creating the project, he has made several trips to the Georgia State Capitol. He showed his program to Chuck Martin (representative for Alpharetta) and explained his project.  Rep. Martin liked it so much that he called his friend Mr. Marshall, who is the assistant to the Speaker of the House.  Dheeraj was encouraged to apply as a page and gave messages from the representatives to the lobbyists.  He has also shown his project to the clerk, the Speaker of the House, and 4 or 5 other
representatives.  His next step is to show it to all 180 representatives.  
 
Currently, he is working on the senators and will then add some information, including how they vote on bills (green for yes and red for no), whether they are present or absent, and which bills they passed and when. Currently, the representatives and senators record votes on an old electronic system.  Dheeraj’s project would allow them to view this information digitally and can be accessed remotely.  He hopes that his project will be implemented by the state of Georgia during the next session and
that they will set up an educational account for him in order to compensate him for all of his hard work. Eventually he would like to implement this project for all 50 states and 2 territories in the country.


Congratulations to the following individuals for  being selected for Duke University's Talent Identification Program for
  2011!

 Raphael Wasow di Charo
 Jason Oswald
 Emma Prol

Congratulations to the following individuals for being selected for Duke University's Talent Identification Program for
  2010!

 Vaishnavi Bavadekar
 Bronwyn Bennett
 Veronica Bian
 Sofia Bonno
 Abby Bowers
 Lexie Bryant
 Alex Chen
 Neha Embar
 Aryana Gavankar
 Zoe Genet
 Kaavya Gudapati
 Leandro Haddad
 Rohan Kansara
 Franziska Krupp
 Curtis McClelland
 Christopher Natale
 Laura Scherck
 Megan Schnupp
 Puneet Singh
 Stephen Tong
 Tejas Vedantham 
  Evan Zhang

 Congratulations to the following individuals for being selected for Duke University's Talent Identification Program for
  2009!

 Shubohm Bhattacharya
 Andres Bonno
 Rajat Chouchan
 Ben Dugger
 Sammi Fuller
 Jai Mareddy
 Marimackenzie Waldschmidt
 Zack Ziegler

 Way to go, guys!