High School

Congratulations to Jack Jones for being selected as a delegate at the Eighty-Fifth American Legion Alabama Boys State. This is an incredible honor and experience for rising Senior young men from across the State of Alabama.  He was a credit to his community and to Macon East Academy.

Jack was elected by his Alabama Boys State peers to the position of House of Representatives. During his week, he served as an active citizen and official while learning about the responsibilities and benefits of citizenship in the State of Alabama and the United States.

Jack received scholarships from The University of Alabama, The University of West Alabama, Hampden Sidney College in Virginia, The University of Montevallo, Troy University, and South Alabama.

Nearly 470 rising high school seniors from across the state participated in the week-long program hosted by Troy University to learn about Alabama, civics, and issues facing Alabama.  Way to go Jack!  #boysstate  #maconeastacademy

Seniors, Rachel Major (cheer) and Luke Noffsinger (baseball, football, and travel baseball) represented Macon East Academy at the 63rd annual Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award ceremony.  Since 1959, the objective of the Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award program has been to recognize Christian leadership in athletics and to encourage and inspire others to emulate the man whose memory is perpetuated by this award. Each year coaches nominate senior athletes who have displayed the most outstanding qualities of Christian leadership in athletics and possesses the following qualities: strong character, dependability, 100% effort, team leadership, church leadership, school leadership, and scholastic leadership. 8^th grade students who exhibit these same qualities are also invited to attend the annual banquet and be recognized.  This year, Berkley Harris and Braiden Watkins represented Macon East Academy as 8^th grade certificate winners.  We are proud to have these athletes a part of our Knight family!

Berkley Harris and Braiden Watkins

Luke Noffsinger

Rachel Major

McKinnon Hammonds was honored at a luncheon recently where he received a scholarship from Montgomery Lion’s Club. He was chosen by his teachers and was interviewed by members of the Lions Club last month for the scholarship. He was one of seven chosen from Montgomery. Congratulations McKinnon!

Congratulations to the high school students inducted into Macon East Academy’s chapter of the Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honor Society: Jameson Byrom, Kaiden Byrom, Anna Watson, Tanner Surles, Barrett Spaeth, Dalton Nickles, Ethan Jones and Will Dekle.  Mu Alpha Theta recognizes excellence in mathematics, and the MEA chapter is sponsored by Mrs. Melissa Baker. 

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians has a proud history of supporting youth in livestock. Each year during SLE Livestock Week, young people from each of Alabama’s 67 counties are awarded scholarships from the Tribe to aid in future participation of youth livestock events or further education.

Pictured with this year’s recipients are L-R: PBCI Tribal Council Member Keith Martin; SLE President Randy Davis; and Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries Rick Pate.

Congratulations to Matthew Pugh!

The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association recently awarded more than $80,000 to deserving young people from across the state at the 2022 Alabama Cattlemen’s Foundation Scholarship Banquet. McKinnon Hammonds, pictured with his Grandfather – a Lowndes county cattlemen, was awarded one of the “Tagged for Greatness” scholarships. We are very thankful for everything that ACA does for the cattle industry, our communities and students. Congrats McKinnon!!

The 10th grade students read Animal Farm by George Orwell, over the course of the third nine weeks. They learned about how power and control can corrupt leadership. They made their own propaganda posters to go along with any part of the novel.

The Macon East chapter of the National Junior Honor Society recently held its annual induction ceremony. The National Junior Honor Society is a worldwide organization that consists of middle school & junior high students from around the country. Selection of members is based on five criteria: citizenship, service, leadership, scholarship and character. Each member is expected to maintain a high academic standard while being active in their community through volunteer service projects. The goal of NJHS is to recognize academic achievement and to develop the characteristics of leadership and service. Serving as officers for the National Junior Honor Society are Julia Mathis (President), Addison Little (Vice President), Chase Lashlee (Secretary), Katie Kitchens (Treasurer) and Mary Taylor May (Chaplain).

Congratulations to this year’s inductees: Alexis Davis, Sarah Davis, Colton Lunn, Caden Mobley, Parker Ruskin, Kelsey Smith, Gavin Spencer, and Madison Vocino.