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Students use GPS to find buried treasure

Annelise Taggard, a Da Vinci Academy eighth-grader, shows brother Sterling, a second-grader, how to zero out a GPS device Tuesday during a treasure hunt at the Spout Springs School of Enrichment in Flowery Branch. With the help of Da Vinci Academy students, the second-graders used compasses and GPS devices to find a buried treasure. - photo by SARA GUEVARA

0521treasure — Annelise Taggard, a Da Vinci Academy eighth-grader, shows brother Sterling, a second-grader, how to zero out a GPS device Tuesday during a treasure hunt at the Spout Springs School of Enrichment in Flowery Branch. With the help of Da Vinci Academy students, the second-graders used compasses and GPS devices to find a buried treasure. - photo by SARA GUEVARA

Second-grade students at Spout Springs School of Enrichment got the chance on Tuesday to find buried treasure. But they got to do more than just follow a map. Christine Gillespie’s second-grade class divided into groups for the treasure hunt and were led by a student from Da Vinci Academy of South Hall Middle School.