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Candidates for the 36th Student Member of the Board of Education
The election season of the 36th Student Member of the Board of Education has begun. This year, four candidates from three different schools will run during the county-wide nominating convention, they...
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A Look at Special Education
In Montgomery County, students receive a top-notch education, one of the best in the country. Ranked highly in graduation rates and AP test performances, the county has won numerous awards for its...
View ArticleSchools Out… Still SO Stressed!
My heart aches, and a piercing sorrow pains my sense, as though of black tea I had take, or swallowed some cocoa extracts for the brain these hours past, leaving sunken my winged arms. It’s not through...
View ArticleYou Were A Number. Make Yourself A Living Portrait.
(INSTRUCTION: BEFORE READING, PLEASE TAKE A DEEP BREATH) “Coherent Organization…” “Effective Presentation of Content…” “Free of Mechanical Errors…” GIVE ME A BREAK. First off, paramount figures of...
View ArticleMCPS Students Win National Merit Scholarships
Yesterday, Montgomery County Public Schools released the following announcement. Congratulations to all the winners on behalf of The MoCo Student! Twenty-four Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)...
View ArticleMCPS Schools Experience Increase in Graduation Rates
Superintendent Joshua Starr is in for an early Christmas present: graduation rates in Montgomery County have not only sustained last year’s substantial precedent, but have experienced a pleasantly...
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The Saturday Morning Crowd
More than one thousand eighth grade students from public and private middle schools around Montgomery County gathered at Blair, Richard Montgomery, and Poolesville High School this morning to take...
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Blair Student Shares Experiences as a Young Woman in STEM
When Jessica Shi, a senior at Montgomery Blair High School, discovered that she had been named a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, she was, like the forty other students across the...
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Nearly 2,000 Applicants Vie for Acceptance into Blair, Richard Montgomery,...
The autumn months are overwhelmed with seemingly endless application processes. As MCPS high school seniors prepare for college, their elementary and middle school counterparts are amassing resumes...
View ArticleSixteen MCPS Students named Semifinalists in 2015 Intel Science Talent Search
Earlier today, the Intel Science Talent Search announced the names of the 300 semifinalists for its 2015 nation-wide science competition. Maryland is home to 21 of the semifinalists, with Montgomery...
View ArticleBlair Junior to Perform at Carnegie Hall
Violinist Sabrina Martin has been selected to play at Carnegie Hall on February 22 in the High School Honors performance series presented by WorldStrides, an educational travel organization. The...
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Blair High School Students Build Model Submarines
Before the first semester drew to a close, Blair magnet students completed one last project before finishing their year-long engineering class. This final project was to build model sea gliders,...
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Two MCPS Students Named Intel STS Finalists
Intel finalist Yizhen Zhang, working at a lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Yizhen Zhang and Michael Winer, two MCPS seniors, were named finalists in the 2015 Intel Science Talent...
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Magnet Schools Court Prospective Students
Teachers and administrators answer questions at an open house for students accepted into the Richard Montgomery IB program. During the first week of February, thousands of students anxiously opened...
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Blair Senior Claims Top Prize in Intel STS 2015
Michael “Mike Winston” Winer, a senior at Blair High School, was recently named a first prize recipient of the Intel Science Talent Search competition. The win will add to Blair’s track record of over...
View ArticleMCPS Students Named National Merit, Presidential Scholars
Earlier today, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation named 21 MCPS high school seniors as National Merit Scholars, each of whom will receive a $2,500 scholarship. This past September, the National...
View ArticleFourteen MCPS High Schools Mentioned in U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best...
In the recently released U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best High Schools List, fourteen public schools in Montgomery County received mentions. These schools include Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Blair,...
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