Walker Mill Middle School recently received the Maryland Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education award and will be recognized with citations from the Maryland State Department of Education and from Gov. Martin O'Malley (D).

The ceremony will be held Feb. 29 at Laurel's Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Laurel's Montpelier Elementary and Oxon Hill's Valley View Elementary schools were also chosen as state EGATE award winners. EGATE winners like Walker Mill in Capitol Heights were chosen based on their curriculum and extracurricular activities offered to students.