Two students at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville have won awards from the Siemens Foundation for having the highest math and science Advanced Placement scores in Maryland.

Clare Liu and Victor Ying, both seniors, each received $2,000 through the Siemens Foundation’s Award for Advanced Placement.

The foundation gives the monetary awards annually to one male and one female student from each state, and also awards $5,000 to one male and one female student for its national AP awards.

In information provided to the foundation, Liu, who has taken five AP courses to date, plans to study computer science in college and eventually become a biomedical researcher. Ying also has taken five AP classes and eventually wants to go into engineering after studying physics.

The Siemens Foundation, based in New Jersey, is the nonprofit arm of Siemens AG, a global electronics and engineering company.

Council hosting public hearing on school construction

The Montgomery County Council will have a public hearing at 7 p.m. Thursday on the fiscal 2013 capital budget and the fiscal 2013-18 capital plan for Montgomery County Public Schools.

The school system’s Board of Education requested $279 million for capital projects in fiscal 2013, and $1.49 billion for the next six fiscal years total. However, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) recommended about $135 million less ($1.355 billion) during that same six-year period.

The hearing will take place at the Stella B. Werner Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville.

To sign up to speak, call 240-777-7803. The hearing will be televised live on County Cable Montgomery, and streamed live at www.montgomerycountymd.gov.

Montgomery College hosting humanities speakers

Montgomery College’s Germantown campus is hosting several humanties speakers during the next few months who will speak on subjects ranging from Mark Twain to the global economy.

The “Athenaeum” series, hosted by the college’s Humanties, Social Studies and Education Division, will feature the following speakers:

ŸFeb. 15: Don Bliss, the great-grandson of Mark Twain’s publisher and the author of a book about Twain’s politics scheduled to be published in the coming year.

ŸMarch 21: Patrick Beldio, sculptor and philosopher, will host a discussion on, “The Future of Art: Re-Enchantment in Contemporary Art.”

ŸApril 11: Frank Islam, chairman and CEO of the FI Investment Group, will discuss the “Renewing the American Dream” and the global economy.

All events are free and open to the public, and will start at 7 p.m. They will take place at the Germantown campus’ High Tech Building, Globe Hall. The campus’ primary address is 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown.

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