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Montgomery County Students Automotive Trades Foundation and Montgomery County Students Information Technology Foundation will be selling used cars and computers 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Damascus High School.
All used vehicles are Maryland inspected and most come with a 30-day, 1,000-miles warranty. Vehicle sale prices start as low as $1,600. A $100 deposit (cash or check) is required for each vehicle purchased. Tax, tags and fees are in addition to the price of the vehicle.
The event's lottery will begin at 11 a.m.
The used computer sale will offer Black Pentium 4 used personal computers that were donated to the Students Information Technology Foundation, whose students refurbish and test the network operations as part of their classroom and lab studies.
Each computer includes a CD-ROM drive, floppy disk drive, color monitor, keyboard, mouse, network interface card (for network installation or high-speed internet connection) and four USP ports.
Blank hard disk drive computers, with no operating systems, will cost $69. Computers with Microsoft Windows XP Home installed will cost $159. Cash or checks will be accepted.
For more information about the computer sale, contact John Brewer at 301-929-6975 or visit www.itfcareers.org.
For more information and a list of vehicles for sale, call Mike Snyder at 301-929-2164 or visit www.
autocareers.org.
All proceeds from each of the sales will benefit the student foundations.
Damascus High School is located at 25921 Ridge Road. The snow date is Feb. 28.
Making a clean sweep
The Lean Green Cleaning Machines, a robotics team formed in 2008 by middle school students in Gaithersburg, won first prize last month at the 2008-2009 First Lego League State competition at the University of Maryland Baltimore.
It was the team's second year taking a first place award at the competition and the team's robot won an award for innovative design.
Gaithersburg residents Suri Venugopal, Kapish Manicka and Matthew Bird and Damascus resident Patrick Scott took the prize.
Venugopal, a freshman at Northwest High School in Germantown; Manicka, a freshman at Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood and Bird, a freshman at Poolesville High School are original team members who met through the 4-H Adventure in Science Program at Gaithersburg's National Institute of Standards and Technology. Scott, a seventh-grader at Montgomery Village Middle School, joined the team this year, along with his father John, who is the team's coach.
MCPS students are candidates for Presidential Scholars award
Twenty Montgomery County Public Schools seniors were selected as candidates for the Presidential Scholars award, considered by many to be one of the highest honors given to high school students in the United States.
Students are invited to apply based on their scores on the SAT or ACT exam. The program also recognizes students who demonstrate exceptional talent in the visual, creative and performing arts. Last year, the county school system had 15 Presidential Scholars candidates, including one scholar in the arts.
All 20 candidates this year were chosen from high school seniors nationwide for academic achievement. There were no candidates for the arts component of the program this year.
Candidates and their schools are: Jessica Chen, Edward Gan, Sneha Kannan, Willy Li, Daniel Stiles, Monica Wei and Henry Zhang from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring; Lucas Chang and Andrew Cho from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac; Kevin Haaga, Kara Karpman, Claire Kwong, Abiola Laniyonu, Rebecca Portman and Nathan Prillaman from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville; Carly Gayle from Poolesville High School; Thomas Berry and Rachel Zhang from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda; and Jonathan Liang and Andrea Tian from Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville.
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