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A Poolesville High School science teacher has been honored by the state for using the environment to teach help students understand the physical world.
Physics teacher Dan Savino received the third annual James B. Coulter Award from the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Maryland Petroleum Council on May 13. The award honors environmental achievements by governmental employees.
Savino incorporates the environment into his science and social studies lessons, such as by using beaver lodges to teach about engineering, creeks to illustrate fluid dynamics, canoes in the Potomac River to show buoyancy and maple syrup production to demonstrate plant vascular structure and gas pressure laws. He also bikes to work and organizes litter clean-ups in Poolesville.
Savino is a teacher in Poolesville's Global Ecology Studies Program.
Carnival at Poolesville school
Poolesville Elementary School PTA is sponsoring a Spring Carnival 4-7 p.m. Friday at the school,19565 Fisher Ave.
There will be moonbounces, an inflatable rock climbing wall, a dunk tank, a cake walk and carnival games. The cost is $5 per child with a $20 maximum per family. Pizza will be available for purchase and popcorn and drinks are free.
Waters Landing
celebrates 20 years
Waters Landing Elementary School's PTA is getting ready for the annual school carnival, Dolphinmania! From 4-7 p.m. May 30. The carnival will include the 20th Anniversary celebration of Waters Landing Elementary School, 13100 Waters Landing Drive, Germantown.
Attractions include moonbounces, giant inflatable obstacle course and slide, carnival games, prizes, crafts, food, music, a silent auction and a teacher auction.
Clarksburg student among
four to earn scholarship
Four Montgomery County Public Schools seniors, including one from Clarksburg High School, are among approximately 800 students nationwide to receive awards in the 2009 National Achievement Scholarship Program for African-American students.
The recipients of the $2,500 National Achievement scholarships are Abiye L. Ibiebele of Clarksburg High School, Richard A. Adjogah of John F. Kennedy High School in Glenmont, Abiola D. Laniyonu of Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville and Joseph E. Walburn of Northwood High School.
The winners were selected from more than 150,000 students who participated in the program, which is privately financed and annually conducted by the nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corp. The four winners are among 48 Maryland students who will receive awards this year.
Thomas Edison
program awarded
Thomas Edison High School of Technology in Wheaton earned the Maryland State Department of Education's Outstanding Career Technology Education Student Organization award for its chapter of SkillsUSA, a national nonprofit organization serving teachers and high school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations.
Edison student representatives and staff members were honored at the 2009 Awards of Excellence Ceremony on April 28 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel.
Program to offer advice
about college admissions
A program titled "The College Admissions Game: The Rules Have Changed" will be held 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Francis Scott Key Middle School, which is occupying a school system holding facility in North Bethesda.
The event will feature advice from Shirley Levin, a college consultant, and will answer questions about the college admissions process, what college admissions offices consider besides academics, what courses students should take to prepare for a competitive college and more.
Students are welcome to attend. The event is sponsored by the Gifted & Talented Association of Montgomery County Inc.
The Tilden Holding Center is at 6300 Tilden Lane.
Recycle your school supplies
Students cleaning out their lockers at the end of the school year can cut down on waste and help other students in need by donating new and still-usable school supplies.
Learn Shop Inc.'s annual Drive for Supplies collected 15,021 pounds of school supplies in 2008. Contact individual schools to see if they are participating in the program.
For more information, call 301-670-1419 or visit www.montgomery
schoolsmd.org/departments/
studentaffairs/sao/supplies.
Northwest to host
education conference
Northwest High School will host the fifth annual Partners for Rigor Through Relevancy Conference on June 23.
Parents are invited to attend the conference, "Challenging 21st Century Learners—Connecting Classrooms," which will focus on challenging and engaging students and connecting classroom instruction to the global community. The conference will run from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Germantown school, 13501 Richter Farm Road.
The event is sponsored by Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery College, Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education, the Universities at Shady Grove and the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associates. Scheduled speakers include economist Ronald Ferguson; Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy; Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation; Michael Martirano, superintendant of St. Mary's County Public Schools; 2009 Maryland Teacher of the Year William Thomas; and 2006 National Teacher of the Year Kim Oliver.
For more information, contact conference coordinator Laura Grace at 240-632-6937 or laura_r_grace@
mcpsmd.org or visit www.montgomery
schoolsmd.org/departments/cte/conf.
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