Walter Johnson wins It’s Academic Superbowl

The quiz-format competition tests the knowledge of students from high schools from the Washington area, Baltimore area and Virginia.

The captain of the Walter Johnson team is senior Tianhui Shen. Sophomore Daichi Ueda also played in the Washington championship and Superbowl championship games. The third team member in the Washington championship game was junior Aki Onda; for the Superbowl, it was sophomore Andi Shahu.

The It’s Academic team at Walter Johnson has been coached for 14 years by physics teacher Mark Whipple. Joan McDermott, a science teacher at the school, served as co-coach for the first time this year.

Walter Johnson also won the It’s Academic Superbowl in 2005.

The Washington-area championship match will air at 10 a.m. June 30 on WRC Channel 4, and the It’s Academic Superbowl will air at 7 p.m. the same date.

‘High School Musical’to return for encore

Disney’s ‘‘High School Musical” will return to James Hubert Blake High School for four shows Thursday through Saturday.

Show times are Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 7:30 and Saturday at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

A student cast will perform.

Student and adult tickets are $12 (reserved seating only). Call Blake High at 301-879-1300 or 301-879-1327 for ticket information.

Blake High School is located at 300 Norwood Road in Cloverly.

Blake inducts seven into National Honor Society

The James Hubert Blake chapter of the National Honor Society held its annual informal spring induction ceremony on June 5.

Seven members from the Class of 2008 were inducted into the National Honor Society.

The formal induction ceremony for students and their parents will take place in December.

New inductees include Erin Hamilton, James Lanning, Sarah Monsheimer, Rebecca Martin, Christopher Moy, Kara Rose and Jonmarc Winfield.

Candidates for the National Honor Society are evaluated on four main criteria: scholarship, leadership, character and service to the school and community.

The Blake chapter of the National Honor Society maintains a scholarship requirement of a 3.5 unweighted or 4.0 weighted cumulative grade point average.

Christ Episcopalis going green

To increase its commitment to becoming a green school, Christ Episcopal School has created an outdoor classroom and children’s garden in the courtyard of the school on Jefferson Street in Rockville.

The classes have created a garden that will provide multiple opportunities to enhance the curriculum at every grade level. Some of the projects include a ladybug house, a welcome garden and a butterfly garden. A wildlife inventory will be conducted.

Ground was broken on May 5 and plants are up and prospering. Corn, runner beans and squash, ‘‘The Three Sisters of Life” to Native Americans, are growing well, school officials say.

All students are working cooperatively with parent volunteers, faculty and Principal Jane Pontius to develop learning in the urban garden and to gain respect for living organisms.

The students in Camp Cardinal, a summer program, will care for the garden from June to September. In September, next year’s kindergarten will harvest the plants as they learn about the exchange between Native Americans and European settlers.

In preparing the beds, the children discovered pottery shards of ironstone and porcelain dating to 1820.

Edison students score big in poster contest

Five students from Thomas Edison High School of Technology in Wheaton were announced as winners in the ‘‘Our Earth is a Gift, Give it a Lift, Recycle” poster contest sponsored by Montgomery County Waste Management.

Competing in the in the high school multimedia⁄3D category, Camilo Caffi won first place, Bryan Karmel took second place, Daniel Jenkins took third place, and Chris Kaczmarek and Bora Ersoy both received honorable mentions.

All Edison winners are enrolled in the Printing, Graphics and Electronic Media program taught by Scott Price.

Caffi’s first-place poster will be featured around the county on the new MCPS Waste Management and Montgomery County Solid Waste Services publications.

Academy of Finance senior wins top award

Montgomery County National Academy of Finance senior Nikki Lawrence is the recipient of the Citigroup Academy of Finance Scholarship of $20,000.

Only 20 students nationwide receive the honor.

In addition to the scholarship, she will be paired with a Citigroup mentor and earn a summer internship at one of the Citigroup subsidiaries worldwide.

As a student in the Academy of Finance at Einstein High School, Lawrence has challenged herself by taking AP-level classes in mathematics, English and science and by attending Montgomery College, taking ‘‘Introduction to Business” and calculus courses.

She has also been a member of the W.E.B. Dubois Honor Society since ninth grade and a consistent member of the honor roll. She has received awards for academic excellence.

For more information about the Academy of Finance and other career academies, call Sandra Navidi, coordinator, at 240-632-6938 or send an e-mail to Sandra_L_navidi@mcpsmd.org.

School Notes will take a break for the summer after this issue. It will resume in September after the new school year begins.