Five members of the Loudoun County School Board answered questions from the delegates of the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents (LEAP) during LEAP’s May 8th meeting.
Stone Bridge High School DECA chapter members earned the organization’s highest honors at DECA’s 67th annual International Career Development Conference, April 24-27, in Anaheim, Calif.
Nick Feight of Battlefield High School was selected as the Cedar Run District’s Baseball Player of the Year through a vote of the district’s coaches. Battlefield’s Jay Burkhart was named Coach of the Year
Skunks eat stink bugs.That kind of figures, doesn’t it?That obscure environmental factoid was one of the many bits of knowledge dispensed to Belmont Ridge Middle School students during an Earth Day celebration on April 22nd.
Briar Woods Independent Science Research students Moustapha Ouattara, Ashkan Abousaeedi, Eric Rothacker, Jed Alcantara, Kaelin Davis, Maha Siddiqi and Pushpak Pondugula were finalists in the Robert H. Herndon Memorial Science Achievement Competition on April 11th.
A free concert featuring traditional Japanese drumming, songs and dances will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23rd, in the John Champe High School auditorium.
The Festival Singers, 160 students from the Little River and Horizon elementary schools’ fourth and fifth grade choruses, traveled to Kings Dominion on Saturday, May 4th, to compete in the annual Festival of Music in the theme park’s Action Theater
Broad Run High School senior McKall Miller was named the Cedar Run Softball Player of the Year through a vote of the district’s coaches. Osbourn’s Tom McCauley was named Coach of the Year.
The Memorial Wall at Frederick Douglass Elementary School has received a Community Blue Ribbon Award from the Loudoun County Joint Architectural Review Board (JARB).
The Potomac Falls High School Guitar Quartet added yet another achievement to its list of distinctions as the ensemble performed May 2nd at the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Deng Chol, one of the “Lost Boys of the Sudan,” will be the featured speaker during the awards ceremony for the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Social Science and Global Studies Academic Awards and Celebration.
Yearbook editors Ashley Jackson, Katie Pownall and Christina Sanders represented the 2012 Saga staff when they accepted a Gold Crown from Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) the organization’s 89th annual Scholastic Convention.
Senior goalie Bailey Carver of Woodgrove High School is the 2013 Dulles District Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year. Tuscarora High School’s Anna Kate Collier was named Coach of the Year.
Timmy Siegel, a second-grader at Newton-Lee Elementary School, is the K-12 winner of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Regional America Recycles Day contest.
Rolling Ridge Elementary needs a new outdoor track, so nearly 120 students, parents and staff members walked miles around the existing track on April 26th as a kick-off for a series of fund-raisers planned to pay for the construction of their new facility.
To celebrate School Library Month, students at Countryside Elementary were challenged to read 3,000 hours (collectively) during the first two weeks of April.
The Leesburg Police Department will be offering two youth camps this summer. Junior Police Camp is for rising sixth- to eighth-graders. The Kidsmart Safety Camp is for children aged 6-10.
Sixty Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) students were selected through audition to participate in this year’s All-Virginia Chorus and the Middle School ACDA Honors Chorus.
Members of the Briar Woods High School DECA chapter earned the organization’s highest honors at DECA’s 67th annual International Career Development Conference, April 24-27, in Anaheim, Calif.
Dr. Kenneth Towbin, the chief of clinical child and adolescent psychiatry Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, will speak from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16th, at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Administrative Offices in Ashburn.
The Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA)-Loudoun Campus is inviting students from various grade levels to participate in hands-on, robotics camps that focus on science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts.
Monroe Technology Center (MTC) has named the top students in each of its programs for the third nine-week grading period. Awards were given for participants in both “A” and “B” days (some programs meet on only one day).
The Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents (LEAP) will hold its final meeting of the 2012-2013 school year on Wednesday, May 8th, at the School Administrative Offices in Ashburn.
As a way to implement more STEM education in a general public school setting, Eagle Ridge Middle challenged its students and staff on April 19th by holding an all-day STEM education event.
Recently, 23 Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) band students were selected for the 2013 Virginia All-State Band and Orchestra, which was hosted by the Virginia Music Educators Association at Harrisonburg High School
Briar Woods High School junior Michael Holohan and senior Boyd Qu won the Virginia High School League Group AA Policy Debate state championship during the State Debate Tournament April 19th and 20th at Liberty University in Lynchburg.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is reaching out to all residents to better understand the priorities of the community it serves. In a survey to launch on Monday, April 29th, parents and Loudoun County residents are invited to share their thoughts and ideas on the school district’s priorities to help district leadership in their decision-making.
Students at Sugarland Elementary got a taste of Washington, D.C.’s, Cherry Blossom Festival on Friday, April 12th, when it received a visit from the Okinawan Taiko Drummers of Wisconsin (OTDW).
The Broad Run Indoor Drum Line and Winter Guard stole the show April 6th and 7th at the Atlantic Indoor Association (AIA) Championships in Raleigh, N.C. Competing against other units from Virginia and North Carolina, both won the gold medal and title of First Place Champions in their respective classes.
Freedom High School’s speech and debate team swept aside the competition April 12th and 13th at the National Forensic League (NFL) qualifying tournament at Madison County High School.
All 12 of the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) high schools eligible to be ranked nationally by The Washington Post’s Challenge Index received this honor in 2013. (John Champe High School is not yet eligible to be ranked.)
Seventh-graders at Harper Park Middle School got a living history lesson about World War II and other 20th century conflicts from the people who lived through them on Tuesday, April 9th.
Through the combined efforts of the Loudoun Education Foundation (LEF) and Loudoun County resident Hugh McKee, 10 Loudoun County middle schools will receive from $1,000 to $10,000 in grant money to support interdisciplinary projects.
Health & Medical Science students from Monroe Technology Center were recently recognized for excellence at the 33rd Annual Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) State Leadership Conference March 15th through 17th in Williamsburg.
Sharon Draper, author of “Out of My Mind” and nearly 30 other children’s and young adult books launched the “One Community, One Book” inclusion project on April 2nd at Cedar Lane Elementary.
Lisa Roth, a first grade teacher at Dominion Trail Elementary School, is the recipient of The Washington Post 2013 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award for Loudoun County.
Woodgrove High School repeated as the Academic Challenge champion after the finals of this event were held on Thursday, April 4th, at Tuscarora High School.
Janet Platenberg, the principal of Steuart Weller Elementary School, has been selected as the 2013 winner of The Washington Post’s Distinguished Educational Leadership Award for Loudoun County.
Odyssey of the Mind Catoctin Region 14 and Dulles Region 16 held regional competitions March 2nd at Park View High School and March 9th at Tuscarora High School, respectively.
This year the Loudoun Arbor Day Celebration Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 13th, at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn.
100 students and chaperones from Catoctin and Frances Hazel Reid elementary schools were among the more than 30,000 people who participated in the 135th White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 1st.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) was one of three school districts nationwide honored with the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award.
The Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) will hold a Town Hall meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18th, at the LCPS Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn.
Broad Run High School hosted the Shenandoah Region of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Regional Conference and Awards Ceremony on March 16th.