Salimatou Cristal Ouedraogo, an English Language Development teacher at South Lake Elementary School in Gaithersburg has been named a 2024 Global Learning Fellow by the NEA Foundation.
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Earlier this year, five MCPS students–two at Montgomery Blair High School, two at Poolesville High School and one at Winston Churchill High School–were named Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars.
MCPS recently shared that seven of its students from seven different schools attended the High School Girls Policy Leadership Academy, hosted in partnership with Discovery Education, Voice4Equity, the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Initiative for Black Americans.
MCPS announced that two seniors have been named Cooke College Scholars by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Mariel Arevalo Ballon of Wheaton High School, and Melat Ghebreselassie of Springbrook High School, are two of 60 students being recognized across the entire country.
The MCPS Student Leadership & Extracurricular Activities Unit hosted the second annual Next Generation Leadership Day earlier this month (Saturday, April 6) at Wheaton High School.
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Nicholas Berluti, a teacher at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, was named a winner in the 11th annual Maryland Financial Education and Capability Awards last month.
26-year MCPS veteran, Margarita Bohórquez, is this year’s winner of the Dr. Edward Shirley Award for Excellence in Educational Administration and Supervision. Bohórquez is director of International Admissions and Enrollment (IAE) for the school system.