April Longest, principal at Farmland Elementary School in Rockville, is this year’s winner of the Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award. The Mark Mann award is presented annually to an MCPS administrator who has shown exceptional performance in promoting academic excellence, positive human relations and community outreach.
Montgomery County Police has announced the arrest of a 16-year-old Paint Branch High School student that brought a handgun on school property. (more…)
A team of local Montgomery County high school students recently won first place, the Inspire Award, in their division at the 2024 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) World Championships.
Lead ‘Em Up, a nationally recognized leadership organization that started in Montgomery County back in 2015, holds an annual celebration for 13 student-athletes who receive their prestigious Green 13 award- […]
Tilden Middle School principal Sapna Hopkins sent a letter to the school community regarding a “live ammunition round (bullet)” that was found on the floor of the boys’s physical education locker room.
Chelsea Zhu, a sophomore at Richard Montgomery High School and an Rockville, Md., resident, was awarded first prize in the 2024 Gaithersburg Book Festival poetry contest for high school students for her poem “Voyage to the Exoplanet.”
The Montgomery County Board of Education will hold a business meeting Thursday, May 23. This will be the first meeting at the Board’s new location, 15 W Gude Drive, Rockville. The meeting agenda is available below. The meeting will be cablecast live on Comcast Channel 34 (HD 1071), Verizon Channel 36, RCN Channel 89 and the MCPS website.
Megan Lee of Watkins Mill High School and Kairo Maysonet Walker of Julius West Middle School were the top winners in their respective categories in this year’s “Keeping it Safe Coalition” student video contest sponsored by Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and the Montgomery County Police Department. The annual contest encourages student teams to create 30-second public service announcements about the risks of under-21 alcohol use.
