STAFFORD — Two Stafford County Public Schools students scored perfectly.
Mountain View High School’s Juliana Calvert and Colonial Forge High School’s Joseph Ramos earned perfect scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams taken in May 2018, the school division announced this week.
MANASSAS PARK — Students and staff in Manassas Park are doing their part to fight hunger in their city.
Throughout the year, the city’s high school serves as the location used to distribute food to combat food insecurity in the community.
STAFFORD COUNTY — Two finalists in the Washington Post’s annual educator awards work in Stafford County.
Benjamin Diggs, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher at North Stafford High School, and Robert Bingham, Principle of H. H. Poole Middle School, were finalists in the Washington Post Teacher and Principal of the Year contests.
DALE CITY — Nearly 2,000 home-schooled students in Prince William County will soon have the opportunity to take classes with other students.
A new Woodbridge Homeschool Co-Op will begin meeting at Hillendale Baptist Church in Dale City this fall. The co-op will offer kindergarten through 12th grade homeschooled students the opportunity to take three classes per week with other students.
STAFFORD — Cydny A. Neville, MAEd, a teacher from Rodney Thompson Middle School in Stafford County, has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 32 summer seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The endowment is a federal agency that, each summer, supports these enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions so teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines.
STAFFORD — Germanna Community College’s Stafford campus is growing quickly forcing the college to expand the overcrowded campus.
The Stafford campus named the Barbara J. Fried Center when it opened in summer 2018 near Stafford Hospital is already having capacity problems. The campus already has 700 students enrolled in its first year of use.
FAIRFAX — (Press release) The 58 best high school robotics teams from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. will compete in the FIRST Chesapeake District Championship at George Mason University April 12-13, 2019.
This is STEM-education at its loudest and most enthusiastic: hundreds of sharp kids and a crowd of fans to cheer them on.
WOODBRIDGE — (Press release) Fifty-five years and still going strong, Woodbridge High School has a long history and thousands of alumni.
To honor both, the school created an Alumni and History Wall to represent students, staff, faculty, and programs. Annually, Woodbridge hosts an alumni event to add the newest images to the wall. This year the school honored one of its former principals and the theatre program.
STAFFORD – (Press Release) Brooke Point High School Inspire Virginia student officers will host a Virginia Senior Rally on Tuesday, April 9, at 8 a.m. The group has organized a voter registration rally at BPHS to address the importance of registering to vote and participating in elections.
The goal of the group is to promote citizenship and engagement among the graduating class of 2019. Student leaders trained by Inspire Virginia representatives to register new voters will lead the effort.
WOODBRIDGE — A $36 million renovation of Northern Virginia Community College’s Woodbridge campus is expected to start in fall 2020. The Seefeldt Building will be updated to include centralized student services, new classroom spaces, and updated infrastructure.
The renovation, which will take approximately 18-24 months, will provide badly-needed updates and changes to the nearly 50-year-old building.
