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Metal detectors coming to Prince William middle, high schools

By Uriah Kiser

Metal detectors are coming to all 17 middle and 14 high schools in Prince William County.

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Freedom High School recognized for helping seniors apply to college

By Madina Habib

A local Prince William County high school, Freedom High School, was recently chosen as one of the 23 schools that the American College Application Campaign (ACAC) selected for its 2022 School Of Excellence award as part of their Virginia College Application Week program School of Excellence award On April, 3, 2023. 

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Data center town hall cancelation: ‘We were never notified of another event’

By Potomac Local News
QTS data center in Manassas [Photo: Google Maps]

However, as we reported Monday, April 17, a Prince William County school said the school was double booked with the town hall meeting and a back-to-school night for parents of rising 6th-grade students.

The school had inadvertently double-booked the schedule (human error). The organization is looking to find another location to host the meeting and that information will be shared once confirmed.

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School principal cancels data center open house; Press conference was planned

By Potomac Local News

The principal at Bull Run Middle School near Gainesville, the site of an open house for a proposed data center next to Manassas National Park tomorrow, April 18, 2023, canceled the event. We first reported the event on Saturday, April 15, 2023.

Instead, the school will host an open house for parents of rising sixth-grade students. “I am not sure of the mix-up, but it is corrected,” states school principal Matthew Phythian in an email.

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Prince William schools employ students still in the classroom

By Potomac Local News

Two students at Independence Nontraditional School in Prince William County now work for the school division as part of the school’s workforce education program.

In the coming weeks, nine more will join them, working in the school division’s facilities department, which oversees construction. The school division’s announcement comes during April, Workplace Readiness Month.

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Amazon commemorates first Think Big Space at River Oaks Elementary

By Potomac Local News

Amazon Web Services and Prince William County Public Schools officials gathered to celebrate the first Think Big Space at River Oaks Elementary School, 16950 McGuffeys Trail in Woodbridge.

The company held the event on Thursday, April 13, 2023. Since the space — two brightly colored classrooms outfitted with technology — opened in 2019, 60 more have opened worldwide.

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Unity Reed High School equestrian vaulter wins $2,000 scholarship

By Paris Goodman

Ainsely Sadler, a 17-year-old Equestrian Vaulter from Bristow, won the National Athletic Scholarship from the National Honor Society of High School Scholars worth $2,000.

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Woodbridge High’s JROTC robotics team wins trip to nationals

By Madina Habib

Woodbridge JROTC has qualified to compete in the JROTC National Championship in Dallas as part of the VEX Robotics Competition.

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Prince William county school admin to be Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society President

By Paris Goodman

C.D. Hylton High School planetarium director Anthony Kilgore has been selected as the new President of the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society (Maps). Anthony was one of three candidates running for the position of President. 

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