Education

Longfellow Middle School student Tajin Rogers captured first place at the regional level of the National History Bee, held recently in Virginia Beach.  His classmate Junyoung Hwang finished second.  

The Vienna Town Council at its Feb. 13 work session further fertilized the idea of creating two gardens on town-owned property behind the Vienna Community Center.

 School Board members on Feb. 9 adopted a $2.4 billion spending proposal for fiscal 2013, which increases expenses by 8.9 percent and adds nearly 750 new positions.

Nicole Gonzalez, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, was named recipient of the 2012 ExxonMobil Gold Medallion for engineering and mathematics as part of the Wasington, D.C., Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, sponsored by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.

The Clan, the McLean High School yearbook, was named a Pacemaker finalist in the National Scholastic Press Association’s Yearbook Pacemaker Awards competition.

Marshall Academy’s CyberPatriot team placed eighth in the nation out of more than 1,100 teams and has been named a national finalist in the third round of the CyberPatriot competition.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology will host its second annual bridge tournament on Friday, Feb. 17 beginning at 2:15 p.m. 

Students at Bishop O’Connell High School are gearing up for the school’s 37th annual Superdance, which since its founding has raised more than $3.5 million in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Students from public and private high schools across the local area have received regional awards in the 2012 Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and administered locally by Writopia Lab. 

Langley High School will present its annual fashion show, “Walk Into the Wild,” on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the high school.

Ari Cukierman, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology and a student at the College of William and Mary, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy.

Three Fairfax County Public Schools students are among eight winners of the 2011-12 Student Playwrights Project 10-Minute Play Competition, sponsored by Arena Stage.

The first day Gregory Hood worked at a middle school, someone told him he either would love the experience, or clamor to escape it.

A measure by Del. David Englin (D-45th) to mandate that Virginia’s public colleges and universities proffer credit for students hitting specific benchmarks on Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests has been killed in Richmond.

Northern Virginia Community College officials say a recently established partnership with educational institutions in South Africa already is paying dividends.

The Safe Community Coalition will host “What’s Love Got to Do With It: Healthy Relationships and Dating” on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at McLean High School.

School Board members on Jan. 26 adopted a five-year, $849 million capital improvement plan to guide development of facilities to meet higher enrollment and replace deteriorating school buildings.

Marshall Road Elementary School has welcomed its first artist-in-residence for the 2011-12 school year.  

Emily Wallach, a seventh-grader at The Langley School in McLean, has been selected to participate in the Virginia Band & Orchestra Directors Association All-District Junior High Band.

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A young dolphin’s brush with death and subsequent recovery illustrate humans’ capacity to help injured wildlife and highlight the need for careful environmental stewardship, said Brandon Paquin, an “aquatic first-responder” with the Wyland Foundation. 

Even if local Virginia school boards finally attain the right to start fall classes before Labor Day without authorization from Richmond – a privilege many have been seeking for years – that change would not come to Fairfax County Public Schools until 2013, school system officials said.

Eleven students from Fairfax County Public Schools have been named semifinalists in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search. 

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale on Jan. 12 proposed $2.4 billion budget for fiscal year 2013 that will require a whopping 9-percent hike of $202.3 million over the current year’s budget.

News of the achievements of local students and members of the Armed Forces.