<sh>Public Workshops
On Tysons Future
<bt>The Tysons Land Use Task Force and the team of consultants working on planning the future of Tysons Corner will hold a public workshop on Monday, July 16, beginning at 7 p.m. at Vienna Elementary School. The session will begin with a visual presentation, followed by a question and answer period. Then participants will engage in small group discussion to explore the various development scenarios and provide more specific comments on what they have heard. For more information visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/tysonscorner/.
<sh>Center for Excellence
Sponsors Rickoids Program
<bt>Fifty-one of the nation's brightest high school students and 28 international students will begin an intensive six-week program on June 24 that includes college-level classes and graduate-level research led by top scientists. The Research Science Institute is a highly selective program offered tuition-free to approximately 90 high school juniors every summer. Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RSI is sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education, a nonprofit in McLean that nurtures young scholars to careers of excellence in science and technology.
"The Research Science Institute provides a unique opportunity for the nation's best students to engage in high-caliber research and connect with like-minded peers," said Joann DiGennaro, president and co-founder of the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean. "For many of our students, RSI is a jump start to venerable futures in science."
From June 24 to Aug. 4, RSI students - dubbed "Rickoids" after the late Admiral H.G. Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy and co-founder of the Center - will take one week of academic courses at MIT and then spend four weeks in research internships under the mentorship of prominent scientists and mathematicians at Boston-area universities, hospitals and corporate research facilities. The 28 international students come from 12 different countries.
The Center for Excellence in Education was founded in 1983 by Rickover and DiGennaro, who still runs it today.
<sh>Connection Online
Photo Galleries
<bt>The Connection has launched a new feature on the Connection Newspapers’ Web site, photo galleries. Every week, Connection photographers and reporters take hundreds of pictures at events around Northern Virginia and most often only one or two photos make it into print.
Now on the Connection Web site, readers can find many more photos from events. It is a work in progress, but photos from many events, including high school proms, graduations and community events are already posted.
Readers can e-mail the images to share them, and also have the opportunity to purchase prints, digital images or other items.
See www.ConnectionNewspapers.com, and click on “Connection Photo Galleries.”