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The Briar Woods High School Music Boosters will be hosting its first annual rummage sale Saturday, June 2, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., rain date Sunday, June 3. All donations can be dropped off at the school bus parking lot) on Friday, June 1, from 4:30-8:30 p.m. The boosters will be accepting furniture, no torn or broken pieces, house wares, kitchen gadgets, electronics, toys, sports equipment, books, compact discs, DVDs, gently-worn clothing and more. This sale will benefit the Briar Woods High School Band Department in helping to purchase equipment. All donations are tax exempt.
The Broad Run High School Project Graduation Committee is selling raffle tickets. The cost of a ticket is $5, with a limit of 400 tickets available. One winner will receive $1,000. A second winner of $1,000 will be one of the seniors who attends Project Graduation party. Contact Carol Peters by e-mail carol.peters4@verizon.net or by telephone at 703-450-2344.
Stone Bridge High School students won awards at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Shenandoah Region Competition Friday, March 9, at Shenandoah University in Winchester.
Capturing first-place awards were Jodi Davis, Introduction to Business Communications; Colby Caldwell, Tiffany Levy, Alyssa Jensen and Brooke Martin, Parliamentary Procedure Team.
Taking home second-place awards were Bryan Reilly, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure; Korrin Allen-Cervantes and Catherine Christensen, American Enterprise Report.
Placing third were Maggie Hinson, Siatta Merchant, Kristen Pascale, Entrepreneurship Team; Randyl Fabian, Samantha Greenwood, Management Decision Making Team and Joshua Buckingham, Public Speaking I.
Two students were installed as Shenandoah Region FBLA officers; Colby Caldwell, Reporter, and Brooke Martin, Parliamentarian.
Stone Bridge adviser, David Palanzi, was recognized for his service as the Shenandoah Region Adviser.
Eagle Ridge has been recognized as the 105th middle school in the nation, the eighth middle school in the state of Virginia, and the first of two middle schools in Loudoun County to receive the Schools to Watch honor. Schools to Watch is an initiative launched by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform in 1999 to identify schools that are on their way to meeting the forum's criteria for high performance. The National Forum is an alliance of more than 60 educators, researchers and officers of national associations and foundations dedicated to improving schools for young adolescents across the country.
Faculty and graduate students from The George Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science will lead approximately 120 high-school students from Loudoun County Public High School through nine workshops at the GW Virginia Campus to illustrate different engineering careers. The workshops include building a 20-foot modular bridge, digitizing a crash test dummy, creating an electrical circuit, testing driving skills and tracking computer hackers. Participants also may experiment with computer animation and digital media, experience a simulated earthquake, learn how technology contributes to crisis management, and learn how to separate fact from fabrication in accident investigation.