Voting for Student Member of the Board of Education This Week
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students will be able to vote for the next Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB) this Thursday, April 22 and Friday, April 23.
Henry Kaye and Hana O’Looney are this year’s finalists for the position. Both candidates are juniors at Richard Montgomery High School.
Kaye is an eagle scout, varsity athlete and small business owner. Kaye began his campaign as he believes that it is incredibly difficult to get involved with student government at the county level.
“The incredibly high barrier to entry for county-wide advocacy has led to a lack of diversity and equitable representation for students in Montgomery County,” Kaye said. “This needs to change and it needs to change now.”
A group of high school students in Rockville, Maryland, have taken their love for math to the next level.
Richard Montgomery High School students Alexander Karbowski, Jerry Shen, Danesh Sivakumar, Tony Wu, and Junzhi Xie entered an international competition focused on using math to solve real-world problems.
The challenge was to use math to find a solution to making internet accessible to all.
And if that seemed a little too easy: The team only had 14 hours to do it virtually.
“For me, [it] opened my mind to how many different ways math can be used beyond just looking at formulas,” said Richard Montgomery senior Shen.
Plus: Student school board member election on Thursday, Friday; RespectFest starts Sunday
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April 15, 2021
Board of Education meeting on Tuesday
The Montgomery County Board of Education will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss school reopenings, the recent state legislative session, an ongoing “anti-racist system audit” and the possible historical designation of a school facility.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Some school board members will attend in person while others will log on virtually.
The board will first discuss the possible historical designation of the Edward U. Taylor Science Materials Center, according to the meeting agenda.
According to state records, the center, which is in Boyds, was built in 1951. It was named for Edward U. Taylor, the “Supervisor of Negro Education in Montgomery County” from 1923 to 1951, according to the state records.
“Getting more people younger people vaccinated faster is certainly a goal,” Hogan said.
WTOP asked college and high school students whether they were eager to get vaccinated.
Sean Quiroga, 19, a student at Montgomery College, said, “There’s a good portion of students who are excited” about getting vaccinated. “They want to get back to normal.”
But Quiroga said others have expressed reservations, questioning the speed in which the new vaccines were developed.
At a recent student senate meeting, Quiroga urged everyone to get vaccinated “Because I feel like this is the only way we can go back to somewhat of a ‘new normal,’ and we can beat this pandemic.”
School Notes: State investigating linked COVID-19 cases at six Montgomery County schools
Plus: ‘Let’s Talk Careers’ event will feature health officials; Richard Montgomery students in finals of international math competition
April 12, 2021 | 9:33 am
State investigating associated COVID-19 cases at six Montgomery County schools
The Maryland Department of Health is investigating COVID-19 “outbreaks” at six county schools.
The schools are listed on an online database tracking current “outbreaks” because they have at least two cases that are “epidemiologically linked,” according to the website. That is one of three definitions of an “outbreak.”
Other definitions of a school “outbreak” are:
• Three or more classrooms with cases that meet the above criteria within the past 14 days