Champion Seahawks Take Flight at Early Grad Walk Gretchen Phillips May 09, 2024 - 11:02 am
May 09, 2024
St. Mary’s College of Maryland recognized 15 senior student-athletes in a special grad walk for the senior men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, who due to the spot they’ve earned in the NCAA Championship Tournament will miss the regularly scheduled 2024 Commencement exercises Saturday, May 11.
Men’s and women’s lacrosse student-athletes will be competing that day in the second and first...
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Starting with the 2024-2025 school year, Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) will offer additional space in its prekindergarten program for three-year-old students. To be considered for a three-year-old PreK space, a child must be three years old on or before Sept. 1, 2024. The child's family must also meet income eligibility requirements to apply and live in Charles County. Three-year-old children with an active IEP are also eligible for a PreK space.
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Charles Co. Virtual Summer Academy, SAT Prep programs this summer for students in Grades 4-12, information webinar set for May 13
Parents and students looking to bridge learning gaps and develop essential skills to prepare for the upcoming school year can learn more about the Virtual Summer Academy and SAT Prep programs through FEV Tutor.
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Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is composed of 38 schools and four educational learning centers. Historically, CCPS schools, centers and facilities are either named for a person, geographic location or region. Board of Education of Charles County Policy 7230 guides the school naming process. Following the policy, school names must meet specific criteria and model CCPS/Board core values, mission and goals.
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Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) teams recently competed in the Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) state competition, with four CCPS elementary school clubs taking first place in challenges designed to test engineering know-how, creativity and teamwork.
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Kingsland '25 Receives ASBMB Grant Chuck Steenburgh May 06, 2024 - 8:26 am
May 06, 2024
Tamani Kingsland '25, a biochemistry and biology double-major from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has received a $1,200 Undergraduate Research Grant from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Kingsland's grant will support her 2024 St. Mary's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) project this summer under the guidance of faculty mentor Professor Pamela Mertz.
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The Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) recently recertified Berry Elementary School, Henry E. Lackey high School and Thomas Stone High School as 2024 Maryland Green Schools. Eight other schools achieved Sustainable Schools level by MAEOE this year. Gale-Bailey Elementary School achieved Sustainable Bronze level due to the schools’ participation and support of the Green Schools program for 18 years.
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Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is celebrating National Teacher Appreciation Week May 6 through 10. The week is dedicated to honoring and recognizing educators who play a pivotal role in the lives of children.
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Charles Co. CCPS Student Services to hold Behavioral Health Workshop at May 16 Community Resource event
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) Student Services Community Day will be 3 to 6 p.m., Thursday, May 16, at St. Charles High School.
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Jason Stoddard, Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) director of school safety and security, was recently elected as the inaugural chairperson of the National Council of School Safety Directors (NCSSD). The NCSSD is the first and only organization created to represent, educate and build a national certification and continuing education program for kindergarten through Grade 12 school safety directors.
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Edegran '16 Qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics Chuck Steenburgh April 29, 2024 - 8:47 am
April 29, 2024
Markus Edegran '16 qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the men's kite at the Last Chance Regatta in Hyères, France, April 20-27.
Edegran previously won the U.S. Olympic trials in the event, but the U.S. still had to qualify for an Olympic slot. Edegran earned his ticket to Paris 2024 by a 4th place finish at the Last Chance regatta.
In February, Leo Boucher '23 narrowly missed a...
About one-quarter of 1% of students who take the ACT each year earn a perfect score. In 2022 — the last year for which statistics are available — that was 3,376 students out of 1.34 million who earned a composite score of 36.
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Lisa Landrum-May, an English teacher, has been selected to participate in two National Endowment of Humanities summer institutes. Through the institutes Landrum-May will be able to engage in discussions and gain insights into the study of the humanities.
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Prof. King Receives National Humanities Center Fellowship Gretchen Phillips April 26, 2024 - 9:08 am
April 26, 2024
Julia King, professor of anthropology and the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts, was recently named a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship will allow her to focus on her project, Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia.
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Two Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) advisors, Danielle Carpenter, academic advisor and student government association (SGA) advisor at St. Charles High School and Gary Winsett, history teacher at Thomas Stone High School and Charles County Association of Student Councils (CCASC) advisor recently received Advisor of the Year awards by the Maryland Association of Student Councils (MASC) for their dedication to CCPS students.
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Koontz '25 Wins Two Awards at Sigma Xi Virtual Conference Lorena Torres-… April 25, 2024 - 11:58 am
April 25, 2024
Sophia Koontz '25, a junior biology major, was awarded the best undergraduate oral research presentation and the best interdisciplinary research for environmental challenges in the 2024 Sigma Xi Student Research Showcase. Koontz presented the work she did at SMCM during her 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) under the supervision of Assistant Professor Lorena...
James E. Richmond, a 47-year career retired Charles County Public Schools educator and former longtime Superintendent of Schools, passed away on Wednesday, April 24.
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Murphy and Miranda Tapped for ASBMB National Honor Society Lee Capristo April 24, 2024 - 3:23 pm
April 24, 2024
Biochemistry majors Kyle Murphy ’23 and Gabriela Miranda ’24 were inducted into the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) national honor society while presenting their St. Mary’s Project research at the 2024 ASBMB Annual Meeting on March 23-26 in San Antonio, Texas. Previous inductees from St. Mary's College of Maryland are Ashleigh Bonanno ’21...