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Howard University Elects Its First Transgender Student Body President
A political science major and rising senior, Jay Jones is the newly elected Student Association President for 2024-2025 — and the first transgender woman to hold that role — at historically Black Howard University. She is currently interning for the Chase Bank Leadership Development Program on the Learning, Training, and Reinforcement Team.
North Point student sworn in as new student member of Charles school board
The Charles County Board of Education swore in Samarjeet “Sam” Virk, a rising senior at North Point High School, to be the student member of the board for the next school year. Virk, who was sworn in at the board’s June 17 work session, was elected in May by Charles County students in sixth through 12th grade. The election was held from April 15 through May 17 and 2,408 votes were cast. He secured 63% of the vote, representing 1,513 ballots. ...
Arlington youth honored for success in braille competition
Luise Schmidt-Eisenlohr, the daughter of Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr and Friederike Niepmann of Arlington and a student at Arlington Science Focus School, came away victorious in her category in the 2024 Braille Challenge, sponsored by the Braille Institute and held June 23 in Los Angeles. Braille Challenge is the only academic competition...
High Schoolers Help Create Inexpensive Water-Monitoring Buoys on St. Marys River
The newest technology in Chesapeake Bay water quality monitoring is here, and high school students are partly responsible for creating it—at a fraction of the cost of typical water quality monitors. Southern Maryland students and their teacher have been building and deploying automated buoys called Bay Observation Boxes (BOBs)....
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