Monday, April 29, 2013
Three students in Anne Arundel County won the prestigious national scholarships.
Three students in Anne Arundel County–including two from North County High School–won Gates Millennium scholarships as they prepare for college. Cierra Carter and Fatima Tahir, of North County, and Mekaila Murray, of Old Mill, won the scholarships, which will pay for most of their expenses in college, according to a press release from Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Only two other students from Anne Arundel County have ever won the scholarships, and Maryland totaled 13 of the 1,000 scholarships handed out by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation this year. "This is just another example of the incredible students we have in our school system," Superintendent Kevin Maxwell said in a statement from AACPS. Carter, who is in the AVID …
Friday, April 26, 2013
Glen Burnie High School’s prom is scheduled for May 4, and North County's prom is scheduled for May 25.
A lot goes into having the perfect prom. There’s the dress, with nails, hair and shoes. Plus there is the limo, dinner beforehand, the actual prom ticket and any after-prom activities. All of these activities are adding up and causing the average cost of prom to skyrocket. According to a recent report published on Huffington Post, the average prom cost in 2013 is $1,139, which is a 5 percent increase from last year. Prom for Glen Burnie High School is scheduled for May 4 at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, while the big dance for North County High School is May 25 at the BWI Marriott. But it seems like the spending for the special senior night begins long before the actual dance. According to an article on MSN Money, two of the main …
Monday, April 22, 2013
Luke Andraka and Dana Lunkenheimer will split a $25,000 prize for their entry in the "We Can Change the World" challenge.
Luke Andraka and Dana Lunkenheimer, seniors at North County High School, won second place in the "We Can Change the World" challenge, according to the Siemens Corporation–the competition organizers. The pair will split a $25,000 prize for a project focusing on the negative effects of abandoned "ghost" crab traps, and their three-pronged proposal for getting rid of the traps that cause millions of crabs to die every year. "We attacked the problem on three fronts; public outreach, law policy and reinventing the common crab trap to make it cheaper for water men and safer for animals," the students said in their project description. Their design focused on securing traps using zinc rings, which will dissolve and cause the traps to fall open if…
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Cierra Carter was named a 2013 Dell Scholar by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
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Thursday, April 18
A North County High School student was one of two in Anne Arundel County named 2013 Dell Scholars by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Cierra Carter, a senior at North County, and Jasmyn Mackell, of Annapolis High School, earned $20,000 scholarships each in addition to a laptop computer and printer, according to Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS). Carter is an AVID student and will be the first in her family to attend college, according to AACPS. She is ranked sixth in a class of 440 students and will either attend University of Maryland College Park or Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. She will reportedly study either journalism or intercultural studies. To read more from AACPS, click here. Get local stories delivered right …
Monday, March 25, 2013
William Heiser has been at North County High School since 2010.
The Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals (MASSP) named North County High School's William Heiser the 2013 High School Principal of the Year. According to an AACPS press release, Heiser and Southern Middle Principal Jason Dykstra will now be considered for national honors by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Heiser has 15 years of education experience and served as an assistant principal at Annapolis High School before coming to North County in 2010. In the three years since Heiser came to North County, graduating students went from earning $1.7 million in scholarships to $10.8 million, according to AACPS. Participation in the SAT also increased from 29 percent to 68 percent, and the number of Advanced …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The man who was arrested in North County High School has been released, but must avoid schools and guns.
A district court judge ordered the Glen Burnie man who entered North County High School earlier this month to be free under supervision, according to The Maryland Gazette. Police arrested Justin Matthew Beaumont, 25, on Feb. 4 after he was found to have entered the school during operating hours. School officials said he had no interaction with any of the students. See the original story on Patch here. The school resource officer who made the arrest reported Beaumont had been acting "out of it" when he was found inside the building, and had a bottle of methadone in his possession. This interaction led police to search Beaumont's vehicle and home, and inside his residence they found several legally-owned guns and rounds of ammunition. The …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Police arrested Justin Beaumont in early February after he entered the Glen Burnie school.
Justin Matthew Beaumont, the man accused of trespassing into North County High School earlier this month, was denied bail in favor of continued psychiatric monitoring, according to The Baltimore Sun. Anne Arundel County police arrested Beaumont after he entered the school through a rear door during a school day. Beaumont was not armed and had no interaction with the students, but the incident led to police locating several guns and ammunition in his home. The school resource officer reported that Beaumont was "out of it" and had a bottle of methadone in his possession, reports The Sun. Beaumont is being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center and will be monitored for mental health issues as he awaits a trial, according to the …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The student has taken his talents from the classroom in Glen Burnie to the White House.
Local viewers of President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address on Tuesday night may recognize a face in the crowd, as North County High School student Jack Andraka will be in attendance. Andraka, 16, made a huge splash in 2012 with his invention of a paper-based sensor that can help more accurately and efficiently detect pancreatic cancer—a feat that won him first place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, plus the attention of several patent-seeking companies. He has since been featured in several publications, including Smithsonian Magazine, and was the subject of a short film called You Don't Know Jack by famed documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. First Lady Michelle Obama invited Andraka to the address as a …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Anne Arundel County police say a Glen Burnie man charged with trespassing at North County High School owns several guns and ammunition.
Anne Arundel County police announced Wednesday that a Glen Burnie man who reportedly trespassed into North County High School on Monday is also the legal owner of several guns, ammunition and a silencer. In a letter sent to parents Wednesday, North County Principal William Heiser said no students were in contact or threatened by the intruder. "I want to be emphatically clear that at no time did the man speak to any students and at no time did he make any threats to our school, employees, or our students," Heiser said in the letter. Police charged Justin Matthew Beaumont, 25, with trespassing on posted property. Beaumont attended North County High School for two months in 2002, before transferring, and also served in the National Guard, …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sophomore Jack Andraka's invention of a test to detect pancreatic cancer easier and cheaper is just one of the local kid's latest achievements.
Dressed in a gray hoodie and jeans, Jack Andraka looks like a typical 15-year-old high school sophomore with a Justin Bieber haircut, circa a year ago. But once he starts talking about his science fair project, it becomes clear Jack is no average high schooler. His science project is far beyond the typical baking soda volcano many youths construct. And after winning a pair of prestigious national prizes for that science project this year, Jack drops names of celebrities into conversation with the ease of a budding celebrity he himself is becoming. Oprah called, wanting an interview the day after his sit-down with Patch for possibly her magazine or talk show on her network. Yes, that Oprah. He's met Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton…
Samuel Smith
11:09 pm on Monday, December 24, 2012
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