Forum on Latino Youths
The Task Force on Mentoring of Montgomery County Inc. will hold a forum Wednesday on mentoring Latino children and youths.
The session begins at 10:30 a.m. at the County Council Building, 100 Maryland Ave. in Rockville. Keynote speakers will be Teresa Wright of the Montgomery County public schools and Candace Kattar, executive director of Identity Inc., which works with Latino youths, many of them recent immigrants, to help them understand and adjust to American culture.
For more information, call 240-777-7816.
Science Team Victorious
Last month a team from Robert Frost Middle School won first place in the Virginia/Maryland Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The team will compete in June in the national competition in Colorado. The bowl includes two parts -- an academic competition and a fuel-cell car competition.
The five team members are seventh-graders Zohair Asmail, Krzysztof Franaszek, Christian Haudenschild, Sherwin Heydarbeygi and Jacob Hurwitz. Their advisers are parent Clara Asmail and Martin Pratt, a physics teacher at Wootton High School.
In addition to individual medallions and a team trophy, the team received $750 for the school.
Student Board Finalists
Two finalists for student member of the Board of Education were chosen March 15 by 279 voting middle and high school delegates who attended the Student Member of the Board of Education Nominating Convention.
Sebastian Johnson, a junior at Montgomery Blair High School, and Nadia Sicard, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School, were selected last week as finalists for student member of the Board of Education.
They were chosen from seven candidates. All secondary students will have a chance to vote for one of the two candidates April 27.
Rockville Scholarships
The Rockville Scholarship Foundation is accepting applications for its 2005 scholarship program for city students.
Applicants must attend either Rockville, Richard Montgomery or Wootton high schools, be a student at the Rockville campus at Montgomery College, a child of a member of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce or the child of a city employee. Three to five scholarships are awards annually.
The deadline for applications is May 1. For more information, call 301-424-9300 or visit www.rockvillechamber.org.
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