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1st Prince George's Student on State Board
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In the final round, they answered questions about what stomata are (the pores on a plant) and what presbyosmia is (a loss of the sense of smell). At the end of the first round, James McHenry led, 85 to 80.
They took a break, where Clay explained his wish to go to Mars "to prove aliens are not out to kill us," and Arin chimed in, "On Clay's next trip to Mars, I call shotgun!"
In the second half, Glenarden Woods started to pull ahead as Hilda, an aspiring pediatric neurosurgeon, answered a question right about eupepsia, which is good digestion. (The students weren't all perfect: Charles Darwin's famous voyage was on the HMS Beagle, not the Yorkshire.) Glenarden Woods triumphed in the end, winning 225 to 160.
"I will never forget this moment," Arin said. Hilda, on the other hand, said that amid all the excitement she couldn't remember a single question she had answered.
"I don't even remember being there," she said.
Scholar of Week
Ashley Proctor, a senior at Potomac High School, is the Prince George's County Scholar of the Week.
Proctor has a 3.8 grade-point average and wants to pursue degrees in psychology and criminal justice when she goes to college. She's gotten her start by taking Advanced Placement classes in psychology, literature and physics.
Outside the classroom, she worked as a page for the Maryland General Assembly, tutored her peers and served as president of her school's branch of the National Honor Society.
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