Organizational meetings will be held through April and May for the After Prom Celebration, which will take place from 1 – 5 a.m. May 27 at Blair. All parents, staff and students are welcome to attend and help with this year's theme, "Sunny Side Up."
The National Association of College Admissions Counselors will be hosting its National College Fair on Thursday, April 19 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds and Agricultural Center. Over 300 colleges will be present at the fair.
As a culmination of the National Week of Student Action on Darfur, students in the Washington, D.C. area rallied in front of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China on March 30 to seek China's help in protecting the civilians of Darfur, West Sudan. The rally took place from 3 to 5 p.m.
The Blair Players, whose musical "Pirates of Penzance" closed last weekend, will be performing for children in hospice care with the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda.
Blazers took part in the first fire drill since October during 7th period today. The first Code Red drill of the year also took place.
Students Oppose Smoking and Montgomery County Youth Advisory Committee are holding Chalk Out the Smoke, a smoke-free event, today from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at Orange Ball Billiards in Rockville. For $3, or $2 with a canned food, and a Montgomery County public school ID, high school students can play pool, dance, listen to music provided by Hot 99.5 and enjoy a free buffet.
Senior Ross Williams, who lettered in both basketball and football this year, has qualified for the county All-Star Basketball team. Williams, who has been playing on Blair's varsity team since his sophomore year, led the team in scoring and to their first playoff win in ten years this season.
The Montgomery County Council met with area leaders in energy conservation and reform to discuss global warming this past Wednesday, March 14. Headed by Councilmember Roger Berliner, the council discussed current measures the county is taking to fight global warming and what its goals should be for the future.
Blair's After Prom Committee is holding a fundraiser with Jerry's Subs and Pizza in Four Corners tomorrow, March 20. Jerry's manager John Distler will donate 15 percent of the sales made between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. to help with After Prom funding.
Sixteen students participated in the 51st annual Montgomery County Science fair in Gaithersburg this weekend. Senior Victoria Yao, one of Blair's 12 Intel semifinalists, placed first in her category and was a runner-up for the fair's grand prize.
Six Montgomery County schools will begin field tests to pilot lessons that introduce the topic of sexual orientation into 8th and 10th grade health curriculums for the first time. If approved by the Maryland State Board of Education this summer, the lessons will be implemented countywide next fall.
Maryland School Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick suggested a two year delay for the High School Assessment (HSA) requirements for Special Education students and English language learners at a Board of Education meeting March 1. She plans to formalize the delay in August after reviewing data from the next administration of the tests in May.
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Blair will host its second annual Poetry Slam during Blair Fair on April 20 at 7 p.m. in the library. The English department will welcome back poet Carol Peck of the Maryland State Arts Council to conduct poetry workshops for students in the two weeks before competition.
Last night, the Blair Booster Club hosted the winter sports awards ceremony in the Blair auditorium. After a slide show commemorating the past season was displayed, baseball coach John MacDonald introduced the awards ceremony in place of Blair's athletic director, Dale Miller.
The Blair Fine Arts department plans to introduce a new course and re-vamp some of the program's older ones in attempt to improve the department's curriculum classes.
This is not original reporting. All information has been compiled from The Washington Post articles 3rd Body Found in Guatemala Sinkhole and 2 Die in Guatemala City Sinkhole by Juan Carlos Llorca. Silver Chips Online posts this news summary to provide readers with a forum for discussion. For the Spanish version of the article, please click here. An unexpected 330 feet deep sinkhole, which occurred last weekend, caused the death of three family members, the destruction of nearly 12 homes and the relocation of about 1,000 residents of the San Antonio, zone 6 neighborhood in Guatemala.
For many wide-eyed high schoolers, the college search can be an intimidating process. And for a college hopeful, nothing is more beneficial than a first-hand visit to your school of interest. Simply taking a look around won't suffice, however - to get the most out of these valuable visits, you have to know where to go, what to see and what to do. This guide will teach you how to get to know a college campus from the inside out.
Blair junior Will Bucher is one of two final candidates in the countywide Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB) election, which will be held in April. Student delegates from Montgomery County high schools and middle schools selected Bucher and Walter Johnson junior Ben Moskowitz for the SMOB candidacy at the 30th SMOB Nominating Convention this afternoon.
It's that time of the week again. Curled up on the couch, basking in the television's glow, you're ready for the one thing that makes your week worth slogging through: your favorite television program. But then you realize that your show isn't on this week! It's on hiatus! You've been building yourself up all week for nothing! You may as well climb the long, dark stairs to your room and collapse on the floor in a quivering mass of pure, boneless misery. Don't do that. Please.
This is not original reporting. All information has been compiled from the BBC World News and New York Times International News. Silver Chips Online posts this news summary to provide readers with a forum for discussion.
Blair's Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) invited 10 members of the school House of Representatives to a meeting during first period Friday to represent the student body in a discussion of student concerns.
The BNC Semester Shakedown is scheduled for Friday, March 9, from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Blair. A Downcounty mixer, the dance is open to all Montgomery County high school students with school IDs. Students may purchase tickets for $4 starting about a week and a half before the dance outside of the SAC. Tickets will be sold for $8 at the door.
The class of 2011 and all subsequent classes will be required to complete 75 hours of Student Service Learning (SSL) in order to graduate from high school, according to MCPS. The policy has been implemented state-wide, and was established following a request from Dr. Nancy S. Grasmic, State Superintendent of Schools.
Parking permits for second semester will be distributed beginning today. The list of students who have been granted permits will be posted after school outside the financial office.
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