Denise Thompson, a social studies teacher at Liberty High School, has been named one of three recipients nationwide of C-SPAN's 2012 Teacher Fellowship Program. The C-SPAN Education Foundation offers the highly selective program to teachers who demonstrate creative use of C-SPAN programming in their teaching. Read More >>
Book Madness arrived in full force in the Kettle Run High School library this spring. Library staff Kim Ritter, Alice Pleasants and Tammy McGilvery selected and paired 32 of Booklist's Best Books for Young Adults that were published in 2012 - in much the same fashion as the NCAA college basketball tournament. Student participants read two books, selected the best book of the two, and that book moved onto the next round. Read More >>
Fauquier High School automotive students Justin Cleveland and Alexandra Wolfe finished second in the state in the 2012 Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition held Saturday, May 5, at the Richmond Aviation Museum. The two just missed representing Virginia at the National Finals in June in Dearborn, MI; their score in the state competition matched first-place winner C.D. Hylton High School's score, but the Hylton students completed the hands-on challenge just minutes before the FHS team. Read More >>
Tech Ed State Winners
Seven technology students in the Technology Student Association at Kettle Run High School outshone all competitors in two different categories at the state Technosphere conference May 4-6 at the Richmond Convention Center. Earning first-place awards in the state competition were Carlos Banda Montes, Ben Brice, Duncan Belfour and Grace Radigan in the music production category and Amanda Hoelscher, Adam Ryan and Ethan Angle in the scientific and technical visualization, or SciVis, category. They are now eligible to participate at the National TSA Conference in Nashville, TN, from June 21-25. Read More >>
Somehow it simply wasn't there - that awkward silence that sometimes hangs heavily in the air when middle school students meet for the first time. So often when adolescence and the coolness factor collide, conversation struggles for a footing. Tell that to the more than 100 Carol Morgan School and Auburn Middle School students who met for the first time in the cafeteria at AMS on Friday, April 27. Conversation flowed freely as 68 students from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic met and worked with 48 eighth-graders from Auburn Middle when the two sister schools met face to face for the first time. Read More >>
When Coleman Elementary School student-members of the Student Council Organization put their heads together to figure out a way to give back to the community, they came up with a slam dunk of an idea. The SCO organized a basketball tournament, held at Marshall Middle School on Friday, April 27, to raise money for Relay for Life, the signature fund raiser of the American Cancer Society. Read More >>
On Thursday, April 26 approximately 160 juniors and seniors from Liberty High School participated in Career Shadowing Day, an opportunity for students to spend a day with employers to get hands-on experiences in the real world. Read More >>
Auburn Middle School students and staff shared their talents on Friday, April 27, when the National Junior Honor Society produced the school's Sixth Annual Variety Show in support of Fauquier Family Shelter Services, Inc. Read More >>
Four Kettle Run High School journalism students went to Greenville Elementary School April 12 to talk to Girl Scouts who were interested in writing careers. Juniors Taylor Holmes and Lizzie Mackercher and freshmen Caroline Silas and Allie Zaleski talked to the girls about the importance of getting both sides of a story. Read More >>
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 247 President Gloria Alleman along with auxiliary members Alice Brady and Mary Ellen Moore visited Pierce Elementary School April 16 to recognize fifth-grade student Payton O'Hara for winning the auxiliary unit's Americanism essay contest. Read More >>