John Carroll is hosting its first-ever student-run film festival to showcase and celebrate talent by student filmmakers. The festival will take place on March 26, 2010 in the John Carroll School Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.
Students in high school and college are eligible to submit a film for consideration by the festival judges. The film must be at least 30 seconds and no longer than 20 minutes in length. Objectionable content will not be accepted (keep the rating between G and PG-13!).
Long (10-20 minutes) and short (less than 10 minutes) films will be divided into three categories: comedy, drama, and animation.
All films must be submitted on a DVD along with a completed information sheet. You can download the information sheet HERE.
Mail or hand-deliver your film by March 16, 2010 to:
The John Carroll School
703 E. Churchville Rd.
Bel Air, MD 21014
Remember, submissions must be received by March 16th. All films ...Continue Reading
Six high school seniors were recently selected to serve as student pages for the 2010 Maryland General Assembly, including Rachel Cooper and Alex Hutcheson of C. Milton Wright High School, Brandon Ellis of Joppatowne High School, Kate Kidwell of Fallston High School, and Katherine Clarke and Kate Froelich of John Carroll High School.
Pages were selected after submitting an application and participating in an extensive interview before a 12-person committee, consisting of students and educators from around the county, who tested the applicants on their knowledge of politics and other various topics. The committee was not informed of which school the applicant attends prior to the decision.
A Student Page Breakfast was held December 3, 2009, at Fallston High School, and the newly-elected pages spent the morning getting to know each other and the elected o?cials they will assist during the session. They were a?orded the opportunity to ...Continue Reading
Elizabeth Cartier, seventh grade science teacher at Aberdeen Middle School, recently led her middle school students to a win in the 2009 “Smart Move” Challenge as part of the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Robotics Competition.
FIRST is an acronym for the phrase ‘For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,’ and every year FLL works with experts in the field to develop a challenge that relates to a significant real-world issue. The end result is two-fold and requires research to complete the project, as well as science and engineering to master the complex missions of the robot game. The goal of the 2009 “Smart Move” Challenge was to change the way people view transportation.
Ms. Cartier advised the school’s first-ever robotics team, which won the technical design trophy for the best robot design and presentation at Salisbury Middle School on January 9th. The team qualified to compete ...Continue Reading
Each year, more than 7,000 secondary student musicians from public and private schools in all Maryland subdivisions audition for the Maryland All-State Bands, Orchestras, and Choruses sponsored by the Maryland Music Educators Association. Students take part in a competitive audition and their musical talent is judged by experts in their field. Those selected represent the best among Maryland’s middle and high school student musicians.
For the 2009-10 school year, a total of 50 Harford County Public School student musicians were selected as members of the Maryland All-State Junior Chorus; the Maryland All-State Senior Band, Senior Jazz Band and Senior Orchestra; and the Maryland All-State Senior Women’s Chorus and Senior Mixed Chorus.
For more information on the All-State music requirements and selection process, as well as a calendar of All-State concerts, visit www.mmea-maryland.org.
Maryland All-State Junior Chorus
The following letter was received from Margie Hockenberry, an involved parent of a Havre de Grace Middle School student:
I am writing to express my disgust with a supposed HCPS new lunch policy regarding students whose lunch accounts go into the “negative”.
Apparently, when a middle or high school students lunch account goes into the negative, they can be refused lunch. According to food and nutrition administration at HdGMS [Havre de Grace Middle School] this is a new policy from Harford County’s Food and Nutrition Services and Superintendent. Below is a story a dear friend that brought this to my attention.
My neighbor’s son attends Havre de Grace Middle. He informed his mother that his account was negative by $4 and he needed money. As most of us parents, she is busy. She has a daughter to run to dance, swimming and gymnastics, as well as son involved in sports. You know how ...Continue Reading
The Bel Air High School building rose from the earth sixty years ago and it will be demolished sometime this October. The wreckage has already begun as a glorious new replacement building stands by, ready to welcome students at the start of the new school year. Hallelujah!
As the parent of a Bel Air graduate and a past president of the BAHS PTSA, I know firsthand how the community struggled to cope with the impact of a failing building. And I was one of the many people who fought to have the old building replaced. So I wasn’t planning to shed any tears when the old walls came tumbling down.
But on eve of destruction, I wondered about what happened inside that building over the years. From its state-of-the-art beginnings in 1950, through (and way past) obsolescence, the Bel Air building witnessed the ...Continue Reading
Kate Elizabeth Kidwell, a 16-year-old junior at Fallston High School, was elected as the 22nd Student Representative to the Board of Education of Harford County by the Harford County Regional Association of Student Councils (HCRASC) at the group’s meeting at C. Milton Wright High School on March 18th.
Kate will be shadowing current SROB (Student Representative on the Board), D.J. Sigworth, Jr. for the remainder of his term until she takes over July 1, 2009. She has been attending Board meetings since March and intends on being a regular at the sessions as she prepares to take on the responsibility of being the students’ voice on the Board. The fifth Fallston High senior who will serve as representative for the 40,000 Harford County Public School students, Ms. Kidwell says her goals for the coming year are similar, but different than those who came before her.
The Harford County Sheriff’s Office has filed charges against a 16-year-old boy who allegedly failed to stop the SUV he was driving and hit a 12-year-old student in the parking lot of Patterson Mill Middle/High School in Bel Air on Friday.
The female middle school student was treated and transported to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center for a broken leg, but questions remain regarding the boy and the vehicle he was driving during the accident.
A middle school student was hit by a vehicle at Patterson Mill after high school let out, while the middle school was still in session. She was reportedly lifted on a body board and transported to the hospital.
Students at the school have reported that the vehicle was apparently driven by a 15-year-old, unlicensed high school student, and that it is owned by a custodian at the school.
The middle school student was in gym class at the time of the accident.
A somewhat cryptic Alert Now call went out to parents Friday night from Principal Wayne Thibeault who said:
“This afternoon at approximately 2:35PM a seventh grade student was struck by a motor vehicle on school property. The student was transported to Upper Chesapeake Medial Center in stable condition. The entire matter is being investigated by the Harford County Sheriff’s Department. The school will continue to investigate the situation and appropriate disciplinary ...Continue Reading
No more Honors’ breakfasts? No more pizza parties? No more snacks during Maryland School Assessment tests?
It all depends on the meaning that will be assigned to the following statement, adopted as part of a revised Wellness Policy, by the Harford County Board of Education at their meeting Monday in Bel Air.
l. Schools/staff shall refrain from using food or beverages at any time as either reward or punishment for academic or instructional achievement, performance, effort or activity in any respect or for behavior modification or punishment.
Did you think that the words “shall refrain” meant “shall refrain” and “at any time” meant “at any time”? Ha!
School board counsel Patrick Spicer told the board prior their vote that the public had provided more input on the proposed Wellness Policy than on any other in recent memory, and that questions as to whether pizza parties and the like ...Continue Reading
