Important News

A meal cooked for a good cause

As part of the ARL Wellness Spring Triathlon of Community Service, staff and students came together to donate food and to cook a meal for 50 people (Tamale Pie, salad, brownies) donated Thursday March 30th to Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center.

Change Matters: "I made a change <3"

Edwin Alfaro, Chapter President of Skills USA is continuing the effort of raising money for Grassroots of Howard County. Students are encouraged to participate by raising money for an amazing cause. There will be jars in every classroom on Friday of this week and there will be wristbands with our motto available to all students who donate. This donation challenge…

Aerospace Student Gets Summer Internship at NASA

Sydnee Ruley, an Aerospace I student, was select for an internship at NASA this summer work with CubeSats this summer. CubeSats are miniaturized satellites used for space research. These satellites are really small only 10 cm×10 cm×11.35 cm. The cool thing about these small satellites are made from commercially available electronic parts. Sydnee is going to learn a lot this…

Staff Milestones

Congratulations to the following staff members for being recognized for their years of service with HCPSS!! 35 Years Karl Schindler 25 Years Alyson Donoghue 20 Years Mary Anderson Jen Walker Ron McNeil Wendell McMiller 15 Years Maddy Halbach

HoCo Hackathon

If you're interested in computer science, come to the third annual HoCo Hacks Hackathon! High school students from around the county will gain programming experience by spending the day coding a project that fits the theme presented at the event. The hackathon includes a presentation by guest speaker Dr. Singh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. Students may…

Academy of Finance Book Review Podcast

Students created a financial, leadership, and marketing book review podcast. Take a listen to the first episode recorded in November 2016! P.S. the music is also student produced. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2DBAx_7RbVsZVh2bkRSNVk3SzQ/view?usp=sharing

Accessing digital resources

Just a reminder that accessing digital resources of the ARL is quick and easy. Simply visit www.mackinvia.com and select our school. Use your active directory username and our easy to remember password that was provided by Mr. Burchett earlier in the year. Remember, you have to go to www.mackinvia.com to access our resources, using hcpss.me will connect you to your…

HRMA I AM Class making cookies

Baking cookies Wed & Thurs Dec 21 & 22 and then they will be donating the cookies to Grassroots. A representative from Grassroots will come to the ARL to pick up the cookies at 1pm on Thursday Dec 22nd.