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DID YOU KNOW? The National Technical Honor Society serves over 80,000 student members annually. In 2015, NTHS awarded over $200,000 in scholarships to career and technical education students. NTHS honors the achievements of top CTE students, provides scholarships to encourage the pursuit of higher education, and cultivates excellence in today’s highly competitive, skilled workforce. Our very own LEAD (Leadership, Engagement…

Dear ARL Parents & Students, Teaching Excellence and Student Rigor continue to thrive at the ARL. During the past few weeks, I visited several more of our Academies where students were highly engaged in some awesome learning experiences. This week the Homeland Security Academy students heard from Mr. Thomas McNeal, Deputy Director, Howard County Office of Emergency Management, about the…

Presidential elections are a time when emotions run high. We are a country of people with strong individual beliefs. This year even more than in previous elections, the events of the months leading up to Tuesday’s election have led to strong emotions from people across the political spectrum. Emotions are real and important. We all need to keep in mind…

Members of the Skills USA chapter spend an afternoon baking jumbo cookies for the Cookies for Competition Fundraiser.

HRMA 2 students show off their Garde Manger with a fall theme!!

Your teachers competed in a pumpkin carving contest on Halloween. Take a look and LIKE the Jack-O-Lantern you think is the best!

Congratulations to Daniel Li for being accepted into the ASPIRE program at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab! Daniel previously interned at the APL in the summer of 2016 and will continue his cyber internship until March of 2017.

Ryan Willis, a Senior at Centennial High School, is enrolled in his second year of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Career Academy at the Applications and Research Laboratory (ARL) taught by Mr. William Pratesi. At the ARL, the class learns about GIS (Geographic Information System), which is capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface…

About half of our EMT Academy were able to attend the first annual ceremony recognizing Fire, EMS and Rescue personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty. They also recognized those who were active members who passed away for unrelated reasons.

Dear ARL Parents & Students, After continuing my visitations to several of the ARL Academies during the past two weeks, I wanted to share several amazing experiences in which our students were engaged. Students in one of the Allied Health Academy classes had an opportunity to watch a video and learn about Abby and Brittany Lee Hensel, conjoined-teenage twins, dealing…