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The ARL Visual Communications Academy’s Advanced Animation and Advanced Graphic Design students recently went on a field trip to the Hirshhorn Museum and National Museum of History History in Washington D.C. to explore professional applications of animation, graphic design and photography.

Congratulations to Ryan Kang for creating the winning Revive Physical Therapy brochure re-design. A special thanks to Akhil Jain from Revive Physical Therapy for providing the Graphic Design I class with this design opportunity.

Congratulations to all of our students who competed in the Skills USA competition! They all put in a ton of work and represented themselves and our school very well. Here is who won medals at Skills USA Saturday and their advisors: Gold Medal in Health Knowledge Bowl (Jeff Fisher) Anthony Okeh Meghan Counts Preeya Subedi Adeola Abdulkadir Gold Medal in…

Biotechnology Academy students Felice Henriquez and Tara Bellido de Luna won first place and Cheyenne Palm won second place in the Mentored category of the Howard County STEM fair for the science experiments conducted as part of their capstone project.

The Academy of Finance won the State Personal Finance Challenge. Team member Johnathan Taylor, Brooke Rankin, Austin Adamczyk, and Matthew Poltorak will compete at nationals in Kansas City, MO on May 6th.

Have you read about our community partnership with Patterson High School? If not, here's a wonderful report from our school system Superintendent, Dr. Renee Foose regarding our #EconomicTrailblazers READ ABOUT them here, https://superintendent.hcpss.org/2016/04/hcpss-and-patterson-students-contribute-to-change-in-baltimore/

The latest blog post from Howard High School showcases the point of view of one of our own, Daniel Adegbesan. We're so proud to have him as part of our programs and that he has shared the joy of being a part of the Academy of Finance with so many others. Read the blog here, https://thelionsofhoward.com/2016/04/06/developing-my-passion/

What a great event for our young people to be able to experience. With presentations ranging from network protection to how to leverage Linkedin for your professional practices, the students were able to gain insight on a variety of business principled topics. There were even a few HCPSS alumni presenting including, Thomas Lah (WLHS), Jason Peay (RHHS), and Cheria Bloome…

Mr. Pratesi's students were able to attend a field trip to the Howard County Public Safety Training Facility. The event was wonderful and the students were able to see and interact with professionals through a number of different scenarios, both live and automated. It was also a great experience to see the future police officers finishing their training with some…

The following Academy of Finance Students from the Applications and Research Laboratory placed in the nations top 10 for High School students in the Investwrite Essay Competition. 5th Place National Finalist: Ayo Adelaja and 8th Place National Finalist: Benjamin Yost. Students competed with over 2000 other applicants. The competition requires students to write a 1000 word essay on a preassigned…