Blake High School Student Wins Prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship - March 2012

James Hubert Blake High School Senior Rhea Wyse has been named a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship, which provides full funding to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the only MCPS student to receive the prestigious scholarship this year. The total value of the scholarship is nearly $100,000 and covers tuition, student fees, housing, meals, books and a laptop, as well as four tailored summer enrichment experiences. Blake High School Principal Christopher Berry said, “Rhea has excelled in her four years at Blake both inside the classroom and out. This scholarship comes as no surprise to her teachers and fellow students, and affirms her hard work on behalf of the Blake community.” The Morehead-Cain was the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. There are currently 230 Morehead-Cain Scholars enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Blake High Students Get Silly for Cancer Research

As part of “Pennies for Patients,” students and faculty hope to raise $10,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Congratulations Trey Cooper

Congratulate Nero "Trey" Cooper on his committment to Towson University next fall. He is the first boys soccer player from Blake to continue their career at NCAA division I school.

Operation Welcome Home

Blake High School students and staff drove to BWI airport to welcome troops home. Many students held signs and banners supporting our troops.

Congratulations to The Blake Beat

The Blake Beat was named “Best in Show” as the top high school newspaper in Maryland Friday at a joint conference hosted by the Towson University Journalism Department and the Maryland District of Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Three hundred student journalists from 22 high school newspapers attended the conference, including Blake Beat editors-in-chief Savannah Doane-Malotte and Kristen Frese.

Additionally, Aron Crews won first in the state in news photography, while an article double-bylined Josh Paunil and Eddie Madden won first in the state for sports reporting.

The Sherwood Warrior was named as the third-ranked newspaper in the state.

Signature Coordinator Peter Daddone, who did not vote in the Best in Show competition, is president of the MDCSPA.

Blake Football Gets It Done In The Clutch

The James H. Blake High School football team has finished the past six seasons with these final records, consecutively since 2005: 1-9, 1-9, 2-8, 2-8, 3-7 and 1-9.
After its 33-30, come-from-behind win Thursday over Thomas S. Wootton in Silver Spring, the Bengals are in unfamiliar territory. They are 4-2 and right in the thick of the 4A North Region playoff hunt.

Spring All-Met Athletes

The Washington Post released its Spring All-Met section today, recognizing the top student-athletes in the Washington Metro area. If you see the following Blake student-athletes, please congratulate them on their achievements:

• Brittany Atkins – 1st Team All-Met, Gymnastics (Only the fifth Bengal to ever be named All-Met)


• Cody Acker – 2nd Team All-Met, Baseball (Also named Preseason All-State by the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches)


• Bridget Hawvermale – Honorable Mention All-Met, Softball (Will play for the University of Maryland next year; 2nd consecutive year being honored by The Post)


• Monika Looney – Honorable Mention All-Met, Gymnastics (2nd consecutive year being honored by The Post)


• Meredith Mathis – Honorable Mention All-Met, Softball (2nd consecutive year being honored by The Post)


• Max Shannon – Honorable Mention All-Met, Baseball (Will play for Salisbury University next year)

Public-private partnership brings classroom to life

A rainbow appeared over Grace Mlingi's head as she spoke May 19 outside the house she helped build in Aspen Hill, which some in the crowd saw as an symbol of two years worth of hard work paying off. Mlingi, of White Oak, spoke to about 100 people about getting a taste of a career in construction management while working with other students from the Thomas Edison High School of Technology on the program's 38th house.

Silver Spring teen defies gravity during weeklong space camp

Sixteen-year-old Bella Barriga, a junior at James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring, took a break last week from her normal hobbies—practicing tennis, browsing Facebook and hanging out with friends—to try on a space suit and see what a career in aerospace engineering might be like.

Montgomery County teachers get advanced training in science lab

Nasrin Saikh, an Advanced Placement biology teacher at James Hubert Blake High School who attended the training, agreed.

"There should be no excuses for a teacher not to do this," she said. "We have the resources."

Silver Spring skater, 15, dreams of competing in Olympics

For Robert, being an Olympic skater is a dream for the future. He said he won't know whether he's good enough for a few years, after several more rounds of regional and national competitions, and after his parents have invested tens of thousands of dollars more in his passion.