Parkland News

50 Parkland students To Receive the Superintendents Award for Student Service Learning (SSL) Hours!

Click here to view list of these students. These 50 young people have really worked hard to earn their hours, and by earning this award they have also satisfied their high school graduation requirement for SSL hours. Congraulations!

Parkland Students Win Big in 2009 International Science Fair Montgomery.

from Ms. Janney... I am so proud of all of the students who participated in this year's international Science Fair Montgomery! This was a lot of work and the competition was up from year's past. In spite of that, Parkland students did incredibly well! We won 1st place for the whole fair- Junior division- in Mathematics, took second place for the whole fair- junior Division- in both physics and biology, took third place in the whole far- Junior division- for physics, and third place for the whole fair- junior division- for engineering! We also won lots of other prizes as well. Many of these students walked away with $100. checks as well as medallions and other cool things! Here is the whole list of prize winners!

Anastasia Laurenzo & Christine Junod: 1st place, Jr. Division, Mathematics
Eli Griff-McMahon: 2nd place, Jr. Division, Biology
Jonathan Fink: 2nd place, Jr. Division, Physics
Vasily Baffes & Daniel Rivers: 3rd place, Jr. Division, Physics
Ben Strouse: 3rd place, American Nuclear Society, Washington DC Section and 3rd place, Jr. Division, Engineering
Phillip Christman: Honorable Mention, Jr. Division, Biochemistry
Elizabeth Meier: National Capital Astronomer and Honorable Mention, Jr. Division, Earth & Space Science
Nathan Schilling: Honorable Mention, Jr. Division, Physics
Neel Lahiri: Optical Society of America - National Capital Section
Devin Luce: United States Public Health

Also, Congratulations! William Chafin won in the category of junior individual exhibit at the Montgomery County History Day competition.

Students, Ms. Blaney Visit White House, Chat with Astronauts!

WASHINGTON - It was not a typical day for five 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology in Rockville: they didn't have to go to morning classes, they talked to astronauts aboard the International Space Station -- and they did so while hanging out with President Obama.

"It was amazing and exciting, it was, like, cool because you got to meet the president!" exclaimed Tenay Graham, a 6th grader. Click here to read more, and watch the Channel 7 video.