The Science Department at Rockville High School is very active, and has a lot
to offer to its students. We pride ourselves in maintaining a high quality
of learning while making science interesting and fun. Although we are currently
the second smallest high school in the county. Science is a big part of our school and there
are very few people that don't enjoy our excellent teachers or
our exciting programs. To view the county's curriculum for science,
please go to: MCPS
County Science Curriculum
Courses Offered at Rockville
Anatomy and Physiology
Biology (Regular, Honors, Pre-IB, IB-SL. IB-HL, AP)
Chemistry (Regular, Honors, Pre-IB, AP)
Environmental Science
Earth Space Systems (Regular & Honors)
Forensics
Horticulture
Matter and Energy (Regular & Honors)
Physics (Regular, Honors, IB-SL, AP)
Our Teachers
Mark Agnew Sean Blake
George Bonney
Carrie Dischiave
Gregg Gochnour
Mary Hamilton
Cindy Hollies
Seth Kenton
GJ Kissal
Donna McDowell
Terri Ravick
Richard Shemer
The Metropolitan
Washington D.C. area is rich with
opportunities for students to learn about and participate in
science. Many students take advantage of the science lectures
given at NIH,
the National Naval Observatory,
the University of Maryland Physics
is Phun demos or the Smithsonian Institute and Carnegie
Mellon lectures.
These and many other student opportunities
for science internships, contests, or other science-related events
can be found at:
Students participate in such socially beneficial
activities as the tutoring of fellow science students, Elementary
Demo project, which sends our High School students into the local
elementary schools to do science lessons and demonstrations.
Students participate in many other events such as the:
Final
Frontiers Competition
Maryland Chemathon
Department
of Defense internships
NIH internships
NASA internships
MCPS Science Inquiry Conferences
Student Academy of Science - Future Doctors and Scientists Club, sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Holiday Lectures Series – sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute(December)