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According to information from Anne Arundel County Public Schools spokesman Bob Mosier, it looks like South River High School has a little bit of bragging to do. Senior Alexandra Bartlett was named by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation as a National Merit Scholar. Bartlett was chosen from a group of 15,000 students across the country [...]

  The Center of Applied Technology (CAT) South, one of two technical education schools in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS), was given a “Five Year Sponsor” award from Anne Arundel Medical Center‘s Blood Donor Center. CAT-South was one of the first sponsors to host blood drives when AAMC began their Mobile Blood Program [...]

Tracey’s Elementary School hosted their first-ever STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) night last Thursday. There were hands-on stations for the kids to learn and get excited about these subjects. It was a unique opportunity for parents and children to be in the school learning, side-by-side. Experts say that one of the keys to academic [...]

Gov. Martin O’Malley signed “Graces Law” on Thursday, providing victims of cyberbullying legal avenues to stop online bullying. The law is named for Grace McComas, who was just 15 when she committed suicide after being bullied and harassed online. That was in April of 2012.  Her family  set up a memorial Facebook page where you [...]

Two local students recently got an extra bit of help for their college expenses, courtesy of the Muddy Creek Artists Guild. The announcement was made at last Thursday’s ArtQuest event at Southern High School in Harwood. Meet the four students at this weekend’s Muddy Creek Artist Guild show in Galesville. The winners of the $1,000 [...]

On Monday, Deb Consugar, the Upper School math chair at the Summit School in Edgewater, was honored at the Education in Excellence banquet and named 2013 private school Teacher of the Year. At the ceremony, Consugar choked back tears as she thanked her family, her students and her colleagues. The Annapolis and Anne Arundel County [...]