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EDUCATION<br />
January 11, 2008<br />
COLLEGE GOAL SUNDAY ANNOUNCES 2008 PROGRAM<br />
Hosted by the DE-DC-MD Association<br />
of Student Financial<br />
Aid Administrators, Inc. (DE-<br />
DC-MD ASFAA), the seventh annual<br />
College Goal SundaySM will take<br />
place in January and February 2008 at<br />
19 locations across Delaware, Washington,<br />
DC and Maryland (locations<br />
list attached). Snow dates are also<br />
scheduled. Most events will be held<br />
on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2 p.m.<br />
Endorsed by the U.S. Department of<br />
Education, Maryland Higher Education<br />
Commission, Maryland State Department<br />
of Education, DC Public and<br />
Charter Schools, DC State Education<br />
Office and Delaware Department of<br />
Education, College Goal Sunday invites<br />
college bound students to a location<br />
near them to receive free professional<br />
assistance to complete the Free<br />
Application for Federal Student Aid<br />
(FAFSA). Colleges, universities and<br />
private career schools require the<br />
FAFSA form to qualify for federal<br />
grants and loans, as well as most state<br />
and private scholarships.<br />
Students attending College Goal<br />
Sunday need to bring proof of 2007 income<br />
and benefits information, such as<br />
completed or estimated IRS federal income<br />
tax returns and W-2 Forms, or<br />
year-end pay stubs and proof of untaxed<br />
income, for the student and the<br />
parent(s). For more information on<br />
College Goal Sunday in Maryland,<br />
Delaware and Washington, DC, students<br />
and parents can call toll free 866-<br />
GO-2-GOAL or visit www.<br />
GO2GOAL.org. <strong>The</strong>re is no charge<br />
for any of these events.<br />
All college bound students are invited<br />
to attend College Goal Sunday to<br />
receive free help. <strong>The</strong> primary goal of<br />
College Goal Sunday is to make sure<br />
that the first step to financial aid is accurately<br />
completed so that funds can<br />
WATCH<br />
T.C. WILLIAMS<br />
COMPETE ON<br />
IT’S ACADEMIC<br />
Watch It’s Academic at<br />
10:30a.m. this Saturday,<br />
Jan. 12, to see if<br />
T.C. Williams High School students<br />
prevail in a quiz-show competition<br />
with students from two<br />
other area high schools. <strong>The</strong> program,<br />
taped on Nov. 17, will be televised<br />
on NBC TV Channel 4.<br />
T.C. Williams will appear in a<br />
first-round contest with teams from<br />
Charles Herbert Flowers High<br />
School in Springdale, Md., a<br />
Prince George’s <strong>County</strong> public<br />
school; and South <strong>County</strong> Secondary<br />
School in Lorton, a Fairfax<br />
<strong>County</strong> public school. T.C.<br />
Williams team members include<br />
Andrew Wyse, Anil Kenkeremath<br />
and Michael Montiel.<br />
Alternates are Eva Baker and<br />
Tom Lynam. A T.C. Williams<br />
cheerleading squad will perform<br />
during the program.<br />
For more information, contact<br />
Social Studies Department Chair<br />
and It’s Academic Sponsor Hunter<br />
W. Hammond at hunter.<br />
hammond@acps.k12.va.us or<br />
703-824-6800.<br />
be made available to those striving for<br />
a higher education.<br />
Adult learners heading back to<br />
school are welcome. Many locations<br />
offer foreign language translators.<br />
Specific information on translator<br />
availability can be found online<br />
(www.go2goal.org).<br />
“DE-DC-MD ASFAA is proud to<br />
again offer College Goal Sunday to<br />
students of all ages across the region,”<br />
said David Manning, DE-DC-MD<br />
ASFAA member and chairman of the<br />
College Goal Sunday committee.<br />
“College Goal Sunday provides a valuable<br />
free service to anyone seeking financial<br />
aid assistance. Our volunteers’<br />
expertise in the financial aid application<br />
process directly helps more people<br />
gain financial aid making higher education<br />
more accessible.”<br />
Comcast Spotlight is again supporting<br />
College Goal Sunday as a premier<br />
media partner by donating significant<br />
airtime in Maryland, Delaware and<br />
Washington, DC to promote the<br />
events. Radio One will also donate<br />
airtime to promote College Goal Sunday<br />
on their Washington, DC area<br />
radio stations.<br />
College Goal SundaySM, a nonprofit<br />
campaign, is currently sponsored<br />
by USA Funds®, and supported by<br />
grants from Lumina Foundation for Education,<br />
American Student Assistance®<br />
and EdFUND®, all nonprofits with a<br />
particular interest in higher education.<br />
For more information on these organizations,<br />
visit www.usafunds.org,<br />
www.luminafoundation.org, www.<br />
amsa.com or www.edfund.org.<br />
<strong>The</strong> College Goal SundaySM program<br />
was created by the Indiana Student<br />
Financial Aid Association with<br />
funding from Lilly Endowment, Inc.,<br />
and with supplemental support from<br />
Lumina Foundation for Education.<br />
REGISTRATION<br />
OPEN FOR<br />
VISARTS WINTER/<br />
SPRING 2008<br />
CATALOG OF<br />
ART CLASSES<br />
Visarts winter/spring 2008<br />
catalog of art classes is<br />
now online and open for<br />
registration. Classes begin as early<br />
as January14th.<br />
To view the catalog visit www.<br />
VisArtsCenter.org<br />
VisArts is offering over 100<br />
classes and workshops in Glass,<br />
Photography, Digital Arts, Ceramics,<br />
Drawing, Wood, Painting,<br />
Mixed Media, and more!<br />
You can register online for any<br />
of our programs in 3 easy steps!<br />
1. Visit www.VisArtsCenter.org<br />
2. Click on the ‘Online Course<br />
Registration’ button right on the<br />
homepage<br />
3. View course selections and register<br />
online!<br />
For more information or to register<br />
by phone, call the VisArts<br />
office 301-315-8200<br />
VisArts is located in Rockville<br />
at 155 Gibbs Street, Ste. 300,<br />
Rockville, MD 20850.<br />
2008 COLLEGE GOAL<br />
SUNDAY LOCATIONS<br />
Trinity University (Washington,<br />
DC)—Sunday, February 10 at<br />
2:00PM<br />
Montgomery College Takoma<br />
Park/Silver Spring (Montgomery<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, February 10 at<br />
2:00PM<br />
Allegany College of Maryland,<br />
Cumberland Campus (Allegany<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Thursday, February 21 at<br />
6pm, Snow date is Thursday, February<br />
28 at 6pm<br />
Garrett College (McHenry, Garrett<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Thursday, February 7 at<br />
6pm, Snow date is Thursday, February<br />
14 at 6pm<br />
Frostburg State University (Allegany<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, January 27<br />
at 4pm, Snow date is Sunday, February<br />
10 at 4pm<br />
Frederick Community College,<br />
Conference Center (Frederick<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, February 10 at<br />
2:00PM<br />
Anne Arundel Community College<br />
(Arnold, Anne Arundel <strong>County</strong>)—<br />
Sunday, February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
College of Southern Maryland,<br />
LaPlata Campus (Charles <strong>County</strong>)—<br />
Sunday, February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
University of Maryland, Baltimore,<br />
Student Center (Baltimore City)—<br />
Sunday, February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
Baltimore City Community College,<br />
Liberty Campus (Baltimore<br />
City)—Sunday, February 10,<br />
2:00PM<br />
Education Based Latino Outreach<br />
(EBLO) (Baltimore City)—Sunday,<br />
February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
Catonsville Campus of <strong>The</strong> Community<br />
College of Baltimore <strong>County</strong><br />
(CCBC) (Baltimore <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday,<br />
February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
Dundalk Campus of <strong>The</strong> Community<br />
College of Baltimore <strong>County</strong><br />
(CCBC) (Baltimore <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday,<br />
February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
Goucher College (Towson, Baltimore<br />
<strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, February 10<br />
at 2:00PM<br />
<strong>The</strong> H.E.A.T. Center (Aberdeen,<br />
Harford <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, February<br />
10 at 2:00PM<br />
Wor-Wic Community College<br />
(Salisbury, Wicomico <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday,<br />
February 10, 2:00PM<br />
Delaware Technical and Community<br />
College—Christiana Campus<br />
(New Castle <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday, February<br />
10 at 2:00PM<br />
Delaware Technical and Community<br />
College—Terry Campus (Dover,<br />
Kent <strong>County</strong>, DE)—Sunday, February<br />
10 at 2:00PM<br />
Delaware Technical and Community<br />
College—Owens Campus<br />
(Georgetown, Sussex <strong>County</strong>)—Sunday,<br />
February 10 at 2:00PM<br />
Snow date for events on Sunday,<br />
February 10 will be rescheduled for<br />
Sunday, February 17 unless otherwise<br />
noted. Snow dates for events not<br />
on February 10 are listed above.<br />
CHARLES BARRETT WINS<br />
HEALTHY SCHOOL AWARD<br />
For a second straight year, Charles Barrett Elementary School earned<br />
the Healthy School Award from the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM)<br />
and Washington FAMILY Magazine, sponsors of the Healthy Kids Fun<br />
Run held on Oct. 27, 2007.<br />
Washington FAMILY Magazine will present the school with a $500 donation<br />
to its physical education department during a special assembly at<br />
1:15p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the school, 1115 Martha Custis Dr.,<br />
Alexandria. Marines, as well as Miles, the MCM mascot, will be on hand for<br />
the award ceremony.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Healthy School Award is presented to schools with the greatest number<br />
of students participating in the MCM Healthy Kids Fun Run, a one-mile,<br />
un-timed run conducted on the day prior to the MCM. Charles Barrett had 114<br />
students—the most of any school with an enrollment of fewer than 300 students—participate<br />
in the event.<br />
For more information, contact the school at 703-824-6960.<br />
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE’S<br />
“COLLEGE INSTITUTE” PROGRAM AT<br />
WOOTTON HIGH SCHOOL<br />
Seniors at Thomas S. Wootton<br />
High School who are enrolled in<br />
Montgomery College’s “College<br />
Institute” program will soon be able to<br />
take their college courses in the new,<br />
state-of-the-art Camille Kendall Academic<br />
Center at the Universities at<br />
Shady Grove in Rockville. Since 2002,<br />
the institute has provided courses for<br />
college credit, taught by Montgomery<br />
College professors, on site at the Wootton<br />
High School campus.<br />
In 2002, Wootton became the first<br />
high school in Montgomery <strong>County</strong> to<br />
host the College Institute program,<br />
which offers eligible students a chance<br />
to take Montgomery College courses at<br />
the home high school, during the<br />
school day. <strong>The</strong> physical move to USG<br />
will allow the College Institute students<br />
from Wootton —which is just<br />
over a mile away from USG —to take<br />
their classes in a new state-of-the-art<br />
university facility. <strong>The</strong> program will<br />
continue to be run by Montgomery<br />
College. Students in the program will<br />
be able to use the campus library, computer<br />
labs and other facilities, and take<br />
their courses in classrooms fully<br />
equipped with ‘smart classroom” technology.<br />
<strong>The</strong> relocation from Wootton will<br />
also help the high school to free up<br />
some classroom space, in order to alleviate<br />
capacity challenges at the school.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> College Institute continues to<br />
provide a wonderful opportunity for<br />
many of our best prepared students a<br />
chance to get a very successful jump<br />
on their college career,” said Dr.<br />
Michael J. Doran, principal of Wootton<br />
High School. “Our students who participate<br />
are the beneficiaries of an innovative<br />
academic partnership between<br />
Montgomery <strong>County</strong> Public<br />
Schools and Montgomery College, and<br />
now we have the opportunity to bring<br />
in a third great educational partner, in<br />
the Universities at Shady Grove. It’s<br />
great news for the students.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> College Institute program is a<br />
T.C. WILLIAMS PRESENTS ONE-ACT PLAYS<br />
partnership between Montgomery College<br />
and Montgomery <strong>County</strong> Public<br />
Schools that gives students a chance to<br />
earn college credits while remaining<br />
active in their high school community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> opening of the first program at<br />
Wootton in 2002 was followed by a<br />
second College Institute at Gaithersburg<br />
High School in 2003, and two<br />
more at Kennedy and Seneca Valley<br />
High Schools, both of which opened in<br />
2005. Each of these programs will continue<br />
to be operated at the home high<br />
schools.<br />
In total, more than 1,400 students<br />
have taken college courses through the<br />
various College Institute programs in<br />
Montgomery <strong>County</strong> high schools,<br />
since the program was launched originally<br />
at Wootton in 2002.<br />
This fall, 104 students are enrolled<br />
in the College Institute program at<br />
Wootton, taking college courses on<br />
subjects such as psychology, international<br />
relations, statistics, sociology,<br />
and public speaking.<br />
Officials have targeted the move of<br />
the program for the beginning of<br />
Montgomery College’s spring semester,<br />
which starts in January. Students<br />
from Gaithersburg High School, who<br />
participate in the College Institute program<br />
at their home high school, will<br />
also have the option of taking Montgomery<br />
College courses at the Universities<br />
at Shady Grove, along with the<br />
Wootton students.<br />
For more information about the<br />
College Institute programs that serve<br />
the participating high schools in Montgomery<br />
<strong>County</strong>, contact Janet Johnson,<br />
Montgomery College’s high school<br />
programs director, at 240-567-4142<br />
or by email at: janet.johnson@<br />
montgomerycollege.edu. For information<br />
about the institute’s Wootton<br />
program, contact Jane Storck, College<br />
Institute coordinator at Wootton, at<br />
301-279-8550 or by email at:<br />
Jane_S_Storck@mcpsmd.org.<br />
T.C. Williams High School, 3330 King St., Alexandria, will hold its annual Winter One-Act Play Festival at<br />
7:30p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, in the John C. Albohm Auditorium. Tickets are $3 for students<br />
and $5 for adults.<br />
Six Student Directors—Issa Abernathy-Minus, Lindsay Adler, Shoaib Ahmad, Andrew Flack, Cristina Mcdonell and<br />
Jessica Washington—will direct five one-act plays on both nights. <strong>The</strong> Student Directors and their actors will compete<br />
against each other to see who wins the festival. <strong>The</strong> winner will represent T.C. Williams at the Patriot District One-Act<br />
Play Festival on Monday, Jan. 28, at Lake Braddock Secondary School, 9200 Burke Lake Road, Burke.<br />
For more information, contact T.C. Williams at 703-824-6800.<br />
16 THE METRO HERALD
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