MLWGS PTSA Back-to-School Night
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Join the MLWGS PTSA for Back-to-School Night on September 11, 2014, at 6:30pm. Be sure to arrive early. Program details and overflow parking information can be found HERE.
Academic Boosters Seeks Parent Reps and Volunteers
The Academic Teams Boosters Club is recruiting parent reps and volunteers for the various academic teams it supports. A passion for the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School and its students is the only requirement. The Academic Teams Boosters Club supports the broad range of activities of the MLWGS Academic Teams by providing the teams with monetary and volunteer support to attend programs and competitions near and far at local, state, national, and international levels. MLWGS Academic Teams include- Academic Quiz Bowl (BoB Squad),
- Academic WorldQuest,
- Chess,
- Debate,
- Forensics,
- Future Problem Solvers,
- History Bowl,
- LifeSmarts,
- Model Congress,
- Model UN,
- Robotics, and the
- Technology Student Association.
Parents interested in participating and volunteering should contact Bill Benos at bbenos@williamsmullen.com.
Proposed Fall Meeting Schedule:
- Thursday, September 11, 2014 – 5:30 PM (Before Back-to-School Night)
- Monday, October 6, 2014 – 6:00 PM (Before the PTSA Meeting which starts at 7:00 PM)
- Monday, November 17, 2014 – 6:00 PM (Before the PTSA Meeting which starts at7:00 PM)
- Monday, December 8, 2014 – 4:00 PM (Before the Foundation Meeting which starts at 5:00 PM) (Tentative)
MLWGS Music Boosters Meeting – September 10TH
Please contact Leslie Hausser, MLWGS Music Boosters President at lahmeems@comcast.net with any questions.
Green means Go! To the Dragon's Lair
Follow the crowds to the Dragon's Lair every Tuesday and Friday during lunch, and before/during/after Back to School night on Thursday, September 11, this week. Browse 24/7 at mlwgsdragons.weebly.com; greenbacks and checks gladly accepted at the store.
Varkey GEMS Foundation Global Teacher Award
The Varkey GEMS Foundation launched the Global Teacher Prize to celebrate the best teachers around the world, those who inspire their students and the communities around them. The Global Teacher Award seeks to do for education what the Nobel Prize has done for science, literature, and peace. The focus is to uplift the valuable contributions that teachers make every day to establish a flourishing global society. Click HERE to nominate a MLWGS teacher today.
“Running for Katie”
Two MLWGS Students participate in 2014 VCU Medical Science Internship Program
Two MLWGS students, Aman Kapadia (Chesterfield,’15) and Purnima Ghosh (Henrico, ’15) were accepted into the selective VCU Medical Science Internship Program (MSIP). VCU MSIP, a six-week summer program (June 23 through August 1), provides high-school students the opportunity to work in a research lab at VCU with a scientist. Students have a chance to shadow doctors including neurosurgeons, orthopoedic surgeons, and pediatricians in the MCV hospital.
Kapadia worked with Shobha Ghosh, PhD, assisting with her project "Diet versus de novo synthesized cholesterol - Role in development of cardiovascular disease." Ghosh worked with Ramesh Natarajan, PhD, on his "The role of Vitamin C supplementation on wound healing."
