Taking influences from Chinese, Japanese, West African, Spanish, Italian and native cultures, Peru has more dishes than any other country in the world. As a result, it is a difficult endeavor for any restaurant to try and capture the full extent of Peruvian cuisine. Although Super Chicken only offers aContinue Reading
Five Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) students went to Hollywood, California to compete at the LifeSmarts Nationals competition against 32 other schools and won 17th place. “It’s sort of like a game show since there are a lot of buzzing rounds and five categories on consumer knowledge,” team captainContinue Reading
Out of the 30 DECA students who went to Orlando, Florida to compete at the International Career Development Conference (ICDC), eight students placed in the Top Ten. The competition, which took place from April 30 to May 6 “went very well,” senior and DECA Board President senior Jesse Peterson said.Continue Reading
Publicly funded television and radio programing has become a waste of money for our government. What with heading the conflict in Libya and the war we have in the Middle East we can not be wasting money on public programs.
The end of publicly funded television and radio programming could be devastating for Americans. Perhaps that sounds hyperbolic, but it is not. Programs like National Public Radio (NPR), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are not the entertainment-based, liberal subsidies that the conservatives in Congress pretend they are. In fact, they provide vital services to all Americans.
“Expect the unexpected,” IB economics teacher Katherine Peyton said as she and her colleague, theatre teacher Trena Wiess-Null, dined on the culinary arts students’ latest creations.
Walking into the makeshift dining room, Peyton headed toward the dessert table and first sampled a brownie drizzled with homemade chocolate sauce and ice cream, which was topped off with whipped cream.
Senior Andrew Rampy, an academy student from McLean High School, described the creation of desserts as a “canvas for a work of art.”
Elephant Jumps, a Thai restaurant in the Yorktown shopping center across from Luther Jackson Middle School, has been in business for a year. It had gone unnoticed by us until now. The restaurant features a variety of traditional but innovative Thai dishes.
JA in a Day is the first of its kind. Junior Achievement (JA) is a national organization dedicated to teaching elementary schoolers about financial literacy, workplace readiness and entrepreneurship. Marshall’s IB business program, however, is the first to adapt the JA program in such a way that high schoolers can teach it entirely in a day—as opposed to one session a week for six weeks.
“It was a huge deal,” IB Business teacher Rebekah Glasbrenner said.
Coming home from a weekend in North Carolina, the Model United Nations (MUN) team won Best Large School, two gavels and other awards for individual delegates.
These achievements took place at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Conference from April 1 to 3.
Juniors Brian Potter and Karthik Kumarappan won a gavel, the highest award for a delegate, while representing Portugal in the General Assembly Committee.
Junior Bruce Ferguson also won a gavel for representing Yemen in the Interpol Committee.
Between a Special Award from the Society of In-vitro Biology and second place in their category, the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair proved productive for juniors Abby Schneider and Sarah Quattrocki.
The pair, along with another team of Alison Lenert and Mili Mittal, competed on April 2 at Old Dominion University at the state science fair competition. Both teams were grand prize winners at Marshall’s science fair and placed first at the Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair on March 20.
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