Some recent accomplishments by the great students and staff
at Rockville High School:
RHS Music Department Named GRAMMY Finalist!
The Rockville High School Music Department has been named a finalist for the 2010 GRAMMY Signature Schools program. Rockville is one of 140 finalists nationwide, four within the state of Maryland, and the only school in Montgomery County.
The GRAMMY Signature Schools program, sponsored by the Gibson Foundation, recognizes and awards public high school music programs each year. Each GRAMMY Signature School receives a monetary grant from $1000 to $10,000 to benefit their music program. In an effort to increase local recognition of these excellent music programs and the importance of continuing music education in schools, the GRAMMY Foundation secures professional musicians to participate at GRAMMY Signature presentation events. Guest artists have included Yolanda Adams, Dave Chapelle, Bob Seger, Josh Kelley, Randy Travis, Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child, No Doubt, Michael McDonald, Ray Benson, Shawn Colvin, Billy Corgan, Gavin DeGraw, Edwin McCain, Brian McKnight, Lisa Marie Presley, Chuck Rainey, Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish, Juan Winans and Carvin Winans, Jr.
A blue-ribbon panel of judges, made up of top music educators and industry professionals, will narrow the list of finalists down to 20-25 schools to be designated as GRAMMY Signature Schools. Schools warranting consideration have to submit a detailed application outlining what their music department offers the student population, as well as support the music department receives from administration, parents and the community. Finalists must also submit recordings of various school ensembles to be heard and judged by the panel.
The 2010 GRAMMY Signature Schools will be announced in March.
Nov. 16, 2009
Outstanding Performance by Rampage Staff Members
Rampage staff members dominated the Journalism Education Association’s Write-Off competition held Friday night in Washington DC. Nearly 2,300 students from around the country competed in the competition. There were over 30 categories in the competition.
Receiving Superior rating (equivalent of first place)
Kaitlin Clifford in the editorial writing category
Receiving Excellent rating (equivalent of second place)
Adrienne Lane, News writing,
Elizabeth Preza Commentary writing
Receiving Honorable Mention (equivalent of third place)
Samantha Cooney, Feature Writing
Brittaney Sloan Caption writing and Student Life
If you see these students, congratulate them on a job well done. This competition is EXTREMELY difficult and very competitive!
The competition is run in a room with other news writers, other commentary writers, etc. So, say Adrienne Lane is in a room with 200 other kids from around the nation. They listen to a news release, they have people there that are interviewed, and then they have an hour and a half to write their story and turn it in to the judges.
Nov. 16, 2009
Pipe Band to Perform with Grammy Award Winners
Two Time Grammy Award winning duo, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer will hold their 24th Annual Winter Family Concert On December 5th at 1pm, and will feature the Rockville High School Pipe Band and acclaimed Scottish Fiddler Bonnie Rideout. The concert will be held at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Art Center, Montgomery College, Georgia Ave and East West Hwy, Silver Spring.
RHS Writing Center Announces BEST WRITERS of the QUARTER!
The Rockville High School Writing Center is doing something new this year. We are selecting two “writers of the quarter” each marking period who have done an exemplary job on a common task writing assignment. The student writers will receive a certificate from the Writing Center acknowledging their skill and effort. In addition, their papers will go into an “exemplar bank” that our teachers can use as models when introducing common task writing assignments. We are hoping that this new initiative will help students learn from real examples of student writing and will reward the efforts of students that may go otherwise unrecognized.
The winners this quarter are George Gomez and Aaron Kasinitz.
Nov. 5, 2009
Student Wins big Scholarship!
Congratulations to Robel Yared who won the 2009 $10,000 Nordstrom Scholarship!
Oct. 26, 2009
Marching Band Wins Fourth Place!
Congratulations to our Marching Band who won 4th place at the USSBA Mid-Atlantic Regionals at Towson University.
Oct. 26, 2009
It's Academic Team Wins!
Congratulations to our Its’ Academic Team who won the NBC It's Academic first round match against Kennedy and R.E. Lee High Schools. Team members were Greg Rind, Raheel Awan and Tyler Babich.
Their winning score of 615 was higher than the combined scores of the other two schools. The show will be seen on NBC December 19th at 11:00 AM.
Oct. 26, 2009
The following students have been admitted to
the Robert Joyce Chapter
of the
National Honor Society
at Rockville High School
in the fall of 2009.
Asena Acar
Kelly Andersen
Chris Brown
Cristina Camacho
Alexander Choque
Valerie Cole
Michelle Domingo
Amy Flores
Jasmin Herrera
Zoe Hill
Raymond Ng
Jurgen Qesari
Katerina Qesari
Darius Quach
Linda Quach
Kelly Reeder
Barbara Silupu
Joel Slaff
Brittaney Sloan
Lizzy Smith
Anarita Sousa
Teresa Traficante
Michael Vlahakis
Erica Wang
Elicia Woehrman
Danny Wolf
Congratulations!
Oct. 22, 2009
Contgratulations to our AP Scholars
AP Scholars with Distinction
Eric Alexander
Tyler Babich
Amanda Dols
Peter English
Cameron Garvie
Nyamagaga Gondwe
Malik Kadir
David Kuiper
Emily Ma
Steffani Ma
Parisa Moghaddam-Taaheri
Andrew Morris
Kyle Murphy
Darius Quach
Linda Quach
Paul Rosiak
Carl Rubbo
Samantha Rushing
David Schanker
Alexander Smith
Sara Sousa
Brian Sperling
Rachel Wagner
William Waite
Jamayca Williams
AP Scholars with Honor
Amy Broadbent
Jonathan Cothran
Nicholas Darrell
Juan Herrera
Griffin Kean
Paul Kitsoulis
Larisa Trach
Andrew Zecha
AP Scholars
Andrew Banks
Lucie Blauvelt
Marielle Briones
Katherine Broadhurst
Brian Cadigan
Jennifer Cossette
Kevin Garcia
Mary Ghitelman
Amanda Gonzalez
Marshall Hamilton
Steven Hollies
Shelley Huynh
Polly Ingram
Nimai Joshi
Pamela Katz
Robert Kirker
Michael Kotarski
Austin Kuipers
Trenae Mack
Darryle Nditafon
Edmond Ng
Steven Ngo
Dan Nguyen
Kevin O’Brien
Andrea Petruccelli
Elizabeth Preza
Gabrielle Robinson-Tillen
Caitlin Rochon
Lillian Rosen
Eliot Rudnick-Cohen
Emma Rutter
Eric Sachs
Luis Sagastume
Joel Slaff
Shyiesha Smith
Nicholas Stephens
Hope Wahlbrink
Benjamin Waite
Theresa Wambach
Elicia Woehrman
In 2009 RHS had 41 AP Scholars, 9 AP Scholars with Honor and 25 AP Scholars with Distinction. The total of AP Scholars of all three types (74) was four more than the previous year. But most significant is that double the number of students earned AP Scholars with Distinction (24 vs. 12) status!
AP Scholar: Scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.
AP Scholar with Honor: Average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
AP Scholar with Distinction: Average score of 3.5 on all AP Exams and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
Oct. 8, 2009
Congratulations to our National Merit Scholarship Commended Scholars:
Richard Batzler
Amy Broadbent
Douglas Chalmers
Valerie Cole
Adrienne Lane
Gabriela Perla
Madeline Ramey
Gregory Rind
Eliot Rudnick-Cohen
Caitlin Sperling
Erin Strosnider
Hope Wahlbrink
Congratulations to our National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist
Steven Hollies
Oct. 1, 2009
Number of AP Scholars Exceed Last Year's Total
In 2009 RHS had 41 AP Scholars, 9 AP Scholars with Honor and 25 AP Scholars with Distinction. The total of AP Scholars of all three types (74) was four more than the previous year. But most significant is that double the number of students earned AP Scholars with Distinction (24 vs. 12) status!
AP Scholar: Scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.
AP Scholar with Honor: Average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
AP Scholar with Distinction: Average score of 3.5 on all AP Exams and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
Sept. 25, 2009
Student wins Design Contest
Christina Chang (Grade 12) won the Candle in the Window design contest in July.
