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Youth notes
A cool Fall Festival
Cool Spring Elementary will host its annual Fall Festival Oct. 25 from 1 to 5 p.m at the school, 501 Tavistock Drive in Leesburg.
There will be carnival games, rides, food, a cake walk, silent auction and a children's garden.
For more information, contact the Cool Spring Parent Teacher Association at coolspringpta@aol.com.
Art portfolio info session
The Art Department of Loudoun County Public Schools will host an art portfolio information session from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the School Board Meeting Room of the LCPS Administrative Offices at 21000 Education Court in Ashburn.
The information session is free to all LCPS art students.
The session focuses on portfolio development and will enable high school sophomores, juniors and seniors enrolled in art courses to professionally assemble portfolios of their artwork. Art portfolios are generally required for art competitions, art scholarships and admission into collegiate art programs.
The 90-minute session will address questions that often arise as students prepare their portfolios.
Students will be admitted on a first-come basis; the room will accommodate 54 participants.
For more information on this session, students should contact their high school art teacher.
Odyssey of the Mind
Would you like to build a structure out of wood that weighs less than a postcard but can hold more than 1,000 pounds?
How about creating a creature that learns or a play about Hercules?
If you are a student, you can. Odyssey of the Mind is a program that allows groups of up to seven students solve one of six different problems.
The groups meet from October to March and perform their solution at a regional competition. If you are interested, contact your school or visit the Odyssey of the Mind Web site at www.odysseyofthemind.com.
Law Enforcement Job Fair
The public is invited to learn about jobs in law enforcement during a job fair Oct. 22, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
The campus is at 6901 Sudley Road, off Route 66 at exit 47 (Route 234 north).
Recruiters from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies will participate.
The Law Enforcement Career Day is sponsored by the Sigma Chi Nu Chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association. For more information, contact 703-257-6503 or rcarter@nvcc.edu.
Broad Run 'Reality Store'
About 340 student at Broad Run High School will participate in the "Reality Store" Oct. 15.
The purpose of the event is to provide students with a taste of reality through a role-playing simulation related to making financial choices.
The students each will be randomly assigned a career and salary. They will then be told they are the head of a household and given a family situation, from no children to two.
Then off they go to experience the real world of making financial decisions and staying within their monthly budget.
First, students have taxes deducted from their monthly salary. Then they visit a bank branch to deposit their money, and then they go shopping to purchase life's necessities.
Various booths cover items like housing, child care, transportation, clothing, utilities, grocery, medical/dental, personal care, entertainment, charitable contributions, communications, credit card and furniture.
After completing the Reality Store, students will participate in a debriefing session conducted by Guy Johnson, financial counseling coordinator with Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Homegrown scholarships
Annie's Homegrown will award $50,000 in scholarships to deserving students nationwide studying sustainable, organic agriculture.
Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 30. The nomination form is available at www.annies.com/sustainable_agriculture_scholarship.
The scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students beginning or returning to an accredited two- or four-year technical or college program or graduate school in the United States for the 2009-2010 school year.
Last year, Annie's awarded 11 graduate and undergraduate students with eight $2,500 and three $10,000 scholarships.
Students must be studying sustainable/organic agriculture.
Final decisions will be made by March 3, 2009, and funds will be dispersed on or around June 15, 2009.
Visit from a senator
On Sept. 24, Sen. Mark Herring (D-eastern Loudoun) spoke to the students and staff of Notre Dame Academy during the school’s weekly assembly period.
After Herring’s presentation, many students asked questions about the role of state government and about issues of interest to teenagers, including a ban on driving with cell phones and changing the state drinking age.
One student asked what his job as a state senator entailed, while another asked how he became a state senator.
Herring also talked about the upcoming presidential election and about voting and its importance.
-- Elizabeth Coe
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