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every day for this device,” she said. “We worked during school and we worked after school.” Her team visited the Scott Key Center multiple times to talk with workers with disabilities about what they needed most. “We feel like we really made some new friends,” she said. Chang’s team is one of three from Poolesville High selected as finalists in the competition; all together, there are only five finalists. The Poolesville students’ teacher, Kevin Lee, has helped them enter the contest the past three years. “We’re just so excited,” he said. “It’s a great experience I wish more kids could be involved in.” The other Poolesville teams’ entries are a die cast guide to help visually impaired workers manufacture buffer pads; and the Nexus, to help workers produce O-rings more efficiently. Submissions to the challenge must create greater access to employment for people with disabilities. To ensure that these devices meet their needs, they must be developed in collaboration with a person with a disability.
Poolesville High School is hoping for another win at a national competition for devices that help people with disabilities work. Last year, students at the school submitted 18 entries to the AbilityOne Design Challenge, and won first place with a cone device that helps workers stuff copies of The Gazette in plastic sleeves. This year, Poolesville High student Rachel Chang said they’re building on a concept that won a Poolesville team second place in 2013. With the help of developmentally disabled workers at the Scott Key Center in Frederick, Chang and three other students built a sealing device that peels and places a clear label on top of a tea bag box. The previous year’s invention helped workers get the correct number of tea bags in each box. The AbilityOne challenge, organized by the nonprofit Institute for Economic Empowerment, requires students to build a functioning prototype of their device. High school teams must research, design and submit a discussion paper and video presentation featuring their device. Chang and her team are working on making multiple identical prototypes to show the AbilityOne contest judges during the competition Thursday and Friday in Washington, D.C. “My peers and I, we worked
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Poolesville High School juniors (from left) Asma Azam, 17, and Meera Aris-
Cross Country Coaches Association for her achievements with the Millersville Marauders at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. All-Academic athletes must earn a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.25 while placing in the top 30 percent at the regional championship.
Damascus High presents ‘Hello Dolly’ Damascus High School students
will present “Hello Dolly” this weekend. Performances will be at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday.
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hnamoorthy, 16, both of Clarksburg, Navya Nanda, 16, of Germantown, and Rachel Chang, 16, of Gaithersburg, have developed a multipurpose sealing device for the AbilityOne Design Challenge. The assistive technology for workers with disabilities will be used by workers at Frederick County’s Scott Key Center to help seal tea boxes.
Campus congrats Michele Brown of Damascus graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s in psychology from Salisbury University. • Abigail Daley of Clarksburg received an All-Academic award from the U.S. Track and Field and
Brendan Parent of Damascus High wrestles North Hagerstown’s Isaiah Brooks in the class 4A/3A state duals meet. Go to clicked.Gazette.net.
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In a Feb. 19 Education Notebook story, Cloverly Elementary School Assistant Principal Rachel Sifri’s name was misspelled. Also, the story incorrectly referred to the number of students who asked questions.
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Obituary Michael L. Roberts, 34, of Frederick MD passed away on Saturday February 15, 2014. Michael was an avid dirt bike enthusiast, winning numerous races and trophies. He especially enjoyed dirt biking on trails and mountains with his friends. He also was a radio controlled car enthusiast and loved being with his family, friends and especially his dogs Bailey and Izzy. Born on May 22, 1979 in Olney, MD, he is the beloved son of Esther Lee Roberts of Frederick MD, and Joe Franklin Roberts of Pulaski, VA.
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