Barbara Marshall

Maggie Walker music students earned seats through auditions to participate in Central Regional Orchestra Feb. 2-3, 2018 at Manchester High School.   M From left to right: Mira Eisenhauer (Henrico, 2021), A Orchestra, Cello, seat 7 Amanda Perez (Henrico, 2021), A Orchestra, Violin 2, seat 14  Ananya Shah (Henrico, 2021), A Orchestra, Violin 1, seat…

Who May Enter The essay contest is open to students currently in grades 9 through 12 from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Note: Children, grandchildren, stepchildren, and members of the household of a federal judge or federal judiciary employee are excluded from the competition. Essay Question The prompt for the 2018 Essay…

Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Thursday, February 15th from 4 -7 p.m.  Sign-ups go live for parents at 12:00 pm today in the Parent Portal of PowerSchool. Dr. Lowerre sent our families a notice earlier today with login information to Signup Genius for conference registration. If you do not receive this message by the end of the day,  please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

The regularly scheduled meeting of the Maggie Walker Governor’s School Regional Board will be held on February 15, 2018, @ 9:00 am, in Room 153, on the MW campus. An FY19 budget work session will follow the conclusion of this meeting. Persons wishing to address the Regional School Board are required to contact the Board Clerk.…

The Virginia Association for the Gifted is proud to offer annual opportunities to award and recognize excellence through the following:  Virginia Association for the Gifted Outstanding Student Awards, Leader of the Year Award, Parent of the Year Award, Regional Teacher of the Year Awards, Teacher Innovative Grants, and Student Summer Scholarships.   New this year: the…

Congratulations to both MLWGS teams…repeating team regional titles for the girls’  while the boys’ earned second place. Special acknowledgment to the girls’ 400-free relay team  (Addy Cullen, Isabella Dulá, Andrea Macedo, and Quinn Keatley) and the boys’ 200-free relay team (Henry Paulson, Ethan Choo, Noah Ratliff, and Ben Widener) for winning meet records! Also, congratulations to Anna…

Senior, Eli Scaparo (Powhatan), has been selected to receive a 2018-19 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. Eli was one of only a handful of VA art students to have their portfolio selected for this honor which includes a cash award.  Eli will be recognized at the VMFA during a celebratory event on Friday, March…

This year MLWGS had four teams recognized as ‘Finalist’ in the HiMCM math modeling contest.  The Finalist designation puts those four teams in the top 8% of the 938 teams competing worldwide giving us the best results that we’ve had in five years.  In this year’s competition teams chose either to tackle a problem coordinating…

The Virginia Department of Education would like to recognize professional school counselors during the week of February 5-9, 2018, as we celebrate National School Counseling Week.   The theme for the 2018 National School Counseling Week, “School Counselors: Helping Students Reach for the Stars,” to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within…

Please take a moment and thank your local school board member. Their efforts behind the scenes make MLWGS outstanding. Find your RSB member here.

  The Internet African American History Challenge© is an interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History. It’s an “open book” test. So if you’re not sure of an answer, you can check our reference material for help.  http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/

We are very excited to announce that 21 students were recently honored as 2017-2018 Scholastic Writing Award winners!   Summary of Awards: 5 Gold Key awards    6 Silver Key awards           10 Honorable Mentions Congratulations the following Maggie Walker students: Perisa Ashar / Silver Key / Poetry / The Outcast Perisa Ashar / Silver Key / Poetry…

We are very excited to announce that our talented students in the fine arts were recently honored again this year by having their work selected in the Scholastic Art competition.   This is a highly competitive art competition which returned this year to local jurying through our affiliate at the Visual Arts Center. MLWGS students had…

The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. In 1979, the program was extended to recognize students who demonstrate exceptional talent in the visual, creative and performing arts. In 2015, the program was again…