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The Thomas Dale High School Marching Knights are hosting this year’s All County Band Night Exhibition. All Chesterfield high schools will perform. The event is free to the community. It will take place Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 6 p.m. Concessions will be sold at the event. Recently the Marching Knights held their annual two-week camp to prepare their show for the season. During the camp, drum majors Shamar Matthews and Jacob Kern challenged their sections to a coin contest to raise money for Autism Speaks. The Marching Knights raised $736.13 for the nonprofit.

Building lasting relationships with youth is Rick Cremonese’s goal. Cremonese, a master officer with Chesterfield Police Department, helped start a Police Athletic League pilot program last year. The program has blossomed into a full-blown one this year, and the Chesterfield Police Athletic League has held an event each month for children ages 5-17. The next event – a football camp set to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 30, at Falling Creek Middle School’s practice field – will include Chesterfield native and some former college and professional football players. Cremonese, 52, got the idea for a Police…

Francoise Favi, laboratory and research specialist in entomology with Virginia State University’s Agricultural Research Station, has received the President’s Volunteer Service Award, a national honor offered in recognition of volunteer service. Favi received the award on April 21 during National Volunteer Week. “I am overwhelmed with joy,” Favi said. “This work involved a lot of time outside my regular employment. I am very grateful to VSU and everyone who helped… We have made a great contribution toward U.S. assistance for international development.” Favi received the award for her volunteer work in Bangladesh on a project to grow cassava for industrial…

An idea that started at Meadowbrook High School six years ago is now being used at L.C. Bird High. Matt Bland, teacher of the Success program that works with at-risk ninth-graders, needed someone to help him with the Bridging the Gap computer program, and he recruited Bill Stehle, a retired Dominion Virginia Power Co. employee. “I’m a great facilitator, but I didn’t know anything about technology,” Bland said. Stehle, who worked in the information technology department at Dominion, was seemingly the perfect fit. Bridging the Gap works in conjunction with the Virginia Star program that recycles used desktop computers from…

“We have a duty to make our environment safer. Tonight we are making a stand. Enough is enough. We will not be next.” With those words, Thomas Dale High School senior Makayla Callender may have summed up the feelings, thoughts and emotions of some 75 students who stood on the field in front of the school on a cold, windy March 14 evening to commemorate the 17 people killed Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Callender said she was one of the students from the newly-formed National Social Studies Honor Society who organized the…

Instructional practice that effectively integrates 21st-century technology tools to enhance and strengthen a student’s learning experience Chesterfield County students participated in Digital Learning Day last week as part of the school division’s efforts to create and highlight innovative instructional practices through its Imagine Tomorrow Spotlight Days. Chesterfield County Public Schools moved toward a blended learning model as part of a continued effort to engage students in authentic learning opportunities. “Through our nationally recognized Anytime, Anywhere Learning initiative, our schools continue to combine the best of face-to-face instruction with 21st century technology tools that capture our students’ attention and launch them…

Recently several members of the Thomas Dale High School and Elizabeth Davis Middle School bands were selected as members of the 2018 District III All-District Band event held on February 2 and 3 at Monacan High School. The selection process requires that students complete a blind audition. Those with the highest scores in each instrument are selected for the program. Students from Elizabeth Davis selected for the Junior Band included: Madison McConico (flute), Jamie Cameron (bassoon), Cindy Dong (clarinet), Nicholas Pakurar (trumpet), Ethan Snyder (French horn), Parker Johnston (euphonium), Juli Mathis (percussion), Trinity Cathers (percussion), and Keegan Andre (percussion). Thomas…

C.C. Wells Elementary participated in their first Turkey Trot for a Cause, a project-based learning event developed by fifth grade students during their resource classes.  The students were challenged with this problem: they wanted to help kids impacted by a hurricane and develop a school-wide event that would raise funds to help with recovery. The Turkey Trot, held Friday, was developed over a month-and-a-half period. Tyler Harris, a local high school student at L.C. Bird and son of a Wells kindergarten teacher, came to discuss with the fifth graders a similar service learning project he developed the Run 4 Massey 5k. Wells students…

     Chesterfield Career & Technical Center students of the Cisco Networking Academy, working alongside industry professionals, hosted the inaugural Hack4Troops cyber-security fundraiser event on Veterans Day and helped to raise over $14,000 to support veterans through the Tech For Troops Project. High school students, college students, and professionals came together for this unique cyber security event. Last February, three high school students from the Cisco Networking Academy at the Tech Center got the idea to put on this event. Ben Allen, Nick Copi, and Ben Davies dedicated over 80 hours of their personal time attending meetings and developing challenges…