Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 6, 1993 TAG: 9305060174
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
The training will be done by Neal Beard, a physics professor at Hampden-Sydney College, and Robert Carlson, a member of the Governor's School faculty. The grant will also cover equipment for the teachers to take back to their schools for future use.
Surveys will be going out to middle and high school physics teachers to see what areas they would like the training to cover. Twenty-two teachers are to be chosen for the program, which will probably be held in the fall of 1993.
The school's service area covers school divisions in the New River Valley as well as Wythe, Bland, Carroll, Grayson and Smyth counties and the city of Galax. "And then we would like to reach beyond to the schools in Southwest Virginia," said Margaret Duncan, the school's director.
She said the school's primary purpose is to serve the students that commute to it for a half-day from the localities it serves. But she would also like it to be a resource center for teaching models and equipment loans for other schools.
It already loans equipment to teachers who have attended an in-service program and are trained in its use. Most recently, teachers from three school systems attended an April 21 microscopy workshop and can now check out Governor's School equipment for use in their own classrooms.
At its meeting this week, the Governor's School board learned that 29 of the school's 69 students will be leaving May 18 to present their research projects before the Virginia Junior Academy of Science at Old Dominion University. Students whose projects are rated high enough by judges will be written up in a state publication.
Students from the Governor's School finished first in division and state competition in the Junior Engineering Technology Service competition, and are now waiting to hear how they did in national competition held last month at Virginia Tech.
Three students - Brooks Moses, Dreama Crist and Diane Owens - received honorable mentions last month at the Virginia Science and Engineering Fair in Annandale for their projects.
Duncan reported that Parents in Education, an organization formed in connection with the Governor's School, will be awarding a college scholarship to a graduating senior at the end of this school year. Another scholarship will be awarded by Volvo-GM Heavy Truck Corp. in Pulaski County.
The Governor's School has 85 students confirmed as commuting from its various supporting school divisions in the 1993-94 school year. That is an 18 percent increase over this year's number, and a 44 percent increase over the 48 students it had in the 1991-92 year.
It opened in 1990 with only 24 students, and has grown by 72 percent since then.
by CNB