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Annual St. Patrick's day auction a huge success

The GWCS Community banded together this year to make our annual St. Patrick's Day Auction the most successful ever! With parents contributing big ticket items like week-long getaways to Maine and North Carolina, the SGA working to man an online silent auction, and with students willing to part with their hard-earned cash at our noisy auction, we managed to raise more funds than in the past three years combined! Students bid up unlikely items like fuzzy dice, a Star Wars cup cover, and a stuffed pig, resulting in an edge-of-the-seat experience. Funds will go to SGA events such as the senior beach trip and Prom.

GWCS Astrophysics - An out of this world experience

Friday, March 20 th , GW's Astrophysics class went to Greenbank, West Virginia, home of the the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to perform a weekend-long experiment concerning the measurement of galactic rotational curve. Led by GW's own astrophysicist, Dr. Caroline Cox, students spent the weekend operating the 40-foot telescope to determine how mass is distributed in the Milky Way.

GWCS Robotics Team in the Maryland Championship

With the help of a last-minute Friday-night hardware modification, the team's robot Snaphoo driven by Ben Shaps scored dozens of pucks and provided stiff competition. Unfortunately, due to bad luck of the draw, our partner teams were almost entirely unsuccessful. We finished the qualifying rounds ranked 23 out of 39, which did not accurately reflect our team's performance. Nonetheless, the team had fun madly working to improve our robot and its program and get it to its matches on time and had an overall satisfying day.

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GWCS Junior Parents Meeting

The Junior Parents Meeting was held on Wednesday, February 18th to help the parents of junior students understand what to expect during senior year at GWCS and the upcoming college application process. The meeting, held by Ms. Warden and Mr. Pereira, had tremendous parent turnout and was highly informative. The meeting was full of vital information; including a clear explanation of parent, student, and staff responsibilities, a concise timeline, strategies for reducing stress, and many other helpful tips, handouts, and web links.

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College Visite Days Excite

GW juniors and a few seniors were not at school on February 2nd and 3rd because they were taking time to visit colleges all over the state and even out of state. GW sets aside two days every February so that students can spend time on college campuses when school is in session. Summer time may be a more convenient time for high school students to visit colleges - but to get the real flavor of campus life it's important to visit while school is in session.

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