Montgomery Community Media

Correction: In an earlier version of this article it stated that AutBuddy won the Fan Favorite Award. The team from Michigan won the Fan Favorite Award for their POP-Protect Our Parks app.  Six Montgomery County middle school students have been named Best in Nation winners in the annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge for their mobile app […]

Following a historic snowstorm, Montgomery County Public Schools closed for a week. MCPS’s Division of Food and Nutrition Services wanted to make sure that students in the County, who rely on free and reduced prices lunches, had access to hot meals while schools were closed. MyMCMedia’s Maureen Chowdhury reports.

The lineup for the spring semester of the Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia Speaker Series has been announced and the first event takes place on Feb. 3rd in Germantown. MCTV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television. The symposia are free and open to the public. […]

Make no doubt about it: Montgomery County public schools are opening on time on Monday morning. That’s the latest message from MCPS administrators on the district’s website. It will be the first time that MCPS students have been in class in over a week because of weather and road conditions following the Blizzard of 2016. […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Division of Food  and Nutrition Services provided free meals to students in the County during snow days. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Director Marla Caplon talks about how the program was organized.

What a week! Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials have announced that schools are closed Friday, January 29.  School-sponsored and community activities in school buildings also are canceled.  Administrative offices will open on time. Day care programs in school buildings will remain open as scheduled. Free lunch will be provided at 12 school sites. Weekend […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers  provided an update on the status of school operations on Wednesday. Bowers said that while progress is being made with clearing snow from MCPS buildings, many roads and sidewalks are still tough to navigate. MCPS will reevaluate snow operations today and release a status update for […]

Alex Tsironis launched the website “MoCo Snow” to predict school closings in Montgomery County. In this MyMCMedia Extra, Tsironis tells us about his site and how it’s grown since it first launched.

UPDATED Montgomery County Public Schools will be offering free lunches to students at three area schools on Wednesday, Jan. 27: Sargent Shriver Elementary School, between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. Clopper Mill Elementary School, between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. Gaithersburg Elementary School, between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. According to a MCPS news release, […]

County and school officials kicked off a new initiative to ensure all students have library cards. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS-TV to view more of its local programming. Related: