Montgomery Community Media

For many years, DAR’s Constitution Hall has been the venue for the majority of MCPS graduations. MCPS -TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

Two Montgomery County Public Schools students were recognized this week as U.S. Presidential Scholars—the only public school students from Maryland to receive the honor and 21 MCPS students from six high schools were awarded National Merit $2,500 Scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Patrick E. Cha, of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, and Emily […]

The Piney Branch Pool in Takoma Park faces closure if county funds used to subsidize it dry up this year. The 25-meter pool is used by swimmers, senior citizens and even the Montgomery Blair High School swim team, but without county funds it might have to shut at the end of the fiscal year, June […]

Seven Montgomery County Public Schools seniors from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships, MCPS announced Wednesday. These scholarships, which range from $500 to $10,000, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. The students are among 17 high school seniors in Maryland and more than 1,000 seniors nationwide to […]

UPDATED April 19 It took over seven hours but Montgomery County firefighters have successfully rescued a small dog from a a six-inch pipe  that was buried about 12′ below ground, according to a Montgomery County fire official. Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the call for help came in from the Pomeranian’s owner around 6:30 p.m. […]

Robotics teams from five Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) high schools participated in the 2015 Chesapeake Regional FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 and 4. The two-day contest put students’ robots to the test, as they competed for a spot in the finals that will be held in St. Louis. This year’s competition, “Recycle Rush,” […]

Bethesda resident Michael Winer was named one of three first place winners in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search this month. Michael, a senior at Montgomery Blair High School, won the First Place Medal of Distinction for Innovation in the prestigious science competition. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke has more. You can peruse Winer’s blog here. For […]

This past weekend after covering an emotional schoolboy hardwood battle between Georgetown Prep and Landon Friday night I picked my cameras back up on Saturday and headed out to Germantown. Weekends such as this are fun for parents and their student athletes.  It all comes to a fine dénouement – for end of season events […]

Sixteen Montgomery County Public Schools students have been named semifinalists in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology and three of those students have been selected as regional finalists. Hyunsoo Chung of Richard Montgomery High School, Matthew Yu of Montgomery Blair High School and Molly Zhang of Richard Montgomery High School were named […]

Two teams of Montgomery County students were honored in a national documentary competition sponsored by C-SPAN which encourages youth to produce short documentaries on issues of national importance.  This year, students used video cameras in the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary contest to answer the question, “what’s the most important issue U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?” […]