Friday, May 17, 2013
Georgetown University sophomore Jim Coury wins $100,000.
Jim Coury, a 20-year-old Georgetown University sophomore from Olmstead, Ohio, won the Jeopardy! College Championship in an episode aired Friday night and with it a $100,000 grand prize. Coury competed in a two-week tournament in Culver City, Calif., last month and recordings of the championship began airing May 6. “Winning $100,000 was a crazy experience that took a very long time to sink in,” Coury said in a press release. “I was really focused on answering the questions and winning the game, so I sort of forgot about the prize until Alex Trebek mentioned it at the end. Then, I started shaking with excitement and relief.” Coury beat out Trevor Walker, a 20-year-old sophomore from MIT, and Kristen Jolley, a 21-year-old senior at the …
Email letter asks parents to invite Chancellor Kaya Henderson to the Fillmore Arts Center spring art show
Parents continue to pressure D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson to reverse cuts proposed in her FY 2014 budget that will leave the Fillmore Arts Center, 1819 35th St. NW, with as many students as the 2011-2012 year, but with $300,000 less in funding for staffing and supplies. Fillmore provides art and music education to children at eight DC public schools. As Patch previously reported, Principal Katherine Latterner created a new budget for the school that would require her to replace four full-time teaching positions with part-time hourly positions. Since the cuts were first announced, more than 1,000 people have signed a petition that urges Henderson to restore Fillmore Funding. Read: Fillmore Arts Center Faces Funding Cuts In an …
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Who's Going to the Jeopardy! College Championship Finals?
Georgetown University sophomore Jim Coury won during his appearance Wednesday night on the Jeopardy! College Championship and advances into the two-part finals Thursday and Friday. Coury competed in a two-week tournament in Culver City, Calif., last month and recordings of the championship began airing May 6. “The whole experience was fantastic, and I would do it over again in a heartbeat,” Coury, an international political economy major from Olmstead, Ohio, said in a press release. “I was so excited to be able to represent Georgetown on the show against some other great schools, and all my friends here were incredibly encouraging and excited for me.” Coury, the sixth Georgetown student to compete in the trivia game show, competed against …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Georgetown University does not currently provide housing for graduate students.
A new building under construction in Rosslyn could help Georgetown University meet demand for housing among graduate students, according to The Washington Business Journal. One building under consideration for additional housing is The JBG Co's. Slate building, a 203-unit residential structure at 1524 Clarendon Blvd. in Arlington, according to the Business Journal. The Slate building is part of a large residential and retail development, approved in 2008, to include 400 market-rate and 54 affordable apartment units along with 25 townhouses and as much as 10,000 square feet of retail, according to the Rosslyn Business Improvement District website. Georgetown already provides shuttle transportation between its Northwest DC campus and the …
Monday, May 13, 2013
Georgetown University celebrates its 2013 commencement the weekend of May 16.
Georgetown University's 2013 commencement activities begin May 16 and continue through May 19. Neighbors and visitors should anticipate parking restrictions on 37th Street NW from P to Prospect streets NW from May 16 to 19. Though the university is advising parents to take taxis because of limited parking, heavy traffic around the university is expected, acccording to Georgetown University spokesperson Rachel Pugh. The Georgetown University Police Department will be directing traffic on streets near the main gates. The the largest undergraduate ceremony will be 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, when more than 800 students will graduate from Georgetown College. All ceremonies will be webcast live at webcast.georgetown.edu. You can see the full …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Students can donate gently-used goods through Georgetown's MoveOut Drive.
As the spring semester winds down, students begin the annual task of packing up their belongings and heading home for the summer. Georgetown University is organizing several efforts to reduce the amount of waste created during pack-up days. Again this year the Georgetown University MoveOut Drive and its team of 150 volunteers will collect donations at 10 residence halls across campus between now and May 20. To accommodate students living off-campus, volunteers will pick up donations at student homes on 10 collection dates. The effort last year yielded more than 16 full moving trucks worth of donated goods, ranging from furniture to clothing to school supplies, according to Georgetown University spokesperson Rachel Pugh. For the quickest …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Be on the lookout as students in Northwest DC and across the country ditch four wheels for two.
Thousands of kids across the country will be biking to school Wednesday as part of the second annual National Bike to School Day. Seventeen DC schools have signed up to participate, according to the National Center for Safe Routes to School, which is organizing the event. See the full list of schools participating here. Neither Stoddert nor Hyde-Addison are listed, though Patch knows children at these schools regularly ride their bikes to school. NCSRS also sponsors International Walk to School Day each October. Wednesday’s weather is a little bit iffy — temperatures will climb to the upper 60s, but there’s a 40 percent chance of rain. Friday is National Bike to Work Day—stick with Patch for more information on that later this week. How …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Steve Dingledine, a fifth-grade teacher at Stoddert Elementary, continued this messy tradition
Steve Dingledine, a fifth-grade teacher at Stoddert Elementary, got creamed — chocolate cream to be precise — Thursday afternoon on the school playground. It was the fourth annual Pie in the Face day event. Two sisters baked their own pies — one chocolate and one cherry pie — and promptly shoved them in Dingledine's face to the delight of their schoolmates. Dingledine participates in this sweet and sticky tradition each year as part of a "thank you" to students who have just finished days of standardized testing under the District of Columbia Comprehensive assessment System. The honor of throwing a pie in his face is a prize auctioned each year at the PTA's annual Big Chili fundraiser. Fellow fifth-grade teacher Craig Duff led students …
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Band and Drill team of the Norwegian King’s Guard performed on the Stoddert Elementary field in Glover Park Tuesday.
One of only three performances by the Band and Drill team of the Norwegian King’s Guard during their current visit to the U.S. happened Tuesday right in Glover Park at Stoddert Elementary. A slight drizzle could not deter the 120-member King’s Guard as they performed a range of routines in full dress uniform on the Stoddert baseball field on Calvert Street, NW. One of the Stoddert fifth-grade classes is partnered with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of the Embassy Adoption Program. The King's Guard was in the D.C. area because of its participation in the Virginia International Tattoo—a military musical display—in Norfolk, Va. last week. The King's Guard in responsible for the safety of the Norwegian royal family. …
Monday, April 29, 2013
Top news of the week from our Patches around Virginia and DC.
Patch has 31 community sites in Virginia and D.C. Here are some of the top stories from around the region over the past week. 16. Mark Wahlberg Visits: Actor Mark Wahlberg visited T.C. Williams High School on Wednesday morning for an assembly presented by Get Schooled, a nonprofit that aims to engage high school students in an effort to improve graduation rates and empower more students to achieve in college. “I had to work really hard to get where I’m at,” Wahlberg said. “And I don’t mind working really hard to try and maintain it." 15. Runner Pledges 30 Races: Arlington resident Lauren Bailey is halfway through a personal challenge that has been daunting and exhilarating — running 30 races in one year, the year of her 30th birthday. …
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Congratulations Georgetown U for having Jim Coury! Here's hoping he and others will become future world leaders as has been some of your graduates. more ›