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Friday, February 15, 2013

College Park Shooter Dayvon Maurice Green: What We Know

Sources described a likable engineering student with a strong academic record—and a mental illness.

  On Tuesday afternoon, Prince George's County police identified the alleged shooter from an early morning murder-suicide in College Park as 23-year-old Dayvon Maurice Green. According to police, Green was an engineering graduate student at the University of Maryland. Speaking to reporters outside the scene of the shooting, UMD President Wallace Loh said he believed Green had been at the university for about a year. Green earned his undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, officials said. The Baltimore Sun reports that he was a member of Phi Beta Sigma's Gamma chapter and maintained a grade point average above 3.5. Green also participated in the NASA Student Ambassador program and worked at the NASA Goddard Space …

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Obama Elementary Awarded STEM Grant

The Upper Marlboro Elementary School will receive money to help create programs with an engineering focus.

  Barack Obama Elementary in Upper Marlboro is one of the schools recently named as a recipient of a $60,000 grant from the Maryland State Department of Education to pilot the Engineering in Elementary (EIE) program. The EIE focuses on students in first and second grades. “This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to develop their science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills,” Verjeana M. Jacobs, Chair of the Prince George's County Board of Education, said. “We are helping to spark students’ interest in science at an early age and teaching them skills that can be used in the real world.” The program helps peak the interest of students in the field of engineering at a young age. It is classroom-tested and integrates the …

John

12:51 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Sonia - "The program helps PEAK the interest of students in the field of engineering at a young age." PEAK (noun) 1. the pointed top of a mountain or ridge. 2. a mountain with a pointed summit. 3. the pointed top of anything. 4. the highest or most important point or level: the peak of her political career. 5. the maximum point, degree, or volume of anything: Oil prices reached their peak last …   more ›

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