Hood College is scheduled to hold a memorial service on Saturday to honor a former arts professor.

Joyce Michaud, the former director of the ceramics program and professor emerita, died on Jan. 6.

The service is scheduled to be held on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Ceramic Studio 1 in Hood’s Tatem Arts Center.

Hood College undergraduate student Mariana Poshyvailo wrote that Michaud created and directed the college’s ceramic arts program.

Michaud retired in 2019. In her honor, her family established an endowed ceramics scholarship at Hood College to support undergraduate students in ceramic arts or studio arts, and to support graduate students in the ceramics program, according to Poshyvailo.

In November 2023, the college shut down the ceramics graduate program and the program is no longer accepting students. Graduate students that were already in the program have until the fall of this year to finish their degrees.

Frederick County Public Schools on March 22 hosted the Secondary Science and Engineering Fair.

The high school winners and runners-up can compete in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Ohio in May.

An FCPS teacher is a finalist for the 2024-25 Golden Owl Award.

Brittany Sentelle, a career and technical education teacher at Frederick High School, was chosen a finalist out of agricultural educators from across Maryland.

The Golden Owl Award recognizes agriculture teachers, and is co-sponsored by the Maryland chapter of Future Farmers of America and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in conjunction with the Maryland Farm Bureau.

Sentelle will compete against one other finalist, Erika Edwards from Hereford High School in Baltimore County, for the award.

The award winner will be announced on June 23 at the annual Maryland FFA Convention.

New Market Middle School is scheduled to host an International Night on April 25.

The event will feature food trucks from different cultures, games, crafts and performances including bagpipes, dancing and Kung Fu.

Several interactive demonstrations will take place, including African hair braiding and Chinese calligraphy.

Leslie Williamson, a 6th and 7th grade math teacher and the No Place for Hate coordinator at the middle school, said the event is the school’s culminating activity for the No Place for Hate initiative.

The initiative is run by the Anti-Defamation League.

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