Magnet Foundation News: Summer 2014

Nominations are now open for the Distinguished Alumni Award! Please nominate deserving alumni by October 1st!

At its summer meeting, the Board of Directors for the Magnet Foundation re-elected the following officers:

• • President: Ted Jou

  • Vice-President: Eileen Steinkraus

  • Secretary: Sharon Goodall

  • Treasurer: Dan Shepherdson

The Board of Directors approved the following new grants:

• • $2800 for Pencil Box digital logic kits

  • $750 to upgrade the 3-D Printer

  • $1,000 to cover Mr. Rose's expenses to speak at two NCTM regional conferences

  • $2,000 to help the Robotics Team pay for building access fees

Magnet students were able to participate in several activities funded by past grants:

• • $100 paid for Physics Olympiad testing for Blair students, and two students, Alexander Bourzutschky '14 and Michael Winer '15, qualified for the 2014 U.S. Physics Team.

  • $400 paid for a bus to the X-STEM Conference.

  • $500 supported an original composition for the Blair Orchestra: British composer lends notes to Montgomery Blair High School

  • $1,875 helped send the computer team to the ACSL-All-Star Contest in Colorado.

  • $2,000 registered 5 teams for the Montgomery County ARML Team.

  • $3,000 helped students and chaperones to attend the XSEDE Conference in Atlanta, where the students won the Student Modeling and Simulation Challenge.