The Dialog

By TheDialog

CHILDS, Md. — More than 200 runners, including several Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, supported Mount Aviat Academy at the school’s third annual 5K and Sister Walk, which was held April 14 in Childs, Md. The participants ranged in age from 4 to 70 on the hilly 3.1-mile course and included students from all grades, teachers, alumni, parents and others.

The overall male winner was Shaun Baker, the overall female winner Aubrey Preske, a fifth-grade student at Mount Aviat. Both received gift cards from the Olive Garden of Elkton.

Competitors start the Mount Aviat 5K and Sister Walk on April 14. All photos submitted by Mount Aviat Academy.

Sister John Elizabeth, Mount Aviat’s principal.

By TheDialog

Mount Aviat receives three science grants

CHILDS, Md. – Mount Aviat Academy has $1,200 to spend on energy- and environmental-related lessons thanks to three grants the school received recently from Delmarva Power. Mount Aviat was one of three 10 Maryland schools to receive the funding. Read more »

By Mike Lang

Staff reporter

CHILDS, Md. – A STEM grant has changed the look and feel of science education at Mount Aviat Academy.

According to the school, Mount Aviat received a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) grant last spring to implement changes to its classrooms. The school’s science lab now includes an ActivSound enhancement system, ready access to iPads and a set of MacBook laptops, and learner-response devices that allow the students to be connected to the room’s Promethean board – an apple version of a SMART Board.

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