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The Sherwood High School Interact Club, the student service arm of the Olney Rotary Club, will collect bicycles at the school parking lot on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon to be sent overseas to countries where cars and other vehicles are scarce. 

A $10 tax-deductible donation per bike is suggested to help defray shipping costs. For more information, call Michael Miehl at 301-924-3200 or e-mail Michael_J_Miehl@mcpsmd.org.

The school is located at 300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road in Sandy Spring.

For information on Bikes for the World visit www.bikesfortheworld.org.

National Merit Scholarships awarded to county students

Nine Montgomery County Public Schools students and two other county residents received corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships financed by companies, foundations and other business organizations.

The students are among 20 corporate-sponsored scholars in Maryland. Nationally, about 1,000 scholars were chosen from 15,000 finalists in the annual program of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The winners, their schools, intended career fields and sponsors (where available) are:

-Surbhi Agrawal, Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, biology, Northrop Grumman.

-Rowana Ahmed, Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, chemical engineering, Macy's Foundation.

-Julie K. Cheng, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, business, Northrup Grumman.

-Laura A. Chitty, Quince Orchard High School, Gaithersburg, bioengineering, Lockheed Martin.

-Lydia J. Liang, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, medicine, Science Applications International Corporation.

-Michael R. Metzler, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, engineering, Dow Jones.

-Yael R. Nagar, Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Aspen Hill, anthropology, no sponsor listed.

-Anand D. Oza, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, mathematics, Lockheed Martin.

-Alexis D. Reineke, Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, biology, Northrup Grumman.

-Sebastian J. Snowberger, home school student, Germantown, chemistry, no sponsor listed.

-Scott S. Yu, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, law/finance, Science Applications International Corporation.

The scholars are all high school seniors and were selected for their academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, potential for success in rigorous college studies, and other criteria of the several hundred corporate sponsors.

Sign up for kindergarten

Kindergarten orientation continues through May 28 in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Children who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 should attend orientation at their neighborhood school. Parents who are not sure which school serves their area should call the Boundaries Office at 240-314-4710 or access the School Assignment Locator at www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org.

Final orientations include:

-Jones Lane Elementary, May 13, 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., and May 14, 9 a.m. to noon. Call 301-840-8160.

-Travilah Elementary, May 18 and 19, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 301-840-7153.

Celebrity treatment at Hoover

Herbert Hoover Middle School teachers and staff enjoyed red carpet treatment during National PTA's annual Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week May 3-7.

Following the theme "Celebrating Our Hoover Stars," parents, under the direction of Janette Gilman, PTA vice president and Staff Appreciation Week chair, provided lunches and treats each day. Each presentation was tied to theme of a popular movie, such as "Rocky" (1976), when pizza, including Philly cheese steak pizza, was served.

A winning history project

Junior Rollin Tschirgi, 16, and freshman Jordan Shusterman, 15, of the School for Tomorrow in Aspen Hill won first place in the senior group category at the Maryland History Day Competition at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 24.

They also were awarded a competition-wide prize, the Milt Zaslow Award for Cryptology for Maryland History Day.

In keeping with the theme "Innovation in History," the students built transistor radios and developed their exhibit: "The Transistor: The Beginning of the Modern Information Age." They competed against more than two dozen others in the category and now advance to the June 13-17 Kenneth E. Bering National History Day at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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