Three-year-program has high school students work in teams to tackle real world problems like food access issues, energy sustainability and clean water,

Edison students and staff participated in the 2023 Regional Science Fair. Congratulations to all the students who participated in the EHS school fair and the regional fair; both were amazing events. A big shout-out goes to our science teachers, too! Below are our winners – please congratulate them when you see them!

We are delighted to share that Cristina Procaccino was named the Region 3 Secondary School Teacher of the Year! Region 3 Assistant Superintendent Grace Taylor, Executive Principals Jesse Kraft and Leona Smith and our admin team visited her 7th period class Tuesday 2/21to give her the good news. Cristina now moves to the finals…she will compete against the other four regions for Secondary Teacher of the Year.

Edison High School is now a Virginia Purple Star School!

We were notified this week that Thomas A. Edison High School has been selected by the Military Student Support Process Action Team (MSSPAT) reviewer for the 2022-2023 Purple Star Designation Award.
We will be receiving a Certificate of Recognition and an award coin; we also have the right to use the purple star logo on our website and in any communication that we deem appropriate.
We received positive comments about the whole package that was submitted (thank you, David Schlemmer and Sarah Mahan!) In particular, we appreciate the following statement from the review team:
The reviewer wishes to affirm the entirety of the application submitted. The artifacts presented enabled the reviewer to obtain a strong sense of the hard work occurring at the school. The efforts of the peer transition program described was solid. Simply put, the success of transitional support to our military connected students would be nowhere without the efforts of students like these. Wishing them much success!

Our Varsity Cheer finished 4th on Saturday at the National District Cheer Competition. Aiyana DaSilva and Elle Schmitt received 1st team all district. Jaida Worthem received 2nd team all district. Way to go Eagles!

This week some of our Class of 2023 students started their day together on the football field. They shared refreshments and friendship as the sun rose. The rock now reflects the Class of 2023, too.

During the second week in February, the science department hosted our Science Fair. In a span of four days, two hundred sixty-two projects from twenty-four classes were judged by twenty-one science teachers and one counselor. The effort of five hundred thirty-seven students to demonstrate how the world of science works was demonstrated through research, observations, and experimentation.

Seventy-five projects received awards and twenty-two projects were selected to compete at Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which will take place virtually, in March 18-20, 2022.

The energy, creativity, and innovation of students’ minds, along with continued guidance from their science teachers made this event very successful. Thanks to an outstanding organization of the event, provided by the Science Fair Directors, Ms. Debbie Meinholdt and Dr. Michele Fontana, and the close collaboration of the whole Science Department, science fair was a real celebration of scientific investigation.

On Saturday evening 2/5, our Edison Eagles Wrestling Team became the District Champions for the fourth year in a row! Congratulations to the team (see attached picture) and Coach Scott Racek on their victory.

Thumbs up to:
Dylan Beirne, 4x district champion and Most Outstanding Wrestler
Will Dight, 3 x champion
Felix Chang, 2 x champion
Glean Gonzalez, 2x champion
Shan Kolb

Second place:
Hachem Belallam
Daryl Gagnon

Third Place:
Daniel Margand
Andrew Perry
Zohar Mohsin

Fourth Place:
Geno O’Neill

The wrestling team competed in the District Tournament 2/12 and did very well:

Team: 3rd place out of 16
Region Champions: Will Dight and Glean Gonzalez
Runner Up: Dylan Beirne

3rd Place: Hachem Belallam, Shan Kolb
4th Place: Zohar Mohsin, Daniel Margand
5th Place: Jack Knowles
6th Place: Daryl Gagnon, Felix Chang

Please congratulate these students when you see them!

The Edison Forensics team took 3rd place at the VHSL regional tournament. Congratulations to Sophie McCorquindale for her 1st place finish in Storytelling, and Dimitrios Owen for his 2nd place finish in Impromptu! They advance to the super-regionals in February

Congratulations to our Latin students who have excelled in 2 different competitions.

On November 14, 22 Edison Latin students attended the Virginia Junior Classical League State Latin convention. Our students left with 43 awards in academics and the arts!
The winners are:
Porter Bertman, Mathias Casolari, Olivia Forsythe, Joshua Kohm, Natalie Laclede, Henry Mason, Benjamin Michaud, Noe Morales Mascarenas, Harper McClure, Micah Peters, Keegan Ross, Anneli Sample, Leila Selassie, Euseekers Williams, Sophia Yesehak, and Caitlin Zecca
Special kudos go to senior Keegan Ross, who won the Susan Schearer award for Creative Arts excellence. Of the nearly 700 student participants, Keegan earned the most creative award points of all students. This included composing and reciting a speech to a panel of judges and writing an original myth. Sophomore Olivia Forsythe also earned the Best in Show award for her Oil Painting of the mythological character, Argus. Sophomore Porter Bertman wrote an original song about Icarus that he earned First Place place in Storytelling.

Our Latin 1 trivia competition team placed 2nd again 12/11/21 at the BASIS DC Charter School Virtual Certamen Competition. We were 100 points ahead going into the final but fell 2nd to TJHSST by only 10 points in the final round. We also only had 2 students on our team: Joshua Kohm and Noe Morales Mascarenas. They competed against 14 other teams including Hayfield, Flint Hill, and Nysmith School for the Gifted

A team of young women from our Global STEM Challenges Program were selected as a state winner in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition. The have won $6,500 worth of Samsung technology for our GSCP and have a chance to continue on to the national competition.

They will be working on an engineering solution to address the problems of food access and food waste. In order to advance to the national competition, the student team will be making a 3-minute documentary about their process and design. The team will then need to promote their idea on social media to try and place as one of the top teams. If they are ranked high enough, they will present their technology to a “Shark Tank” style panel for the national contest in DC.

On Wednesday, Joe Wolfe, Edison Academy’s Electrical teacher, was recognized at the FCPS Excellence Awards ceremony in the category of Impact on Others. Thank you Joe for your professionalism, dedication, and all that you do for our Edison Academy teachers and students. Joe is quick to share opportunities and to collaborate with others. He takes the lead in offering cross and co-curricular activities with other teachers. He involves his students in community service projects for non-profit organizations. Joe works with local business and industry leaders to place students in paid summer internships and youth apprenticeships while in high school and after graduation.