Education Notes

The Campaign for Bowie State University: Believe, Invest, Grow (BIG) seeks to raise $15 million.
CNN anchor and present perfect continuous lesson plan special correspondent Soledad O'Brien was the gala's keynote speaker; WRC (Channel 4) anchor Jim Vance was master of ceremonies; and Grammy-winning singer Chante Moore performed. O'Brien, who is of Afro-Cuban and wedding present singapore Irish-Australian descent, discussed the importance of diversity in role models.
The university's Office of Institutional Advancement said that $5 million has been raised, with the largest single gift coming from William Teel Jr., who donated $600,000. Teel is the head of D.C.-based 1 Source Consulting and Energy Enterprise Solutions, and he is a campaign co-chairman.
Goddard Students Set For Model U.N. Conference

Forty-two student delegates plan to represent Robert Goddard Montessori School at the annual Montessori Model United Nations Conference in New York in March.
Goddard, which is on Good Luck Road in Seabrook, will be the first Montessori school in Prince George's County to send students to the conference, where they will serve as ambassadors of member countries. They will write, present and debate original resolutions about world problems in a simulated U.N. General Assembly.
Students, staff members and parents are working to raise the $25,000 needed to pay the students' conference expenses. The school's parent liaison, Candace Gunn, has established a support team to plan fundraising activities.
For details or to contribute, contact Gunn at 301-918-3517 or via e-mail at candace.gunnpgcps.org.
Students Send Signatures Into Space Aboard Shuttle

When the Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched Nov. 14, its cargo included a personal contribution from the students at Maryland International Day School: their signatures.
The school participated in the Student Signatures in Space program, co-sponsored by NASA and funny birthday present ideas Lockheed Martin. The program allows students to send their digitized signatures into space.
In May, students at Maryland International Day School in Oxon Hill joined more than 500,000 students from around the world in signing giant Space Day posters. The signatures were downloaded onto a disc and given to the crew to fly on the shuttle, which landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Sunday.
The mission delivered supplies to the International Space Station to help expand its living areas to increase capacity from three astronauts to six. The crew also performed repairsmaintenance work.