Congratulations to freshman Grace Hendricks for receiving the Award of Excellence in Musical Composition and to freshman Omid Barr for receiving an Honorable Mention. Both students composed and recorded...

CHS held the Student Member of Board (SMOB) election Feb. 10 to finalize the top two candidates for this Board of Education position. The four candidates were current SMOB Alan Xie and Lara Haft of Richard...

The Movies at Montgomery Mall will host the MCPS Student Film Festival March 31, coordinated by senior Laura Butvinik and junior Nina Katz. The festival will show videos that high school students submitted...

Congratulations to senior Sharon Ong for being named an Intel semi-finalist in the Science and Talent Search. Ong was one of 300 semi-finalists selected from 1,744 total applicants. Ong spent this past...

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Congratulations to seniors Julian Debenedetti, Leila Islam, Pablo Jakubowicz, Danielle Kloke and Cristian Salgado for being recognized as 2010-2011 Finalists in the National Hispanic Recognition Program...

Congratulations to sophomore Natalia Derechin for singing “Glitter in the Air” and winning Churchill’s Got Talent Dec. 3.

Congratulations to senior Jake Sickels for committing to play football for Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. Sickels has played football since he was 7, and will go on to play safety for the Division...

Congratulations to senior Shoruk Hassan for being recognized as one of 1,600 Semifinalists in the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship Program (NASP). According to Hassan, she is one of approximately...

Churchill Green, a club founded by senior Aaron Katz and junior Hal Zeitlin this year, was created to help the school become more environmentally aware. Its main goal is to promote a “greener” environment...

Congratulations to seniors Danielle Collins and Ben Kramer for being named Potomac Co-Youth of the Year by the Potomac Chamber of Commerce. Kramer, who is a founding member of the CHS Key Club chapter,...

Congratulations to the following students who were recognized in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program for placing in the top 50,000 students who took the 2009 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying...