Seneca Ridge Middle School science teacher Rick Peck uses Google Earth images to discuss our area watersheds.

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Science teacher Rick Peck gives his students a sheet of aluminum foil to create a map of rivers with their watersheds. From left, Meera Chauhan, 12; Janera Martinez, 12; Rick Peck; Aly Kamins, 12; and Jillian Kazmierczak, 12.

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Seneca Ridge Middle School science teacher Rick Peck calls on a student in his class.

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Seneca Ridge Middle School science teacher Rick Pack discusses the relationship of space with our watersheds.

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At Seneca Ridge Middle School, Edison Rolle, 11 (left), and Taaj Davis, 12, test their foil watershed map with water in Rick Peck's science class.

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Seneca Ridge Middle School science teacher Rick Peck calls on a student in his class.

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2008-2009 Agnes Meyer Award recipient, Jim Jenkins, a fifth-grade teacher at Mountain View Elementary School in Purcellville.

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Protesters from western Loudoun gather in front of the Loudoun County government building to protest the purchase of lands being purchased in Lovettsville for new schools.

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Senior Ryan Stubbs hugs senior Maya Evans as fellow students Skyelar Decker, a sophomore, and John Paul Mardelli, also a senior, look on after a grief counseling session at Dominion High School.

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Tara Moss, a social worker, and Geri Fiore, a school counselor, talk with male students in the grief counseling session at Dominion High School for students who have lost a close relative or are about to lose a close relative.

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Seniors Scott Everhart, John Paul Mardelli, Ryan Stubbs and Alex Wood talk to each other during a grief counseling session at Dominion High School for students who have lost a close relative or about to lose a close relative.

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Tara Moss, a social worker, talks with male students during a grief counseling session at Dominion High School where students and counselors talk about the students' loss of a close relative.

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Loudoun Valley High School sophomores Michael Wallace, Ben Walker, John McCray, all 15, and Langley Barth (not pictured), 16, have been hard at work for the past year planning a 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament that promotes drug awareness among teens. The event is being held on April 18 and features University of Maryland Coach Joe Harrington as its guest speaker. The teens are members of a county-operated teen program that promotes substance abuse prevention.

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Ting-Yi Oei, an assistant principal at Freedom High School, was cleared of charges of possession of child pornography.

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Loudoun schools' director of planning and legislative services, Sam Adamo, stands with one of the many maps his team uses in their work.

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Children work on their math skills on the computer at Newton-Lee Elementary School.

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Krish Thuthija works on some math problems while Principal Carol Winters helps out Lauren Eichenlaub.

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Students at Newton-Lee Elementary work on their fractions during a card exercise.

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Several math activities are spread throughout a second-grade classroom for students to rotate through at Newton-Lee Elementary School.

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