Seneca Ridge sixth-graders Meghan Kelly, Kurt Funkhouser and Jake Browning, all 12, are also working on reducing energy usage in their homes.

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Sixth graders at Seneca Ridge Middle School walk into a hall in the sixth-grade wing that has been darkened to save energy.

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Peck shows his class a ceiling light in the sixth-grade wing that will be darkened because it is using too much energy.

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Rick Peck, a sixth-grade science teacher at Seneca Ridge Middle School, shows his class a graph that illustrates the power usage in the sixth-grade wing of the school.

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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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George Washington University civil engineering student Evan Anderson leads a group of Loudoun County High School students in the bridge-building exercise.

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Students examine real-time image processing during Supercomputers: From Sony Playstation 3 to Earth Simulators.

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A group of Loudoun County High School students work together to construct a 20-foot steel bridge in the Bridging Your Future workshop.

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Nancy Skacel, assistant professor at George Washington University, talks about pharmacogenomics during the annual Loudoun County High School Science, Technology and Engineering Day.

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George Washington University assistant professor Nancy Skacel talks to a group of Loudoun County High School girls about pharmacogenomics, the science of personalized health medication.

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During the annual Science, Technology and Engineering Day for Loudoun County High School students, students helped construct a 20-foot steel bridge during their afternoon at the George Washington University Ashburn Campus.

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In one workshop, Track Hackers Through a Maze of Networks, Loudoun County High School Students learned a hacking exercise and techniques on protecting systems from viruses.

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

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

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