October 2019

Happy Halloween!

Halloween here at the Academies! Entries from our pumpkin painting contest!!!  



AOS and HCI Students Tour D.C.

Academy of Science and Hwa Chong Institution (Singapore) students are having a great time touring the natural history museum and seeing downtown D.C.


Dr. Rivets Returns!

RoboLoCo competed in their first off-season event for this season the IROC – Ilite Robotics Off-Season Challenge. The team hosted two new drive teams – and their performances were outstanding. Despite some battery challenges and…


The Untold Truth About E-Cigarettes: Vaping Epidemic

Overview Many believe that vaping is safer than using regular cigarettes, since their initial purpose was to get smokers off of tobacco.  A 2015 poll conducted by the Community Anti-Drug Organization showed that 66% of…


Academies of Loudoun’s First House Build Project

Academies of Loudoun Principal Tinell Priddy thanks the various collaborators whose contributions made the new construction project possible. Photo by Times-Mirro/John Ballston. LCPS students have collaborated with licensed contractors before to build houses, but this…




The Differential Grasshopper

General Information You may have noticed that in the upper courtyards at the Academies of Loudoun there are a lot of grasshoppers. These grasshoppers are known as Differential Grasshoppers, Melanoplus differentialis. You may be unfamiliar…


The Dying Season

First one fell, and then another And the tree was losing life. He looked to his right, at his dying brother And his friends; even his wife. Then the wind blew the flakes So far,…


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