Congratulations to Centreville High School’s Girls Basketball Team for winning the Northern Region Championship title! The winning continues with Centreville’s Science Olympiad Team winning the Langley Regional Tournament!

Centreville’s Cara Portella recently led “Xavier’s Xtreme Team” in the nationally recognized Student Visionaries of the Year campaign for Blood Cancer United, raising an incredible $108,052.50 in just seven weeks to support blood cancer research and patients. Inspired by her brother’s battle with leukemia, Cara’s leadership and the team’s dedication have made a meaningful impact on countless lives and continue to showcase the extraordinary commitment of the Centreville Wildcats. Check out the full story on Good Morning Washington, ABC 7 WJLA!

Centreville students are launching an exciting environmental project in which they are growing grass in the classroom to support restoration efforts at Mason Neck State Park. If successful, the grass will be transferred in May to help strengthen underwater grass populations in the Chesapeake Bay. This hands-on learning experience allows students to explore environmental science in action while contributing to improved water quality and the Bay’s natural filtration system. Way to go!

Shout out to Chantilly High School for being selected for the 2026 First Amendment Press Freedom Award among 26 schools nationwide! This is the 12th consecutive award for Chantilly! Read about this honor. 

Chantilly Chargers continue to excel with Dev Goda taking first place in Flight Endurance at the Technology Student Association Northern Regional Fair, and the Advanced Cyber Team winning the Virginia High School Cyber Cup, a high-stakes Capture the Flag (CTF) competition that challenges students to solve complex digital puzzles, crack codes, and secure vulnerable systems in a race against the clock. 

The winning continues with Chantilly’s Amaan Khan, Utsav Das, and Benjamin Kwon winning the grand prize in Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design at the Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair!

Did you know? The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Academy hosts seventeen high school firefighters from Chantilly Academy as they prepare for careers in fire and emergency services. Having their class at the official Fairfax County Fire Department (FCFC) training facility provides students with a unique learning experience that includes both classroom training and intense, scenario-based practical exercises. Students have access to all of the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment that the Fire and Rescue Academy offers as they train in the same place as Fairfax County Fire Recruits.  

In the classroom, high school firefighters build a strong foundation in fire behavior, building construction, hazardous materials awareness, emergency medical response, and other fire service curricula emphasizing safety, critical thinking, and teamwork. As they move to the training grounds, students transform that knowledge into action through hands-on simulations. Wearing their own FCFD-issued protective gear, student firefighters practice hose advancement, ladder raises, search-and-rescue techniques, victim removal, and live-fire simulations in controlled training environments. Chantilly Academy high school firefighters receive their classroom and practical lessons from FCFD fire service professionals with decades of knowledge and experience. 

Congratulations to Fairfax High School’s Sauren Kwatra and Bishesh Pokhrel for winning the Junior Varsity division of the 2026 Washington, D.C. Metro History Bowl Championships, also known as the National History Bowl!

Fairfax Data Science students and the Girls Who Code Club visited FCPS’ Wilton Woods Center to see firsthand how data is stored, processed, and managed at scale, and to learn about the wide range of career pathways available in data science, information, technology, and engineering in Virginia. 

Fairfax Academy marketing students held this year’s Fashion Around the World fashion show by securing clothing donations from local businesses, designing and building custom modeling sets for each featured country, choreographing the run of show, and executing a high-quality, flawless production!

Way to go to Irving Middle School’s Team “W.A.R.T.S.,” whose name is an acronym for those “Who Actually Read The Stories,” for winning the Middle School Battle of the Books Competition! Read on!

Irving’s Solomon Merriweather was selected by the FCPS Black History Month Planning Committee to perform at the division’s Black History Month Celebration, Rooted in Resilience: Echoes of Excellence, last month at Carter G. Woodson High School. Fantastic!

Keene Mill Elementary School’s Helping Games have been a tradition at the school for the last nine years. The activities, which take place over a month, teach Keene Mill students meaningful life skills and values, such as empathy, compassion, responsibility, teamwork, and collaboration. 

During the Helping Games, the entire school community — students, faculty, and staff — is divided into four teams, who then compete against each other to do the most good. Each week brings a new cause to support. The school has already collected canned goods and books, which will be donated to local non-profit organizations ECHO, Northern Virginia Family Services, and Read on Young Readers. Over two more weeks, Keene Mill will hold a shoe drive and collect “Change for Change” to benefit a charity of the student government’s choosing. This year, the school will collect donations for the World Wildlife Fund. Outstanding!

Read more in FCPS News.

Congratulations to Lake Braddock Secondary School’s Amelia Cole for winning the VHSL State Championship Girls Indoor Track and Field 55-meter hurdles title!

Shout out to the Lewis High School Boys Basketball Team for winning the Cardinal Basketball Officials Association 2026 Sportsmanship Award!

Congratulations to the Oakton High School Girls Wrestling Team for winning the State Championship!

Bravo to the Robinson Secondary School Girls Indoor Track Team for winning the VHSL Class 6A State Championship and to Petra Gruendel for winning the Girls Indoor Track 1600-meter run title!

Rocky Run Middle School Spanish I classes have been working in small groups to create their own schools! They have been practicing their school vocabulary and using verbs and adjectives they already know to design a specialty school. Students have various roles in their groups, including a project manager who checks the rubric, an artist in residence who creates the visuals, a language wizard who checks spelling and grammar, and the mascot generator, who uses all the information about their school to design a mascot using Generative AI in Adobe Spark.

Cheers to the South County High School Boys and Girls Varsity Basketball Teams for winning the Occoquan Region Championships! 

Congratulations to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s Scholastic Bowl Team for winning their 2nd straight VHSL State championship! The winning continues with Thomas Jefferson’s Chess Team, Under-1400 Chess Team, and Blitz Chess Teams taking the state championship titles at the Virginia Scholastic and College Championships!

Thomas Jefferson students attended the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) annual conference and had the opportunity to tour exhibits, listen to speakers, and meet STEM mentors to learn more about exciting potential careers!

Kudos to West Springfield High School’s Elaina Primozic for her VHSL Girls Wrestling State Championship win and to Nicholas Bailey for winning the Boys Indoor Track and Field 500-meter dash title! The winning continues with the Spartan Rifle Team and team member Avana Harford winning first place in their Regional Competition! Additionally, the Science Olympiad Team won first place in their Regional Competition! Way to go, Spartans!