TOWSON, MD — A special “Summer Edition” episode of “BCPS News,” which spotlights Baltimore County Public Schools’ achievements and progress, is on the air through Sunday, August 4. Mary Beth Marsden, a local Emmy Award®-winning broadcaster, hosts the show.
This special 15-minute episode includes stories about:
- Evan Michael, a student at Parkville High School and a country singer who is on his way to stardom.
- Holabird Middle, a school that joined “My Healthy World,” an innovative, digital education program, which features a series of mobile apps for health and wellness education for elementary and middle schools.
- Western School of Technology students’ celebration of cultural diversity through their “Cultural Coalescence,” a festival during which the students gathered to share stories, foods, and dances representing their heritage.
- BCPS “mathletes” who competed in rounds of the 24 Game, a game designed to improve skills in mental computation, pattern recognition and deductive reasoning, during the annual M&T Bank Math Challenge.
A segment called “What’s Trending” provides a retrospective of news highlights from the past school year, including Vincent Farm Elementary School’s victory in BGE’s Wires Down Video Challenge, the unveiling of the Marine Corps JROTC class museum and Catonsville High School’s participation in the annual Empty Bowls Project charity event.
Produced twice monthly during the school year by BCPS-TV, "BCPS News" airs daily at 12:30 a.m., 5:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 73 and Verizon FiOS Channel 34 in Baltimore County. Additionally, the program is available online at
www.bcps.org/news/ed_channel and
http://www.youtube.com/user/BaltCoPS.
Since 1983, the school system’s television station has produced original and instructional programming, interactive DVDs, commercial satellite downlinks and live telecasts to serve the informational needs of students, parents, educators and citizens of Baltimore County. BCPS-TV also provides opportunities for BCPS students, staff and stakeholders to learn about and gain experience in television and video production. BCPS-TV student interns for this episode were Abby Kousouris of Hereford High School, Khalida Volou of Chesapeake High School and Erin Tyszko of Perry Hall High School.
Other original programs airing on BCPS-TV include “High School Sports Scene,” “Math Homework Helpers,” “Kid Conversation,” “Brain Gain,” “Student Art Break,” “Student Production Showcase,” “Up Beat” and “The Chalkboard.” The Education Channel also records and airs systemwide music and recognition events as well as recorded and live-stream broadcasts of the public meetings of the Baltimore County Board of Education.
A viewing schedule for BCPS-TV is available at
www.bcps.org/apps/edchannel_schedule/.
