Please come support the cast and crew of "KNOW YOUR ROLE" for a free performance on Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are not required. This one act performance won first place in the regional 2020 VHSL competition and moves on to the next round, Thursday, February 13th.

 

Know Your Role:  No sooner do we leave the womb than we're bombarded by society's expectations about gender. If you're a boy, you're like this. If you're a girl, you're like that. Through scenes and monologues that range from hilarious to heartbreaking, this one-act explores how these expectations affect teens' daily lives. Whether it's how they dress, the rules of dating, body image, parental pressures or a host of other ways, the teens of this flexible ensemble reveal how gender expectations affect them and how they "role."

In celebration of National Engineers Week, George Mason University will host its fourth annual Engineering Youth Conference for middle and high school students,https://ist.gmu.edu/EngineeringConference/ on Sunday, February 16th 9am-2pm. Space is limited. See conference and registration details below.

The conference will feature keynote speakers: Atif Qarni, Virginia Secretary of Education, Diane Miller, Director InfoSec Operations and Identity Management & Global Cyber Education and Workforce Development Programs Northrop Grumman  and Deborah Crawford,  Vice President for Research George Mason University. Conference workshop sessions include a wide range of engineering fields including: Bioengineering, Civil, Mechanical, Systems, as well as Cybersecurity and Computer Science/Technology.

Attendees will get insider tips on how to succeed with pursing an engineering degree and network with guest speakers and future engineers and IT professionals. Hands-on activities include opportunities to design and build structures, learn about smart home technologies, wearable technologies, explore nanotechnology to prosthetics, apply computer science to solve problems in medicine, develop cybersecurity strategies that keep devices safe, robots and drones demonstrations, and much more.

Click HERE to register for this free event. Parents need to register with their child(ren) as all minors have to be accompanied by their parent(s).