Success

Select students spent the summer learning laboratory science at Georgetown University in a 10-week immersion program. Each year eight students receive an internship as Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholars. To prepare, the students completed a mandatory Seminar in Critical Reading in Biology during the spring semester. Their internships include paid research in a Georgetown laboratory under faculty supervision. All scholars presented the results of their summer research at the Howard Hughes Fellowship research symposium.

The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) named the MC Student Construction Association the 2014 Student Chapter of the Year. The national competition recognizes an outstanding ABC student chapter for their accomplishments in programming, community service, communications/public relations, and interaction with its sponsoring ABC chapter during the academic year.