A built-to-specs laboratory outfitted with equipment enabling researchers to harvest energy in new ways from waves, sun, and wind, as well as mechanical vibration such as railroad trains produce opened today in India for Virginia Tech, according to a news release from the Virginia governor's office.

This article outlines some "Common sense" strategies for students and parents involved in the testing cycle. Entering a test situation without students and teachers knowing how the test work does not make sense to me. Yet it happens all of the time. It really is equivalent to "Testing in the Dark"!

Summer school assistant principal appointments have been made by the Prince William County School Board:

Today's young people don't know a world without online social interaction. With 81% of Internet-using teenagers in America using social media sites and apps, it brings with it pitfalls and even dangers. PWCS-TV explores the issue with personalities from Bull Run Middle, Graham Park Middle and communications.

Here is the good news. Parents, regardless of their income, background, or educational level have the innate skills to establish a level of readiness for school. If you have taught your child how to walk and talk, you can provide the support he or she needs for high performance in the classroom.

Marcus Williams of Manassas, a senior economics major, received honorable mention for his poem "Freedom Can Only Be Felt While Staring at an Airport Departure Board," in the Va. Tech 2014 Steger Poetry contest.

Four Prince William County middle schools offering the IB Middle School Years Programme (Beville, Fred Lynn, Godwin, Stonewall) will be facing off in the third annual Battle of the Brains May 9.

The administrative recommendation on the boundary for the 12th high school in Prince William County VA has changed as a result of the public meetings held last week and feedback via email, telephone calls and conversations, according to a news release.