Arlington speller falls in the third in national bee

Arlington speller falls in the third in national bee

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Kids like pirates. But they typically don’t know them by the name “picaroon.” That’s the word that Arlington’s Jacob Williams was asked to spell in the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday. Unfortunately, he replaced the...
Building diversity in engineering

Building diversity in engineering

BALTIMORE–The engineering field is failing in diversity. That was the opening message at “Priming the Pipeline: The Push for Diversity at Engineering Schools” Thursday at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference. In 2013, African-Americans made up...