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Falls Church Business News & Notes
New Nursing School Opens
The Arizona College of Nursing opened a Falls Church campus on January 3 with its first class of 22 nursing students. This comes at a time when there is a shortage of nurses in the metropolitan area and nation-wide. The college reports that the expansion gives them the capacity to admit top-notch students they’ve had to turn away. The 22 students will focus first on general education courses, then add nursing coursework. The inaugural class will graduate after the spring 2024 semester.
Tax Workshops for Businesses
The Small Business Administration – Virginia District Office, in collaboration with the IRS, will host a series of workshops this month. These workshops could be beneficial to members who are just starting out in business. February 9 addresses Federal Taxes and Your Business; February 17 addresses Schedule C for Sole Proprietors; and February 25 addresses Deductions for Home Office Use. The events are free, and participants need to register to attend at www.sba.gov/events.
Spotlight on ViaPath Technologies
The Washington Business Journal published a spotlight on ViaPath Technologies of Falls Church which provides communications products and services for people who are incarcerated. Formerly called Global Tel Link, ViaPath started over 30 years ago providing phones at corrections facilities to be used by incarcerated people to call home. On Jan. 4, the company underwent a major rebranding spearheaded by CEO Deb Alderson, entailing a new $5 million focus on reentry education and workforce training and connections for incarcerated people. ViaPath Technologies started offering computer tablets in 2013, and the pandemic brought a skyrocketing need for such products to facilitate video calls, since many facilities closed for in-person visitors. The company offers them for free to 99 percent of its clients, and it’s preparing to deploy 600,000 more through the end of 2022.
BAE Systems, Inc. Earns Top Score
BAE Systems, Inc. announced that it received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. This is the third consecutive year and fifth time overall that the company has earned the top score and been designated as one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality. BAE Systems, Inc. joins the ranks of more than 840 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this year.
Cognosante President James Gordon Named to 2022 Wash100
James Gordon, president of Cognosante, has been selected to receive Executive Mosaic’s 2022 Wash100 Award for his efforts to steward the company’s pursuit of contract opportunities in the federal sector and offering thought leadership in the customer experience framework. He joined Cognosante, a health technology company, in March 2019 to hold the newly created role of president and works alongside founder and CEO Michele Kang. In his capacity, Gordon spearheads the Falls Church, Virginia-based contractor’s overall strategic direction and growth as well as oversees the day-to-day operations of the company.
Business News & Notes is compiled by Elise Neil Bengtson, Executive Director of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at elise@fallschcurchchamber.org.
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Falls Church School News & Notes
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Scholastic Bowl Ties For Season Champs
Scholastic Bowl took on William Monroe this week for 1st place. Meridian split matches with their opponents leading to co-regular season champions. The team is scheduled to compete in the Regional VHSL tournament tonight at Maggie Walker HS.
Meridian Wrestling Celebrates Seniors
This year the team graduated eight seniors who are an important part of the wrestling team. Edward Kennedy is 22-1, and Justin Cerullo is 9-4 this season and are both captains and excellent leaders of the wrestling team. In addition on the team: Jackson Reitmeyer 12-9, Jason Mcinerney 9-7, Emmett Wood 9-6, Tobias Senderowitsch 1-4, Jose Giovanni Castaneda Solis 7-8, and Alex Rios 12-9.
MHS is sending big congratulations to the senior wrestlers. The program is proud of all their accomplishments for their entire time on the wrestling team but especially this season: “We appreciate your time and dedication to the sport and wish you all the best for the remainder of this season and postseason. Go Mustangs!”
Boys Hoops Win Big Over Warren County
The Mustangs crushed Warren County 64-30 to improve to 3-2 in the district, led by Duncan Miller with 16 and Wyatt Trundle with 13.
MHS Cyber Patriot Team Season Ends
On Friday, January 21, the Cyber Patriot Competition Ended for Meridian students. Before the session ended, two teams competed in the Gold and Sliver TIERs of the National Semifinals. The teams had to defend and virtual network and find/fix security risks on Windows and Linux systems. Although these two teams are new to the Cyberpatriots club, their hard work helped them advance. MHS wishes congratulations to Team Mario Kart with juniors — Annalise Levitt, Clara Kasik, Chloe Calabrese, Isabel Costa, Anna Dickson, Mia Mayer, and Team Super Mario with juniors — Nate Berol, Jaden Shin, Rani Altarazi, Thomas Gallaway, Yuancheng Lin, and sophomore Will Kroboth.
Division-Wide GIVE Day Recap
For the first time in FCCPS history, students K-12 participated in GIVE Day, all together on the secondary campus! Students got to choose GIVE Day as their Approaches to Learning “Service as Action” lesson for the day. 200 elementary students packed 1096 Power Packs for Food for Others (cumulative total more than 10,000 Power Packs since the inception of GIVE Day), while also organizing a children’s book drive for immigrants and recent Afghan refugee families, creating community art (look out for painted rocks throughout the community) and making animal chew toys for Lost Dog and Cat Animal Rescue. 300 middle schoolers and high schoolers packed 30,000 meals headed to Haiti with Rise Against Hunger. Since the start of this partnership in 2017, Henderson Middle School has packed 164,000 meals – the most meals packed of any school in Virginia!
Meridian GIVE Day Club hosted an “Ignite: Service as Action” panel with distinguished non-profit leaders Max Levitt of Leveling the Playing Field, Mel Gold of DC Central Kitchen, and Falls Church residents Maralee Gutiérrez of Comunidad, and Rebecca Tax with Food Justice DMV inspiring over 60 students in grades 8-12 29 students, parents, and community members came by to donate blood with INOVA’s Bloodmobile. Each unit donated saves 3 lives!
All the GIVE Day participants are grateful for the generosity of our many individual donors as well as corporate sponsors: Badd Pizza, Baroody Camps, Chipotle, Clare and Don’s, Clark Construction, Focal Point Homes, Parabilis, Scramble and Zimmerman Homes.
EIGHT SENIORS celebrated their last wrestling match of the season and their high school careers this
week. (Photo: Kish Rafique)
Stay Up To Date with FCCPS Via Podcast
FCCPS has added podcast streaming services to the list of ways to stay connected and informed with the school system. Falls Church City School Board Meetings, presentations and performances will now be available for you to stream from your podcast service of choice: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, RadioPublic, and Castbox, and as an RSS feed. Subscribe today to listen to recordings directly in your podcast app at your convenience.
Henderson 8th Grader Community Projects
8th graders have been working on the MYP Community Project in FleX during the fall semester. Students have engaged in a sustained, in-depth inquiry approach focused on service and action to develop an awareness of needs in the community and address them through service learning. Some of the projects have included raising money for various charitable organizations by holding bake sales and other fundraisers, running a collection drive for toiletries for the homeless, cleaning up parks and streams, raising awareness about LGBTQ+ needs in the community, organizing and supporting the transition of 5th graders to middle school and raising awareness about mental health issues for teens. Students will share their projects in a virtual showcase and the Husky Herald.
Creating Electronic Music Thanks to Grant
Guitar and IB Music students are creating music in digital audio workstations (DAW) as part of their new curriculum. The Falls Church Education Foundation has graciously funded several stations in the MHS music technology lab utilizing the software Ableton with microphones, speakers, electric guitars, drumset, amplifiers and Apple computers. Students are learning production and composition techniques which include performing, composing and recording their own contemporary music styles.
MHS IB Visual Artists Light Box Creations
In the IB Visual Arts class at Meridian, students learned about the history of the art of paper cutting, originating back to the 2nd century CE China, and the different cultures that have incorporated cut paper artwork into their celebrations. Ms. Sarah Gurgo then challenged the students to create celebratory cut paper lightboxes. They were required to use three layers, to show movement, pattern, or repetition and focus on the celebration theme. As this was a new form and technique, the students were knowledgeable, open-minded, and risk-takers. IB student Adin Smith said of the project: “I’ve often explored new 2D mediums to include in my artworks, but 3D forums have been foreign to me for quite some time. With the Layers of Light project, I not only experienced a new artistry technique but also discovered a fresh way to tell stories through my artwork. As a writer, it is one of the most important aspects of art to me. With my paper box, I was able to convey a tale of desperation, one of longing between star-crossed— quite literally— lovers: the moon and the water.”
Learning About Skeletal Systems
In Ms. Kish Rafique’s IB Biology Year 2 class, students dissected sheep hearts as one of the required skills to be able to recognize the valves, chambers, and blood vessels of the heart. Students use the sheep heart and pipe cleaners to show the circulation of blood from various vessels to valves and chambers. This hands-on experience makes it easier to grasp the circulatory system mechanics. The chicken wing lab is the first of many in Human Anatomy and Physiology class. The chicken wings are used to comprehend antagonist muscle groups.
