DATE: Friday, October 17, 1997              TAG: 9710160723

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HONOR ROLL

NORFOLK

The National Science Foundation has given the Cooperating Hampton Roads Organizations for Minorities in Engineering, or CHROME, a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

The award was made in Washington in September. CHROME was founded in 1983 as a volunteer network of public schools and colleges, businesses and industry, government and professional associations to help underrepresented minority and female students pursue careers in science, math, engineering and related fields. It's housed in Old Dominion University's College of Engineering and Technology.

Old Dominion University has tapped Mary Beth Lakin as director of its Weekend College and Experiential Learning Program. She previously has worked at colleges in Alabama and California, and herself was a returning adult student like many who take the weekend classes.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Strawbridge Elementary School is the only school in the city to be designated an Exemplary Technology Practices School in the Elementary Division by the Virginia Department of Education. It is one of 12 schools so honored this year for integration of technology education into the total school curriculum.

REGIONAL

Four local teachers have been named state finalists in the 1998 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, a joint program of the White House and the National Science Foundation. The local finalists are: Alice Koziol, a math teacher at Chesapeake's E.W. Chittum Elementary School; Gail Englert, a math teacher at Sewells Point Elementary School in Norfolk; Sharon Bowers, a science teacher at Virginia Beach's Kemps Landing Magnet School; and Patricia Maturo, a science teacher at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach.

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