Clarksburg High School is a public high school located at 22500 Wims Road in Clarksburg, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

[edit] Soccer

Clarksburg has a very good soccer program considering the school is so young. The boys soccer team coached by Jeremiah Spoales made it to the state championships for their 2009 season. The boys are lead by Julio Arjona, Henry Reyes, Howie Fischer, Austin Fiedler,and Nicholas Civetti. The girls soccer team coached by Troy Bowers didn't make it quite as far, but are still a strong team. The girls are lead by Cassidy Pickles, Kelsey Kennel, Halle Conley, Lexy McCarty, and Kelly Beltre.

[edit] InvenTeam

The Clarksburg High School InvenTeam is one of 16 high school teams in the nation to receive grant funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The team presented its TorchCord(TM) invention at the March Madness for the Mind event in the National Museum of American History, part of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance's 13th annual meeting in Washington, DC. It will also travel to MIT in June for the Lemelson-MIT EurekaFest. For more information, visit the team website at http://www.cicmd.org.

[edit] Web Site

The Clarksburg High School Web Design Club maintains the school's site, at http://www.chsmd.net.

[edit] Track and Field

The coach can't even hit the warm-up laps but: The 2006-2007 outdoor track and field team had a very successful season with the boys ending with a 4 wins and 1 loss for the regular season and the girls team ending their regular season with 3 wins and 2 losses. It also sent many athletes to the Maryland State Championships despite the lack of a senior class. The 2007-2008 outdoor track and field team had another very successful season with the boys ending with a 6 wins and 0 losses for the regular season and the girls team ending their regular season with 6 wins and 0 losses. The 2008-2009 outdoor track team ended the year with an undefeated 6-0 record once again. Both the boys and the girls won the division. The boys won the 2A West Region while the girls placed second. In the state competition the boys finished first and became the school's first ever state championship team. In only three years of existence, Clarksburg has become a respected track team around the state.

[edit] Cross Country

Lead by the amazing Nicholas Carreti, the 2007-2008 cross country season was very successful for the both the boys and the girls, becoming Division III Champions with a record of 5-0. This may be the first time that a school has had its boys and girls cross country teams become Division Champions by its second year opened.

[edit] APPS Program

One of the new programs that has been established is the APPS Program, which stands for Advanced Placement Power Scholars Program. Members are required to take a certain amount of Advanced Placement classes, even 9th grade members. This program was modeled after Walter Johnson High School's APEX Program. By the end of a member's graduating year, they will have fulfilled an amount of at least 6 AP classes and taken the respective exam distributed by the college board for each class.

[edit] The Howl

The Howl, Clarksburg High School's student-run newspaper, is produced by a small but growing group of student writers and editors. The paper is supervised by English and journalism teacher Sara Goodman and comes out with an average of 6 issues per year. Link to Online Version: http://my.highschooljournalism.org/md/clarksburg/chs/index.cfm?eid=11318

The Paper's Website

[edit] Clarksburg High School Marching Coyotes

The Clarksburg High School Marching Band, with 65 members, made a trip to Shanghai, China to perform in a parade for the Shanghai Tourism Festival in the 2009–2010 school year, under the direction of Mr. Charles 'Chuck' Orifici.

[edit] Historical Significance