Girls Basketball: Harmony's Paige Williamson Helps Winchester Rising Stars Take AAU D2 National Title

(July 12, 2012) - Harmony's Paige Williamson, slated to play at Woodgrove High School in the future, helped her 6th grade AAU girls basketball travel team, the Winchester Rising Stars, to a Division II National Championship in Franklin, Tenn. against 47 other teams from around the nation. 

The team coached by Tamara Green and Kevin Reed, went 7-0 overall and defeated the Indiana Hoosier Elite in the title game 34-32. Williamson was a key defensive player for the Stars.


Winchester won the semifinal game,42-41 in double overtime over North Georgia Heat and defeated Tennessee A-Game 39-32 in the quarterfinal match-up.

News: 8 Loudoun Teams to Compete at World 'Odyssey of the Mind' Tournament

(April 23, 2012) - Students from Loudoun County Public Schools made an extraordinary showing at the Odyssey of the Mind Virginia State Finals on April 14 at Menchville High School in Newport News. Eight teams from Loudoun County will advance to World Finals May 23-27 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

J. Michael Lunsford Middle School team is headed to
the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in Iowa.

The trip to the World competition does not come cheap -- the J. Michael Lunsford Middle School team estimates that it will take $15,000 for the students to make the trip. They are seeking sponsors for the trip. Learn more on their Facebook page.

The teams representing Loudoun County’s Regions 14 and 16 are:

Art News: Harmony Intermediate 9th Grader on "GMA" Friday

(Nov. 12, 2009) - Charlie Beggs, a ninth-grader at Harmony Intermediate School, will be featured on “Good Morning America” on Friday, November 13th, to discuss a work of art that began as a class project.

As an assignment in Kristen Hepner's eighth grade English class, Beggs created a claymation book trailer for a favorite book,“Looking Glass Wars” by Frank Bedder. To ensure that his teacher could view his work, Beggs posted his video on YouTube where the author happened to see it.

Bedder contacted Beggs and commissioned him to create a video for his new book, “Hatter M: Mad with Wonder.” Now a ninth-grader, Beggs will be visiting “Good Morning America” when Frank Bedder introduces his new book and premieres Beggs' video.

Here is Charlie's claymation book trailer