BCPSfest Coming To White Marsh Mall

NOTTINGHAM, MD — Baltimore County Public Schools is celebrating the upcoming school year with "BCPSfest" this weekend near the White Marsh Mall. Entertainment will include the Perry Hall Gators marching band, Overlea High School choir, Eastern Tech varsity cheerleaders and more.

Sponsored by The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools, BCPSfest will provide family friendly activities and resources.

There will be dozens of booths set up with visitors from the community and the school system, including a school bus from the transportation department and a picture booth from the college and career readiness folks. Community partners will provide everything from "animal guests" visiting from the Irvine Nature Center to a princess or king from Medieval Times to a wind tunnel from iFly.

The first 250 students to visit at least 10 booths will receive a small free gift pack of school supplies.

These booths will be set up by Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), according to a release from BCPS:

• Alumni – pennants for sale, $5 each
• Career and Technology Education – robotics, 3D printing, simulated babies
• College and Career Readiness – goal-setting, picture booth
• Edgemere Elementary School – quiz game, drones
• English Language Arts – creating magnetic poetry
• Food and Nutrition Services – answering questions about school meals
• Health and Physical Education – rope jumping area and jump rope giveaway
• Library Media Programs – story time booth with local celebrity readers
• Magnet Programs – information about application process, options
• Mathematics – math games
• Mobile Innovation Lab – LEGO construction, circuitry, computer programming
• Music and Dance Education – Wheel of Dance, interactive music activity
• Parentmobile – mobile resource center
• Resource Centers for Families and Schools – selling learning materials
• Schoology - Department of Innovative Learning – registering parents with MyBCPS accounts
• Science – launching straw rockets
• Social Studies – maker space activity based on Ada’s Violin
• Transportation – bringing a school bus
• Visual Arts – printmaking bookmarks

These community partners will also have booths set up, BCPS reports:

• Aetna Better Health – corn hole game, information, giveaways
• Adventure Dental, Vision, and Ortho
• Baltimore County Health Department – WIC and energy assistance programs
• Baltimore County Police Department, White Marsh – goggles to experience impairment
• Baltimore County Public Library Bookmobile
• Baltimore County Public Library, White Marsh branch
• Charley’s Grilled Subs – food vendor
• Chick-fil-A – food vendor
• Colgate-Palmolive Dental Van – dental screening, free toothbrushes
• Dave & Busters – food vendor
• Every Locker – printing and selling t-shirts
• Fire Museum of Maryland – bringing antique 1949 Mack fire engine
• First Financial Federal Credit Union – book giveaway and reading nook
• Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum
• iFly Baltimore – building parachutes with a wind tunnel simulator
• Irvine Nature Center – nature crafts, animal guests
• Maryland 529 – information about saving for college
• Medieval Times – bringing a princess or king
• Patient First – medical information, giveaways
• R.S.V.P. – Retired Senior Volunteer Program – volunteer opportunities for seniors and schools

BCPSfestival will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25, on the lower parking lot at Boscov’s at White Marsh Mall, 8200 Perry Hall Boulevard.

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