Parks cable show seeks teenage host

School board meets April 8 on High School Plus program

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. The auditions are between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Brookside Gardens Visitor’s Center Auditorium, 1800 Glenallan Avenue in Wheaton.

During the audition, the teenagers — ages 14 to 17 — will be screen-tested in front of CCM television cameras reading a preselected script from a teleprompter. The teenagers will also be asked to respond to the question: ‘‘Why do you like parks?”

After both auditions, the field will be narrowed to five finalists and county residents can vote online from May 1 to the 15th for the host. The winner will host the August and September episodes and can earn up to 100 student service hours — which are required for graduation — for working on the show.

Go to www.ParkStarSearch.com for more information.

School board meeting

The school board, along with Superintendent Jerry D. Weast, will discuss the system’s High School Plus program and education-related bills in the General Assembly when it meets April 8 in Rockville.

The meeting will begin 10 a.m. in the boardroom at the Carver Educational Services Center, 850 Hungerford Drive in Rockville. Call 301-279-3617, or go to www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org⁄boe for more information.

Open house

Montgomery College is hosting an enrollment fair and open house from 1 to 3 p.m., April 12 in the Theatre Arts Arena on its Rockville campus.

College officials will be there to answer questions; there will also be workshops about financial aid and admissions. An admissions information session will be given in Spanish, according to the college.

The college admissions office will be open and the application fee will be waived during the open house hours.

To register, send an e-mail to recruit@montgomerycollege.edu. Include the full names of those attending the open house. Call Maria Davidson at 240-567-5039 for more information about the Rockville campus. The campus address: 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville.

High school choices

The school system is asking families of seventh-graders who live in or go to middle school in the Northeast or Downcounty consortiums to attend an information meeting to learn about high school options and application programs.

The meeting to learn about high school options in the Northeast Consortium is 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., April 24 at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville.

Two meetings are scheduled for high school options in the Downcounty Consortium: One is on May 1 at Newport Mill Middle School in Kensington; the other is May 15 at Parkland Middle School in Rockville. Both meetings are from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Information will be presented in English and Spanish at all meetings. Call the school system’s Division of Consortia Choice and Application Program Services for more information. The number: 301-592-2040.

Coming up

The County Council’s education committee meets 9:30 a.m., April 7 with the school system to discuss its fiscal 2009 operating budget. The school system proposes $2.11 billion in spending. County Executive Isiah Leggett’s $4.3 billion budget proposal strips $51 million from the school system’s budget.

The education committee will meet in the seventh floor conference room, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville.