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Visitation Academy is the proud 2010 recipient of a Knott Foundation Education Grant. Promethean boards were just installed in our classrooms. This technology transformation in our classrooms will create a learner-centered, highly interactive environment that supports a multi-sensory approach to learning. The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation is a Catholic family foundation committed to honoring their founders’ legacy of generosity to strengthen our community and Catholic education.

Our Visitation Academy students participate in many competitions and contests throughout the school year. We are very proud of their accomplishments:

2011 Frederick County Science and Engineering Fair
- Visitation Academy only Catholic school in attendance
- Four times as many entrants as any other private school
- Visitation Academy population is less than 1% of Frederick County schools -- 15% of the entrants at Science Fair were Visitation Academy students
- Visitation Academy students received awards in 7 out of the 8 categories judged (88%)
- 73% of our entrants won at least one award -- 29 % won multiple awards
- Two Visitation Academy girls tied for overall Champion"Observational and Theoretical Design" -- competed with more than 100 Frederick County students to receive honor
- First Place Winner -- 1 student
- 2nd Place Winner -- 3 students
- 3rd Place -- 2 students
- Three honorable mentions
  - Two 2nd Place Winners -- Society of Women Engineers Award
  - Winner of the American Psychological Society Award
  - Two Winners -- U.S. Public Health Services Award
  - Two Champions -- Observational and Theoretical Design Award
Sixty percent of Visitation Academy middle school students qualified for the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth Talent Search
1st Place -- 2011 Best Oral Presentation -- National Engineer's Week Future City Competition
2011 Maryland State Winner 6th Grade -- Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Essay Contest "memoirs of Paul Revere" and Frederick County Winner for 5th and 7th grade
The Historical Society of Frederick County Student Contest 2010 Awards -- Harry L. Decker Historical Essay Contest -- 3 of the top 6 county-wide winners; one honorable mention
The Historical Society of Frederick County Student Contest 2010 Awards -- Richard Markey Memorial Poster Contest -- 2nd and 3rd place winners; two honorable mentions
First Place -- 2 students in the 2010 National Bible Association's Bible Bowl
2nd Place Winner -- College Park Aviation Museum Art Contest
Maryland Society for Educational Technology's Desktop Publishing Contest Winner/Poetry

Our rich curriculum offers students strong academics to fulfill their intellectual pursuits and direct them toward a faith-filled vision of life. In the classroom, we encourage them to build on their strengths and bolster areas that need improvement. Visitation Academy girls live by the Salesian virtues of kindness, gentleness, humility and thoughtful concern of others.

Our school community is an environment where members respect the uniqueness of one another and foster an inclusive and caring school campus. In the spirit of the Visitation Sisters, and the Salesian way, we guide our girls to become self-directed young women whose broad vision of life leads them to offer their gifts of mind and heart in service to those in need.

Our Visitation Academy traditions reinforce the sisterhood that is shared among our girls. Academic pursuits, spirituality and an outreach toward the community are woven into the fabric of the Visitation community. For our girls, school is their home away from home, where high standards, respect and caring, along with a deeper faith are characteristics nurtured and fostered each and every day.

“One kind word wins more willing service than a hundred harsh orders or stern reproofs.”
~ St. Francis de Sales

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