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PDA's College Center is pleased to share that Lorrine Evans, 2010 has earned a full academic Mathematics Major scholarship - including books, fees and living expenses to Hampton University which has one of the largest endowments of any university in the country. Congratulations to Lorrine and her family.

PDA's Eric McKnight has made it official, signing a National Letter of Intent to continue his studies and play Division 1 basketball at Iowa State University.

This is the second consecutive year that PDA has sent a student-athlete to the prestigious Big 12 Conference.

Last year NPSAA All-American Jon Underwood signed with the University of Missouri where he maintained a 3.1 GPA during his freshman year.

PDA's Cheer Squad, which won the regional championships in Richmond, Virginia moved one step closer to a national title winning the Mid-West Intermediate Varsity

championship downing 275 teams from across the country.

Congratulations to PDA's Cheer Squad for such an incredible achievement in just their first year of competing for the Storm!

PDA COLLEGE CENTER NEWS - ACCEPTANCE UPDATES

Amanda Randolph, 2010 worked with PDA's College Center and earned early acceptance and a scholarship to prestigious Seton Hall University in Orange, New Jersey and St. John's University in Queens, New York where she will study alongside Rhodes, Truman, and Fulbright Scholars.

The PDA College Center is pleased to share that Joshua Byrd, Valedictorian of PDA's Class of 2010 has been accepted to Penn State University's College of Engineering.

PDA's senior class boasts just 15 students and remarkably, Joshua is the 5th member of the Class of 2010 to be accepted to Penn State. Congratulations to his family and to Josh on continuing PDA's 100% college acceptance rate!

The PDA College Center is pleased to share that Gabirelle Davis, 2010 has been accepted to Clark Atlanta University in Georgia.

Gabrielle is a member of PDA's 2009-10 championship Cheer Squad and also performs with PDA's Liturgal Dancers.

Congratulations to her family and to Gabrielle on continuing PDA's 100% college acceptance rate!

The PDA College Center is pleased to share that Sarah Fadairo, 2010 has been accepted to prestigious Penn State University.

A member of PDA's 2009-10 championship Cheer Squad who performs with PDA"s Liturgal Dancers, Sarah was also accepted at University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Virginia Union Uinversity in Richmond.

Congratulations to her family and to Sarah on continung PDA's 100% college acceptance rate!

CONGRATULATIONS TO PDA's CLASS OF 2010

PDA's Class of 2010 (several pictured left at their prom) continues PDA's 100% college acceptance rate tradition.

A powerhouse unit of 15 high-achieving graduates, the Class of 2010 earned scholarships and acceptance to leading schools across the country including Penn State, Seton Hall, Iowa State, St. John's, Spelman, UMBC, Mt. St. Mary's, Indiana, UMES, Clark Atlanta, Hampton, George Washington, York, California, Missouri, Texas Southern, Hartford, Delaware State, Voorhees, Nyack, Elmira and many, many others.

PDA'S CHASTITY MORRIS ACCEPTED TO FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY

The College Center is pleased to share that Chastity Morris, 2010 has been accepted to Fairmont State University in West Virginia.

Chastity was the captain of PDA's championship Cheer Squad and will be a perfect fit for the Eagles who last year won the NCAA championship in Competitive Cheerleading.

Congratulations to Chasity and her family on continuing PDA's 100% college acceptance rate.

PDA'S ERIC FREEMAN WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY

The College Center is pleased to share that Eric Freeman, 2010 has been accepted to the prestigious Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University in Queens, New York.

Eric's outstanding high school career resulted in him receiving the annual Academic Achievement Award from St. Johns' Scholarship Committee.

Congratulations to Eric and his family on continuing PDA's 100% college acceptance rate.

PDA SETTLES IN ON HIGH-TECH BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND CAMPUS

Maryland's first all-digital high school is now located in Beltsville, Maryland on a new, high-tech campus setting alongside one of America's most dynamic ministries.

The Storm will continue to provide daily shuttle service from the Greenbelt metro and PDA's digital makeover including interactive digital Smart Boards in every classroom, an award-winning curriculum, textbooks on flash-drives, a student body outfitted with the latest net-books, tablets and laptop computers, Wi-Fi, PDA's comprehensive Internet, cloud-based school management system and our informative daily blog will remain as keys to PDA's acclaimed 100% college acceptance rate.

Kanu Aja - College of San Francisco

Bryan Akinkugbe - Columbia State

Jalen Bowe - Louisburg College

Deanna Braxton - Potomac State Coll

Jasmine Chambers - Garrett College

Kevin Cutler - Xavier University

Cortez "Tre" Duncan - High Point U

Bria Edwards - St. John's University

Vashil Fernandez - Valparaiso U

Tessa Frazier - Bowie State U

Matthew Gorski - U of Illinois Chicago

Alexander Hazelwood - Robert Morris

Christian Leach - Missouri W. Plains

Stephane Manga - Salt Lake City College

Alexander Semidey - Virginia State U

Kareem Story - University of Utah

McCall Tomeny - Loyola U-New Orleans

Photo - Courtesy of Min. Stacy Smith

VISIT PDA'S NEWEST SITES

COME VISIT US - OPEN HOUSE ON FEBRUARY 23rd at 7:00 PM!!

With international students from across the globe, PDA has educated high-achieving scholars from China, England, France, Africa, Scotland, The Cayman Islands, Jamaica, the Ukraine, Serbia, Russia, the Czech Republic and more!

SECOND QUARTER REPORT CARDS ARE IN - 74% MAKE HONOR ROLL

The results tell the story of an entire school body hard at work. We see students who are up late into the night on our Cloud-based school management system and who are pushing the envelope on excellence, success and achievement. Nearly 75% of the school earned first quarter Honors Status including:

Scholars of Note at 3.0 GPA and above: Essence Brown - 10th grade, Alexus Davis - 12th grade, Jace Ebanks - 10th grade, Jerrod Lemon - 12th grade, Jamaal Miller - 11th grade, Avondre Nixon - 10th grade, Emmanuel Orji - 9th grade, Elizabeth Pope - 12th grade, Gerald Rodriguez - 11th grade, Phillip Roy, II - 10th grade, Breanna Savoy - 12th grade, Cleve Stewart - 12th grade, Tyonna Turner - 12 grade, Jamaal Williams - 12th grade

3.15 - School-Wide GPA

In our toughest year yet with a demanding new curriculum, small class sizes, textbooks on convenient flashdrives, state-of-the-art digital smart boards in every classroom, laptop connectivity for all students, fully-degreed instructors, structured, disciplined teaching and learning and scholars from across the globe, PDA continues to produce the best and brightest with a dynamic, accelerated-pace academic program.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT PDA'S NEW BLOG!!

Updated daily with the latest on all things PDA, the Storm's new blog features daily updates on assignments, tests, quizzes, homework and information on our weekly themes, Scholars of the Week, PDA Fridays, sports and club updates and all the news you can use on the high achieving student scholar experience at PDA.

PDA SENIORS FEATURED ON FOX MORNING NEWS

Alexus Davis and Elizabeth Pope (pictured above l & r) - seniors in PDA's Ecology class - were featured on Fox5 DC's popular morning news segment, Ask The Weather Guys. Click the Atlantic Ocean Waves picture at right for exclusive video.

Allese Morrison, 2012 has been accepted to her school of choice, North Carolina A&T University. She has also earned acceptance to Delaware State University.

Allese, who earned 4.0+ GPA for the first academic advisory is a member of the Lady Storm basketball team and is also President of PDA's senior class.