Members of the winning team, back row from left: Nick Wilbur, Stephen Dunn, Luke Churchill, Hanson Wang; front from left, Thomas Churchill, Emily Yue, Thomas Thornton, Ruth Swallow.

Updated Sunday, 6:09 p.m.
RALEIGH – Davidson I.B. Middle School’s eighth grade team bested a dozen other teams Saturday to win the North Carolina Region championship in the 2010 Future City Competition, held at the N.C. State University’s Talley Student Center. It was the third straight year the school won the event, which is organized by professional engineers as part of National Engineers Week.

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The Davidson Day boys basketball team took on the defending state champs and nationally-ranked team from United Faith at a home game Friday.  The Patriots led at half-time, but could not match the Falcons height and execution.  The game ended with a 54-46 win for United Faith.  Full story in sports, www.davidsonnews.net/sports

School-level geography bees were held across the country in January, including at Bailey Middle and Woodlawn.  Find out about the local “geo bee” winners below.

In other news, did you know a new state law has updated the curriculum for how sex ed is taught to 7th-9th graders?  That was part of the discussion at Tuesday’s workshop on talking to teens about sex.  We have a report below, plus a school events calendar listing Friday’s big hoops game at Davidson Day, Saturday’s defending champion IB team at the state Future Cities competition, and next week’s barefoot coaching of a boys game at Cannon. Read the full story

Rebecca Kuzmanovich (in the lead role of Sandy) and Tanner Colson (who plays Sandy's boyfriend Danny) rehearse a scene from "Grease," which opens Friday at Bailey Middle.

Spelling bee season is still in full swing and this week we bring news of Community School of Davidson’s first-ever bee, plus results from Friday’s CMS north bee.

Also this week we have a report on a special “partners in prevention” night at Bailey Middle that will feature a seminar for parents titled, “Speaking of Sex: How to talk with your middle and high school students.”

On the arts calendar, the musical “Grease” will be performed this weekend at Bailey Middle, with a cast of 51.

For sports fans, the basketball team at Davidson Day is getting ready to take on the nationally-ranked United Faith team from Charlotte.

We have reports on all that plus a full calendar of local school events. Read the full story

Madeleine Wright will represent Davidson Elementary at Friday's north district spelling bee for CMS.

Keep your fingers c-r-o-s-s-e-d Friday morning for the three local spellers at the CMS north district bee. We have a report on them below, along with application information for families pondering their many options for school assignments in the fall.  The CMS magnet lottery, which includes Davidson’s own International Baccalaureate Middle School, opens Friday.

Also read below about Davidson Day‘s first-ever Homecoming and the Olympic gold medalist who will be speaking at Bailey Middle’s National Junior Honor Society meeting. Read the full story

2009 was the Year of the High School for Davidson.

Davidson Day, a private prep school, graduated its first class of seniors  in the spring.  Community School of Davidson named its debut high school principal and launched a renovation that will lead to the opening of a high school wing in the fall. Meanwhile, at Davidson’s borders, a new public high school rose from the ground and, with no small amount of controversy, received the name of William A. Hough High.

Those were the top stories for 2009, a year which also saw new grades added to Woodlawn School, the Community School of Davidson and McKinney Academy, and lots of honors for local students and teachers. Read the full story

Volunteers in the "Toilet-trees" drive delivered donations to Ada Jenkins Center Dec. 18. (Bonnie Newell photo)

At this time of year, the spirit of giving prevails and churches, organizations and individuals throughout Davidson are doing their parts. We don’t hear about all of them, but here are a couple that have come to our attention: That “Toilet-trees” drive for Ada Jenkins Center last week produced several carloads of personal items – from paper towels to diapers to home cleansers. And the Angel Trees organized by Davidson police and firefighters again this year will ensure that some of our less fortunate neighbors will have a little something under the tree on Christmas morning. Read the full story