On November 11, 2019, Mr. Bruce Ryan, Upper School Leadership Instructor, was the recipient of Gerstell Academy's first Veteran of the Year Award. Mr. Ryan received this award during Gerstell Academy's Annual Veterans Day Ceremony.

My name is Chet Machamer and I am a Gerstell Academy Class of 2012 Alumnus.

Each year in October, Carroll Community Hospital hosts an inspirational afternoon in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

This is Tyler Rieth’s first year as the Instrumental Music Director at Gerstell Academy. For almost 30 years, he has been involved in some way, shape, or form with music.

The Gerstell Academy Oaks and Seedlings Program is the partnering of older students (Oaks) to younger students (Seedlings) in mentoring relationships in the Middle and Upper Schools. A special relationship happened as a result of the Oaks and Seedlings program between Kimberly Lapidario (Class of 2018) and her "grand oak," Meghan Sova-Williams (Class of 2012). 

We are very pleased to welcome Ms. Angela Sugg to our Upper School History Department this year. Ms. Sugg taught school for 30 years in the Howard County Public School system and served as Department Chair for 18 of those years. 

Casey Gruber, a Class of 2014 Gerstell graduate, is a senior at Northwestern University pursuing a Masters Degree in prosthetics and orthotics.

Mrs. Sabad, a veteran teacher in her first year at Gerstell Academy teaching middle school English, is energized by her students daily.

The baseball field has been dedicated to the memory and honor of Smith brothers Henry, Michael and Julian Smith. 

Freshman Zavian Valedon exercises Leadership Principle #6 during Rubik's Cube Competition.

Erin Brockmeyer, Gerstell Class of 2016, utilizes her leadership training and other skills developed at Gerstell Academy in her role with the Towson University Figure Skating Team. 

Hannah Seeley, Gerstell Academy Class of 2016, ttributes her success in college and ROTC to the lessons she learned as a student at Gerstell.

Nine Gerstell Academy students and two chaperones participate in educational sessions at MarineLab in Key Largo, Florida.

For the past four years, Mr. Daniel Gourley has taught Leadership to sixth and eighth grade students at Gerstell Academy. He is no stranger to teaching as he has been working in the educational field for the past twenty-two years.

Laura Wasserman came to Gerstell Academy on her birthday last August to be our Lower School Administrative Assistant.

Falcons athletics celebrates senior student athletes making their public announcements of commitment to compete at the college level on April 16, 2019.

Katherine Sylva, Class of 2016, continues to flourish while attending the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Elizabeth Chagalis, Class of 2022, was selected as one of 14 recipients in the United States to receive the 2019 National Spanish Exam Global Citizen Scholarship.

Amy Morrow Funk, Head of Gerstell's Lower School, accepted the 2019 VFW Teacher of the Year award on behalf of the Gerstell Academy community during a recent Leadership Circle.

Ten students with an interest in pursuing medical careers observed a live Trans-Aortic Valve Replacement surgery earlier this week.

Jana Dubinovsky, Class of 2020, has been awarded the National Spanish Exam Junior Travel Study Abroad Scholarship.

Gerstell Academy senior and current varsity athlete, Max Friedman, has been selected by the Maryland State Athletic Directors' Association (MSADA) as the male recipient of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Student-Athlete Scholarship Award.

Jenna Marcus, Class of 2015, is a Senior Mechanical Engineering major at the University of Maryland.

The Gerstell community joined together last week to compete and improve their community by participating in a charity basketball tournament to benefit Ronald McDonald House.

On February 23 my mom, Nurse Valedon, and I traveled down to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to volunteer at two amazing organizations: Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) and One World Surgery.

Kathy Seymour has been a part of Gerstell Academy for four years as an All School Receptionist.

Thirty-four members of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH/Spanish Honor Society) enjoyed a sponsored trip to the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C.

Peter Ensor, Gerstell Academy Class of 2016, is currently a junior at University of North Carolina Charlotte studying mechanical engineering with a concentration in motorsports.

Gerstell's FIRST Lego League Team, the 8 Bit Bosses, won the 2nd Place Core Values Award at the Roboquake on the Lake FLL Qualifier on January 26, 2019.

Joanna Stoltz is in her fourth year of teaching sixth and seventh grade English at Gerstell Academy.

Gerstell's First Tech Challenge (FTC) Team. led by Ms. Meghan Jothen and Mr. Butch Hilliard, competed in a Howard County Qualifier at Oakland Mills High School on Sunday, February 17th.

Matthew Burdyck, a junior at Gerstell Academy, has won the 2019 Bertie Green Junior Travel Award.

Gerstell Academy sophomore, Kate Maerten won first place in the Regional Poetry Out Loud Competition.

On Saturday, February 2nd, the Gerstell Academy’s Speech and Debate Club Navy Team won the Regional High School Ethics Bowl.

Gerstell Academy senior and current student body president, Antonio Holland has known since middle school that he wanted to join a military service academy or attend college via the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program. This desire to push himself to his limits and serve our country certainly comes as no surprise to Gerstell teachers and classmates who have known Antonio since he became a Falcon way back in the second grade.

Mrs. Heather Snider joined Gerstell Academy in 2004 as the founding Director of our Before and Aftercare Child Care Program, developing it into the success it is today. In 2010, acting on her passion for teaching children, Mrs. Snider taught Intermediate Science and assumed additional responsibilities such as substitute teaching.