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Haunted House
Wednesday, October 29, Electrical Construction & Engineering will host their annual Haunted House.
Location: Edison High School, 5801 Franconia Rd, Alexandria, VA
👻Enter At Your Own Risk Through Door 13 🪦
The event is open to the community from 4pm-9pm with a cost of just $1!
All Students Must Be Accompanied By An Adult!
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End of the Quarter
🎃 Friday, October 31, is the last day of the first quarter, and a two-hour early release for students so please plan accordingly.
Here are important changes for the day:
- Our AM and midday shuttles (periods 1 and 3) will run at normally scheduled times
- There will be NO AM shuttle for Annandale, Lake Braddock or West Springfield
- There will be NO shuttles for our PM classes (period 5)
- Non-Edison students in Cosmetology should not report to their academy class
If your school is having an altered schedule on this date and a period 1 or 3 student elects to remain at their base school,
- the student should email their Academy teacher to inform them they are remaining at their base school due to an altered schedule.
- A parent/guardian must also report their child’s absence. They can do this one of three ways:
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- parent calls our attendance line at 703-924-8137 to report the absence,
- the parent sends an email to edisonacademy.attendance@fcps.edu. Students enrolled with us in period 5 classes are not required to have their parent/guardian contact our attendance line,
- Use ParentVue to report a student's all-day absence.
Around the Academy
Thank you to Hatzel & Buehler for donating items to our Electrical Construction program. These donations help students with hands-on learning.
If you are interested in donating items or money to the academy, please contact Sarah Hinkhouse at snhinkhouse@fcps.edu.
Or if you are interested in donating to future job shadowing field trips, please click here.
Grooming lab is open and this week the Veterinary Science students in Mrs. Akau's classes were doing the hands-on learning.
Level one students in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning along with Electrical Construction and Engineering are currently preparing for their OSHA-10 Certification (Occupational Safety and Health Administration).
This week, they participated in an on-site safety observation as part of their OSHA 10 Construction Industry “Struck-By and Caught-Between Hazards” module. They observed an active construction site where new townhomes are being built near Edison Academy.
The visit provided a firsthand look at site clearing and utility disconnection in progress. Students observed crews from KC Johnson and Kesterson AC & Plumbing (Mount Vernon) as they performed gas-line shutdowns and service disconnects while heavy equipment prepared the area.
During the training, students identified and discussed swing-radius hazards, equipment visibility, and safe-zone procedures used to prevent struck-by or caught-between incidents. This real-world experience reinforced classroom learning on construction-site awareness, PPE requirements, and hazard communication, all of which are helping students connect OSHA concepts directly to what they’ll encounter in the field.
Calendar
October
29 Haunted House - open to the public 4-9 PM
31 Early Release/End of 1st Quarter
November
3 Student Holiday - No School
4 Election Day - No School
11 Veterans Day - No School
26-28 Thanksgiving Break - No School
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