Bill Jones

Bill Jones started as a Science teacher at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in 2006. He became STEM Director in 2014 and has been a member of the Good Counsel faculty for 16 years. Under his leadership, GC students have graduated from prestigious engineering programs across the country, including Johns Hopkins, MIT, the California Institute of Technology, Virginia Tech, RIT, and the University of Maryland. Bill will retired from Good Counsel in June 2022.

Good Counsel’s STEM program introduces students to engineering through a nationally recognized, hands-on, project-based curriculum called Project Lead the Way (PLTW). For the fifth consecutive year, Good Counsel has been recognized as a Distinguished Project Lead the Way School—a distinction given to only 3% of qualified schools nationally. Students are admitted into the STEM Program prior to freshman year.

Bill attributes the program’s success to former science chair, Rick Miller. “Rick had the original vision for the GC STEM program,” said Bill. “Through his efforts, plans for the physical remodeling of our labs to create two STEM labs and the implementation of the course sequence were created.” Under Bill’s leadership, the program continues its elite status, as one of only two schools in Maryland to receive the PLTW distinction each of the past four years. Adorning the walls in Bill’s STEM lab are the names of every graduate since the program began, which has seen graduates earn 95 academic scholarships totaling $4.4 million.

Scholarship

The Bill Jones STEM Scholarship was established by friends and former STEM students to honor the legacy of STEM Director, Bill Jones. The scholarship supports under-represented minority students accepted into the STEM program with demonstrated financial need as determined by FACTS.

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