John Wilkes

Grant Spotlight: 2nd Cubing Club Competition

By |2022-03-02T14:52:14+00:00January 22nd, 2020|Spotlight - Grants|

The MLWGS Foundation proudly supported the Cubing Club's second World Cube Association (WCA) competition, which was held on January 18, 2020. Over 80 speed-solvers from Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina tested their skills under supervision from official WCA delegates. Cubing Club officers John Staley, Jacob Lee, Ryland Wilson, Ross George, and Uzair Bhatti organized the event along with club sponsor John Wilkes. Gifts to the 2019-20 Annual Fund support everything we do.

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Grant Spotlight: John Marshall House

By |2022-03-02T15:18:03+00:00October 1st, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

A grant from the MLWGS Foundation covered the entry fee to the John Marshall house for Mr. Wilkes' Historiography students at the end of September.  John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, built the house in what is now downtown Richmond and lived there for 45 years until his death in 1835.  In his role as Chief Justice, he was instrumental in shaping the Supreme Court into what it is today,

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Grant Spotlight: AP Prep

By |2019-05-06T15:46:11+00:00May 6th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

It's never a bad thing to be the people who make there be pizza.  We recently provided an enhancement grant to feed students attending Mr. Wilkes' last AP prep session before the test.  It ended up feeding a multitude!  From Mr. Wilkes: "I want to thank you on behalf of all the students.  The pizzas not only fed my group but we were able to share with Mr. Brown’s AP class which was also here

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