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About the Magnet

Welcome to the STEM Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School.

In 1985, Montgomery County Public Schools opened its Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program within Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Magnet Program is designed to offer accelerated, interdisciplinary courses in science, mathematics, and computer science for highly able students particularly interested in these subjects.

Since Magnet students have a number of extra academic requirements, magnet students have an eight-period day, instead of the normal seven-period day of most county high school students.

Magnet students can (and do!) take full advantage of Blair's other extracurriculars such as athletics, student clubs, the school's bands and plays, and other activities.

MAGNET ACHEIVEMENTS

AcheivementYear
30-50% of seniors annually awarded National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists-
Davidson Fellowship Winners2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2024
US Presidential Scholar Winners2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 & 2022
Twenty-seven Regeneron Scholars2019-2025
Gold or Silver Medalists, International Physics Olympiad2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2018
Gold Medalist, International Biology Olympiad2025
Gold Medalist, International Chemistry Olympiad2024
Gold Medalist, European Girls Olympiad in Informatics2021
Putnam Fellow2021
It’s Academic Champion2017-2019
Top student in the UMD Mathematics Competition2015-2023
Top three finshers NYU Tanden School of Engineering cybersecurity competition (winners in 2017 & 2019)2016-2019