Media Advisory

Fifty students from 12 Baltimore-area public and private high schools will attend "Securing the Future," a conference featuring lectures by professors, politicians, first-responders and others in the field of homeland security. Students will divide into discussion groups to devise plans to institute homeland security awareness programs in their communities and then create a proposal for how to improve homeland security in Maryland. They will then present their plans to a panel of Maryland security officials who will evaluate and consider the students' suggestions. The conference will also give students the opportunity to talk to Johns Hopkins admissions counselors as well as job recruiters from homeland security and intelligence agencies. The conference is organized by Johns Hopkins undergraduates.

Participating schools include Baltimore City College, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Pikesville High School, Lansdowne High School, Park School, St Paul's School, McDonogh School, St. Francis Academy, Forest Park High School, Friends School, Patterson High School, and Calvert Hall College High School.

Scheduled to speak on Friday
9:30 a.m.	Rep. Benjamin Cardin, 3rd District
11 a.m.	Adam Stolz, emergency planner, and Richard McKoy, director, the Baltimore Office of Emergency Management
1:30 p.m.	Steven David, director of the International Studies Program at Johns Hopkins
3 p.m.	Rodney Giamocenlli, Baltimore City Police Intelligence Unit
Scheduled to speak on Saturday
9 a.m.	Del. Robert Zirkin, 11th District
11 a.m.	William Goodwin, chief of the Baltimore City Fire Department and Johns Hopkins alumnus
2 p.m.	Christa-Marie Singleton, chief medical director for the Baltimore City Health Department's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
6 p.m.	Dennis R. Schrader, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security

For information, contact Sarah David at SecuringTheFuture@jhu.edu or (410) 294-2013.