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Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter is a 6-5 favorite in the morning line for the 147th Preakness, where he will try to reclaim his status as the top horse in this year’s 3-year-old class. Epicenter went off as the Derby favorite and appeared in perfect position to win until 80-1 long shot Rich Strike passed him shortly before they hit the wire. The 1-2 finishers were on track for a Preakness rematch until Rich Strike’s owner, Rick Dawson, announced the Derby champion would skip the $1.65-million race in favor of resting up for the Belmont Stakes.

A new technology center in Montgomery County celebrated its grand opening Saturday. The ignITe Hub is intended to serve as a place for business owners, students, and life-long learners to get IT training and access to state-of-the-art technology. Located on Montgomery College’s Rockville Campus, the ignITe Hub will be where community members “can grow their technology and coding skills, learn to create apps, collaborate to solve problems and create or improve existing products and services,” according to a statement from Montgomery County Council.

There’s a saying among oceanographers that the bigger your ship, the better your research. The Annapolis-based Ocean Research Project would like to prove that adage wrong. Saturday at City Dock, the nonprofit commissioned its newest research vessel, the R/V Marie Tharp, a 72-foot, steel-hulled sailboat named for a 20th century marine cartographer who received little credit for her work mapping the ocean floor and developing the theory of continental drift. Because of arcane rules forbidding women onboard ships, Tharp did much of her groundbreaking work on land while her research partners took credit. Her namesake, by contrast, will sail around the world.

Preakness may be a gathering centered around horse racing, but for Baltimore native Lacey Johansson, who has been attending festivities for decades, the hats steal the show. “I just liked the hats, and it’s a special day for Baltimore, and it’s the best day to be in Baltimore,” said Johansson, 42, who attended the pre-Preakness Black-Eyed Susan event as a toddler and grew up going to the horse races nearly every year. “It’s just a lot of fun to get dressed up and take the time to think about what you’re going to wear.”

Three firefighters entered a building that simulated a burning third-floor apartment fire. In the training exercise, Bryan Duvall douses the flames with a hose while Tiffany Huber and Riley Becker search for a missing firefighter. The rescuers’ vision is impaired as they grasp for their comrade, who lies limp on the floor. The downed firefighter’s mask is not working properly. It could be broken. Moving quickly, Huber and Becker replace the mask by the feel of their gloved hands and prepare to move the victim. Duvall joins them to lend support. The three start to drag the victim toward the stairwell.

Under Armour’s new global headquarters at Port Covington will sport a bold, five-story glass and timber cube wrapped in a polymer coating designed to glow at night. The new version shown by Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) Wednesday is significantly scaled back from what the sportswear giant originally envisioned when it started work on Port Covington seven years ago. The campus will have room for 1,500 workers, a fraction of the original 10,000-worker campus first projected by Under Armour when it was riding a corporate high.

What if in the next few years patients with cancer in their lungs or blood could sit in a chair, get an infusion of their own modified cells to wipe out their cancer and go home? Cancer researchers and doctors around the country are working on it — not only replacing rounds of toxic chemotherapy with the most advanced immunotherapies but also making the cutting edge treatments more readily accessible and even comfortable.