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Canon-McMillan Spotlight

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Here is a sampling of those who go above and beyond in the Canon-McMillan School District:

Lilly Harris, fourth-grade student at Muse Elementary School. Lilly’s artwork, “Blue Dog Can Cook,” won the Elementary Division at the Arts & Chocolate Spring Spectacular Show at the Community and Recreation Center at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair. This festival of chocolate, cultural performances and K-12 student art from Canon-McMillan, Peters Township, Upper St. Clair and Chartiers Valley schools, was held March 24. Lilly’s artwork was also on display at the Canon-McMillan High School Art Show on May 4.

Tom Nickovich received a $1,500 grant from the Gene HAAS Foundation to help fund the Robotics/Bots IQ project at the high school.

Reggie Hale was granted status as a Pennsylvania Registered School Business Specialist (PRSBA) from Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO). In order to be granted this PASBO Certificate, a school business official must meet the rigid personal, ethical and professional standards established by the program.

Canon-McMillan’s PIAA Wrestling Champion Logan Macri for winning the Gold Medal in the state wrestling finals in Hershey.

The North Strabane Intermediate School’s 5th-Grade Gifted Support Team won first-place at each of the Quiz Bowl and Wild Investigations at the Zoo competitions. Group leader was Mrs. Christine Sill.

Abigail Daniels, high school junior, was selected as a National Youth Delegate for the prestigious conference at George Mason University. Abby, as a student leader, will travel to Washington, D.C., for the highly-selective environment forum. She joins a select group of 300 students from across the country to participate in an intensive, week-long study of leadership in environmental science and conservation. Abby was chosen based on academic accomplishments and a demonstrated interest and excellence in leadership in the sciences and conservation studies.

Niko Borish, eighth-grader at Canonsburg Middle School, qualified for the state level National Geography Competition.

Audrey Karwowski, eighth-grader at Canonsburg Middle School, was named the 2018 Carson Scholar recipient. She will receive a $1,000 college scholarship as a result of her academic and volunteer accomplishments.

The North Strabane Intermediate School student body donated two full truck loads of food to the Washington Area Humane Society as a service learning project. Mrs. Lauren Ihrig was the lead at NSIS.

Canon-McMillan High School’s Samuel O’Bryan who was awarded the Positive Athlete of Pittsburgh Award for boys’ soccer through the Hines Ward Foundation.

Canon-McMillan alumnus – and Nordenberg Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh – Lucas Carroll who will be traveling to China this summer as a Pitt Ambassador.

Wylandville Elementary School is being recognized for both Tier 1 and Tier 2 Implementation of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support with high fidelity at the 2018 PBIS Implementers’ Forum. For Tier 1, it is being recognized for sustaining high fidelity implementation. It is at 100 percent implementation for both Tier 1 and Tier 2. This achievement was able to be accomplished because of every teacher and staff member in the building and the work and follow through that is being done with this program.

A Canonsburg Middle School team of eighth-graders won the most prestigious award (Best Manufacturing Message) in the “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing” video competition at the University of Pittsburgh, Eberly Campus, sponsored by Catalyst Connection. The honor earned the team a trip to Harrisburg to participate in the first-ever regional competition. The team, led by middle school teacher, Pam Moniodes, consisted of Marcus Neely, Alia McFarland, Maadav Muthukumar, Caleb Mowery, Reuben Brock, Taylor Pastore, Anna Sheppard, Devlin Smith and Bode Dagen.

Canon-McMillan High School students Brian Bayne, Josey Goodell, and Alyssa Kroesen, as a result of outstanding academic achievement while attending WACTC, were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.

The principals of Wylandville Elementary, Hills-Hendersonville Elementary, Muse Elementary, and Cecil Intermediate School for receiving the Remaking Learning Days grant for their respective schools.

Canon-McMillan High School students who took the top two spots in the 2018 Washington County Envirothon Competition. Canon-Mac’s Gold Team’s second-place place winners were Jeffrey Kim, Mikayla Bayto, Chase Chambers, Katie Blanock, and Abby Daniels. Canon-McMillan’s 1st Blue Team’s first-place winners were Austin Kiers, Henry Mongrain, Maddie Timko, Amiee Buxton, and Pinar Garbioglu.

Canon-McMillan High School’s Hannah Chop placed first in the Westinghouse Science Honors Institute voluntary program. Hannah earned 116.50 out of a possible 130 points. Hannah will receive a $1,000 check for her effort. Mrs. Deliere, the science department chair, said, “This is the first time since 2014, that I am aware of, where one of our students has taken first place. I am so proud of Hannah!”

Logan Macri, Abby Daniels, and Mr. Zach Maisner represented Canon-McMillan School District at the student forum. They discussed the district’s Technology Education courses (Engineering Design, Architectural Design, Digital Video Production) and how it has incorporated drones into the curriculum of some of those courses.

Katelyn Thomas, Auma Actuators; Jessica Cadez – Community Service; Megan Bowers – Academic Excellence; Kathryn SeCaur – Attendance; Gannon McDonough – STEM; Dave Helinski, Canon-McMillan High School principal. Missing from the photo is Gavin Beachy – Academic Improvement.

Challenge Program honors seniors

The Challenge Program, Inc., has distributed financial incentive awards to seniors at Canon-McMillan High School for excelling in the areas of attendance, STEM, community service, academic improvement and academic excellence.

Literacy Festival lassos students

There was a lot of horsin’ around at the Frank Sarris Public Library – but it was all in good fun as part of the 2018 Reading Round-Up literacy festival.

Students in kindergarten through fourth grade attending a Canon-McMillan elementary schools were invited to the two-night event. The theme for the second-annual literacy festival included country-western themed stories, games, crafts, music and prizes.

More than 250 cowboys and cowgirls of all ages showed up for the event. Canon-McMillan high school students from the National Honor Society and student council volunteered their time throughout the evening.

A sampling of activities included middle school students reading books that they authored, country-western bingo, making a horse craft and bookmark and being challenged by a cactus ring toss game.

Guessing games and raffle baskets, provided by Sarris Candies, were scattered throughout the children’s department. Students who signed up for a library card were entered into a separate raffle, and many students left with stacks of books to take home.

In addition, every student attending was given a book to take home to add to their own collection that was donated by Canon-McMillan Education Association.

Sarris Candies provided “Yee-Haw” sundaes for all of the students who attended. Principals of each elementary building volunteered to read in the story-time room and then donated their books to the library. Canon-McMillan School District provided many of the craft supplies and giveaways the student received.

This event was largely successful thanks to donations and sponsors, including Canon-McMillan Education Association, the Canon-McMillan School District, Sarris Candies, and Dombrowski Insurance Agency – Erie Insurance and the late Tom Stanko.

SADD program is back

Canon-McMillan High School has re-established its SADD chapter and is inviting students to join. The re-launch was spearheaded by a representative of the Washington Drug and Alcohol Commission.

The new club, which currently has more than 20 active members, was part of a SADD STRONG National Chapter Campaign during Alcohol Awareness Month in April to promote an initiative called, “Is It Worth the Risk?”

“Is It Worth The Risk?” included presentations from a member of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as a person who is currently in recovery. The speakers were available afterward to answer individual questions.

Then, during the week of May 14, the group helped raise awareness of a shocking statistic – traffic accidents are the number-one cause of death for teenagers. But that’s not all: the 100 days after Memorial Day are the most dangerous of the year.

Contact Canon-McMillan High School teacher and club sponsor Ms. Susan Henderson to join the group.

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