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Third grader Lucy Vetter was the first place winner in the annual spelling bee sponsored by the Carnegie-Collier Rotary. The Carnegie Elementary student competed against 14 of her peers to win a $ 100 gift card to Barnes & Noble Booksellers and the right to compete at a regional competition at Seven Springs Resort in June. Isa Chaudhry narrowly missed first place, taking second in the competition while Yaashna Praveenkumar took third. The finalists also received gift cards to Barnes & Noble.
year. The students planned a symphony orchestra performance at Heinz Hall incorporating marketing, production and multimedia elements which culminated in a grand concert on May 16. Those working on the project-based activity included seniors Rebecca Turkse( repertoire) and Lorin Welsh( marketing) and freshmen Jamiee Cabili and Maggie Reigle( production) and Haley Simcic( repertoire).
Crafton Elementary was the proud recipient of the 2017 STEM Excellence Pathway Award on behalf of the Carnegie Science Center. The school was recognized as a partner in STEM education for its practices in using a collaborative and inquiry-based approach to educating students.
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CARLYNTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS
Top spellers of the Carnegie Elementary spelling bee were Isa Chaudhry, Lucy Vetter and Yaashna Praveenkumar.
Gifted students once again put Carlynton on the map with victories at various local competitions. In early May, fifth graders Caden Crow, Gabriel DiPietro, Aziz Qudratullaev and Bailey Vetter captured first place at the Children’ s Choice Battle of the Books competition held at Soldier and Sailors Hall in Oakland. Third grader Lucy Vetter, fourth grader Eva Miller, fifth grader Ella Snyder and sixth graders Mary Dougherty and Austin Milliner took second place in the motivational reading challenge. Later in the week, fourth and fifth graders Mason Glover, Sean Hart, Eva Milliner, Ella Snyder and Bailey Vetter won third place at a literature festival held at Washington Elementary School.
In cooperation with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, five high school students participated in the Audience of the Future project during the school
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The WiSE( Women in Science and Engineering) Speaker Series held for fifth grade girls of Carnegie Elementary introduced a number of career options to students this spring. Spearheaded by teacher Scott Donnelly, the series allowed the girls to meet, interact and be inspired by successful women
Physical therapist Mary Butch got hands-on with students during a WiSE presentation.
Students made solar-powered cars and tested them in front of the school during a presentation by Professor Helen Boylan from Westminster College.
in a variety of STEM careers. This year’ s series kicked off with Paige Kassalen, an electrical engineer for Covestro, who encouraged the girls to speak up and voice opinions. Paige was the only American women on the Solar Impulse team to make the history-making flight around the world in 2016. Game Engineer Ana Balliache of Schell Games shared the importance of respecting one another’ s work and ideas while illustrating interactive games and applications. Other speakers in the series included Chandler Fuller, a software engineer for Google San Francisco, Mary Butch, a physical therapist, Brenda Isaza, an aeronautical engineer with Boeing and Dr. Helen Boylan, a Westminster College chemistry professor.