Seneca Valley
SCHOOL DISTRICT
HEAR THEM ROAR
Seneca Valley’s Junior Reserve Officers’
Training Corps (JROTC) Raider Battalion
recently received the 2019-2020 “Heart
of a Lion” award from the Zelienople
chapter of the Lions Club for their
outstanding service to the citizens of the
Zelienople area.
The “Heart of a Lion” Award is
presented to someone in the community
who is not a Lion, but who has
volunteered their time and services.
Seneca Valley’s JROTC program regularly
collaborates with local organizations on
several service learning and community
service projects as part of their
commitment to Leadership Excellence.
The Zelienople Lions Club promotes
the ideals and objectives of Lions Club
International which includes a spirit
of understanding among the people
of the world; good citizenship and
good government; the welfare of the
community; friendship, fellowship,
and mutual understanding leading to
an open discussion of public interest
matters.
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3 SV SENIORS
NAMED FINALISTS
IN NATIONAL
MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAM
Seneca Valley seniors Nishant
Jayachandran, Olivia Schultheis and Sean
Scott, have been named finalists in the
65th Annual National Merit Scholarship
Program held by the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).
These seniors are three of
approximately 15,000 finalists and
will now advance to the next level of
the program where they will have the
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opportunity to earn a National Merit
Scholarship and, ultimately, the Merit
Scholar® title.
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization
that operates without government
assistance, was established in 1955
specifically to conduct the annual
National Merit Scholarship Program.
Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC
with its own funds and by approximately
420 business organizations and higher
education institutions that share NMSC’s
goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic
champions and encouraging the pursuit
of academic excellence.
About 1.5 million juniors in more than
21,000 high schools entered the 2020
National Merit Scholarship Program by
taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/
NMSQT®), which served as an initial
screen of program entrants.
THREE-PEAT
For the third time in a row, the Seneca
Valley Academic Decathlon Team placed
first in a regional Academic Decathlon
Competition, this one held at Edinboro
University on Feb. 8.
The Regional Competition team
includes Nishant Jayachandran,
Megan Neely, Abigail Roeckmann, Mia
Chevallier, Logan Glatz, William Firman,