2024-2025 FOX CHAPEL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT # FCProud
• Fox Chapel Area High School junior Ori Goldin was named the first-place winner of both the state and Allegheny County American Legion Essay Contest. As the state first-place winner, Ori won $ 3,500, along with a trip to the Pennsylvania American Legion Convention.
• Fox Chapel Area High School and A. W. Beattie Career Center senior Gretchen Shelestak won a bronze medal at the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania competition. Gretchen competed in the cosmetology category.
• A team of Hartwood Elementary School students placed first at the 2025 Children’ s Choice Awards competition. The team was fifth-graders McKenna Anderson and Elizabeth Moudry, and fourth-graders Eli Holmes and Henry Smith. Students were asked to read novels and then participated in a trivia event.
• Junior Nicholas Krist was inducted into the FBLA National Business Honor Society.
• Three Fox Chapel Area School District students were named first-place winners in the 2025 WQED Writers Contest. Fairview Elementary School second-grader Theresa Zigler was named a first-place winner for her story,“ The Case of the Missing Guitar”; Kerr Elementary School first-grader Ameena Searight won first place for her story,“ Ameena’ s Silly Future in Paris”; and Hartwood Elementary School kindergartner Laura Phillips won first place for her story,“ Doggy Dreams.”
• Eight Fox Chapel Area High School and A. W. Beattie Career Center students were inducted into the
National Technical Honor Society: seniors Derrick Clements, Brianna Hnatow, Cecily Sarra, Gretchen Shelestak, and Nathan Yeske, and juniors Jackson Biehl, Casey Byrne, and Gracen Patterson.
• Several high school and middle school students were inducted into National German Honor Societies: seniors Jack Bergmann, Noelle Dick, Benjamin Fiedler, Lindsay Gould, Patton Johnson, Weidi Li, Devon McDonald, Alaina OKunewick, Hannah Parker, and Rebecca Poole; juniors Charles Hahl and Ian Wellman; and eighthgraders Charlotte Coutu, Rebecca Dorneich, Kai Galyardt, Peter“ PJ” Hart, Sidera Kingman-Graves, Rishabh Krishnamurthy, Holden Link, Audrey Seiler, Rebecca Smith, and Oren Wehler.
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