IN Norwin Spring 2019 | Page 38

Family STEM Night at Sunset Valley n a Thursday evening, January 10, 2019, Sunset Valley Elementary School invited students and their families to explore STEM-related stations at the school. (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.) Teachers set up 16 activities, including: building the tallest snow fort with marshmallows and toothpicks, exploring magnets, a balance station, build and test a sled, an Angry Bird catapult, paper football accuracy, Legos, Osmos, and racecar tracks. Mr. Matt Anticole, a Norwin High School physics teacher, Danika Brummett, 1st grader, is answered questions about the with her dad in the top picture building a sled. Laighton upcoming Science Fair. More than (kindergarten) and Emerson (2nd 100 students attended and a grade) Macuga are with their good time was had by all. mother using magnets to move a Five Middle School Students Excel at Math Counts Five seventh-grade gifted students from Norwin Middle School competed in the Westmoreland County Chapter Round of the Math Counts Competition in February. This rigorous national competition challenges students to solve increasingly more difficult problems both accurately and quickly, and consists of several rounds. Our Norwin students competed against several other teams from throughout the County, and brought home a second-place win in the Team Round. paperclip through a maze. Seventh graders at Norwin Middle School From left to right: Cole Sullivan Zachariah Patrick Nicholas Cormas (Team Captain) Dr. Constance DeMore Savine (Teacher) Logan Gilbert Arnav Bedekar LIONS CLUB PEACE POSTER CONTEST NORWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL N orwin Middle School 7th Graders participated in the Lions Club Peace Poster Contest, with the theme “Kindness Matters.” The finalists and their parents attended a dinner reception meeting on January 16, 2019, at the Penns Woods Civic Center. Students who were honored include first-place artist, Audra Fedor, with Molly Stanley, Carson Zadylak, and Angelina Angelcyk also receiving accolades. In addition to her success in Norwin, Audra’s poster won at the Westmoreland County District-level and was submitted to the state-level competition. Middle School Social Studies and Art teachers appreciate the partnership with the Lions Club, which has endured at least 25 years, according to Stewartsville Lions Club President Jim Lewis. 36 NORWIN Audra Fedor and Stewartsville Lions Club President Jim Lewis. Audra Fedor’s poster.