and demonstrate outstanding leadership
abilities and a strong commitment to
volunteer work.
Marciniak serves as National Honor
Society president, North Hills Board of
Education student representative and
senior class president and is a member
of SADD, Hands for Service Club and
Spanish Club. He has been elected as class
president for all four years of high school.
He has been recognized with the Trib Total
Media Outstanding Young Citizen Award
for the past four years and with a bronze
President’s Volunteer Service Award.
Throughout his high school career, he
has volunteered with the Make-A-Wish
Foundation, assisted athletes at Special
Olympics events and participated with the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light
the Night Walk. He also organized and
co-hosted the “It’s a Hockey Night in North Hills” fundraiser to aid
the homeless in Pittsburgh through clothes donations and the
Mario Lemieux Foundation through financial gifts and initiated a
“Pennies for Malaria” change collection to purchase mosquito nets
for those in danger of contracting malaria in Africa.
Marciniak recently was named a North Hills High School
Volunteer of the Year as part of the 2014 Prudential Spirit of
Community Awards program that recognizes outstanding
community service by young Americans.
North Hills Student Advances
to National Art Competition
N
orth Hills High School
students have been honored
for their artistic achievements
in the Alliance for Young Artists
and Writers competition for the
Pittsburgh region.
In coordination with the nationally
known Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the competition
recognized 14 North Hills artists for their photography and digital
art entries. Their artwork was on exhibit at La Roche College’s
Zappala Center in the Cantellops Art Gallery.
Sophomore Brandon Falcona won the Gold Key Award,
the competition’s highest honor, for his digital art piece titled
“Something in the Fields.” His piece advanced to the 2014 National
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition where his artwork
will be judged alongside the best student artwork in the United
States.
More than half of the entries into the competition were not
selected for the show and less than half of the pieces accepted
into the competition were recognized as award winners. A panel
of 12 local artists, art educators and art professionals judged the
entries.
Silver Key Awards were given to senior Kate Baginski, freshman
Amber Kerekes, senior Abigail Majetich and junior Maura Sarazen,
and freshman Brooke Dumas, sophomore Brandon Falcona,
senior Lindsay Feltz, senior Michael Joos, freshman Allison Kenny,
freshman Michael Knochel, junior Maura Sarazen, sophomore
Regan Schell and freshman Emily Uhl were selected for Honorable
Mention Awards.
Each student is a member of the school’s Photogra