South Fayette
High School
Students
Win another
Governor’s
STEM
Competition
The South Fayette High School STEM
Team is the 2018 PA Governor’s STEM
Competition champion! The team of
sophomores, Suraj Bokil, Pranav Dantu,
Swathi Senthil, Parv Shrivastava,
and junior Prateek Jukalkar, beat out
the nearly 200 other teams across the
Commonwealth with their invention to end distracted driving,
an integrated app and mobile device cradle named KYHU, Keep
Your Head Up. KYHU incentivizes drivers to keep their phones
out of their hands by rewarding them with lower insurance
premiums for keeping their phone docked. KYHU allows drivers
“Training
the Trainer”
In August 2018, the South Fayette nutritional leaders,
Aimee Dernosek, Judy Howcroft, and Judy Kirkpatrick
attended the SNAPa (School Nutrition Association of PA)
annual conference in downtown Pittsburgh at the Convention
Center. The convention gave the ladies the opportunity
to learn the most updated school meal guidelines, attend
training seminars and to network with colleagues.
Howcroft received the “Regional Leadership Award” for her
leadership role at the South Fayette Middle School Cafeteria
and was nominated by Food Service Director Tricia Wood,
for all of her efforts and the outstanding job she does on
a day-to-day basis. “Howcroft has been employed by the
District for 20 years and always displays a positive attitude.
She takes pride in her role as the middle school leader and is
always present for the students when they come through the
food court. She also serves on our District’s Safety Committee,”
Wood said.
In the past several years, Kirkpatrick of the South Fayette
Intermediate School has won the “Outstanding Employee of
the Year” and “Regional Leadership Awards” and Dernosek,
high school leader, was a two time winner. “Our leaders
do a phenomenal job with their lunch programs, and their
to utilize GPS mapping and a simple push-to-play/stop music
player to minimize interaction with the device. The SF STEM
Team, advised by SFHS English teacher, James Hausman III,
was recognized by Superintendent Dr. Lockette and the School
Board of Directors at the August 21 school board meeting.
leadership training and level of commitment is beyond words,”
says Wood.
“We provide about 3,200 meals each day and honor
approximately 280 special diet requests from diabetic, gluten free,
PKU, and peanut allergy students. We have approximately 38 staff
dedicated to the nutritional needs of our district and specialized
teams to assist in handling the meal preps,” says Wood.
The Regional Award is presented to a leader for displaying
interest in continuing education in the Child Nutrition Programs,
involvement of teamwork with staff, teachers, administrators,
students, and the community. We are pleased that our leader,
Howcroft, was honored with this award. Congratulations to her
and all of our South Fayette Kitchen Leaders on a job well done.
SOUTH FAYETTE
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