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Rachel Fry and Marissa Witkovsky placed 5th in the state of Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania State National History Day Competition at Millersville University with their senior division, group exhibit: "Forging Her Medal: The Story of Mary E Walker."

SCSD Students Win Video Contest Awards

Spring Cove Middle School students received awards in the 13^th Annual Environmental Video Competition sponsored by the Blair County Board of Commissioners and the Blair County Department of Solid Waste and Recycling. The students were coached by Mrs. Laurie Fichtner. Mr. Harold DeLozier helped with the editing of the commercials. This year’s them was “Waste not, dump not." Each student group produced a 30 second commercial based on the theme. The students will receive their awards at the Blair County Courthouse during the County Board of Commissioners’ May 14, meeting.

Andrew Brumbaugh, Ian Reed, Aaron Butler, and Matt Hetrick from Spring Cove Middle School took first place in their division with their commercial, “Reuse: Farmers and Cows"

SCMS and Central Students Compete at

National History Day at Juniata College

General John J. Pershing Alexander The Great

The Story of Mary E. Walker

This is the third year SCSD competed in the National History Day Competition at Juniata College.   Some of the National Sponsors for History Day are: the History Channel, Maryland State University, and Case Western Reserve University. Mrs. Laurie Fichtner, elementary and middle school gifted support teacher is the National History Day coach. Ms. Griffin, high school English and gifted support teacher, and Mrs. Fichtner were the faculty advisors for Central High School students involved in the competition.
     The students had to choose a topic that they could relate to the theme The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies.   They then began extensive research.   The students had to not only understand the research, but also interpret it.   There were four divisions in which to compete:   exhibit, documentary, performance, and research paper. Some students chose to do exhibit boards and displays. Another group produced a documentary with assistance and instruction from Mr. Roth   In addition to compiling the research and displaying it on an exhibit board, they also could do three-dimensional displays to go along with their exhibits.   Additional requirements included having to do an annotated bibliography, with primary and secondary sources; and a process paper explaining their research project.   On the day of the competition, the students were interviewed by judges about their topics to determine their depth of knowledge.
     It was an incredible learning experience for all of us.    Andrew Brumbaugh placed 2nd in the junior level “Individual Exhibit” category with his project on General John P. Pershing. Rachel Fry and Marissa Witkovsky took 2nd in the high school level “Group Exhibit” category with their project on "Forging Her Medal: The Story of Mary E. Walker".   Jason and Matthew Prokop took 3rd place in the high school level "Group Exhibit" category with their project on "Alexander The Great". Andrew, Rachel, Marissa, Jason, and Matthew are advancing to the PA State National History Day Competition at Millersville, University, May 6 and 7, 2009.

SCMS Students Participate in Computer Fair

SCMS Students Win Computer Fair Awards

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Competing in the web site category was a Alyssa Clark. She placed second in her division. Mr. Roth was instrumental helping to teach Mrs. Fichtner and her students how to utilize Microsoft FrontPage to create a web site. All the students did an excellent job! Kevin Waltz produced an excellent desktop publishing project. Kate Kephart placed third in graphic design. Hope Zimmerman placed first in the graphic design catergory. Hope will be competing at the PA Sate Middle School Computer Fair on May 20 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA

Central High students recently competed at the Intermediate Unit 8 Computer Fair at Penn State Altoona. Mrs. Laurie Fichtner is the Computer Fair Advisor. Mr. Arlin Roth, Instructional Technology Specialist, provided assistance to Mrs. Fichtner, and her students with their graphic design and logo design projects.

CHS Computer Fair Winners
In graphic design category, Sarah Sault placed second. Alexis Worrell placed second in the logo design category.
All the students who competed did an excellent job representing the school district.

SCMS MATHCOUNTS TEAM

SCMS MATHCOUNTS

The SPRING COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHCOUNTS team recently compete in The Blair Region MATHCOUNTS competition at Penn State – Altoona.

MATHCOUNTS

     Eight students from Spring Cove Middle School competed at the Blair County Regional MATHCOUNTS competition at Penn State Altoona with Mrs. Fichtner as their coach.
     The team consisted of Alyssa Clark, Conner Johnson, Ian Reed, Jarrett Ritchey, Lauren Knepp, Zack Hepner, Renee Keith, and Sarah Lechner.
     The students meet with Mrs. Fichtner throughout the school year to work on challenging math problems to help them prepare for the contest. MATHCOUNTS is a national enrichment, coaching, and competition program that promotes mathematics achievement in every U.S. state and territory. MATHCOUNTS is organized and administered throughout the National Society of Professional Engineers and its' state and local chapters. The mission of MATHCOUNTS is to increase enthusiasm for and enhance achievement in middles school mathematics throughout the United States.
     The local sponsors were Penn State Altoona, Business and Professional Women's Organization, and the PA Society of Professional Engineers.

MATHCOUNTS is a National math enrichment, coaching, and competitive competition that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state and territory. MATHCOUNTS is sponsored by many well known organizations. The Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, the Business and Professional Women / USA, the National Society for Professional engineers, NASA, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and General Motors to name a few.

If you would like to experience a challenge, attempt some of the math problems at the MATHCOUNTS website www.mathcounts.org .

The Spring Cove Middle School MATHCOUNTS team consisted of Ian Reed, Jarrett Ritchey, Alyssa Clark, Conner Johnson, Lauren Kneep, Renee Keith, and Sarah Lechner. Students have been working throughout the school year with MATHCOUNTS coach, Mrs. Laurie Fichtner. The students on the team were the top eight scorers from the Spring Cove Middle School MATHCOUNTS school competition. The team placed third in the Blair Region. __________________________________________________

Since so many of you have requested information on where to buy hands-on problem solving activities, I have listed below two websites where you can buy hands-on problem solving games. However, you may need to access them throughyour home internet server. There are restrictions on our server when it is related to shopping.

www.puzzles.com

www.mindwareonline.com

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