SHARPSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Volume 1, Issue 8

Sharpsville High School

May 2015

PREPARING TOMORROW’S LEADERS – EDUCATION FOR THE HEAD, HEART & HAND

In just a few short weeks you will you’re your cap and gown and approach the stage after your name is announced. Each of you will approach the stage once your name is called and I will meet you there. In my hand I will be holding your diploma and on my face I will be wearing a smile. I am so proud of you. Yes, I realize we have not been together very long; however, in these few short months I have come to care about you very much. I will miss you.

I have heard some say that high school is the best time of your life. I disagree. The high school experience is different for everyone. Some of you have had a lot of success. You have done well in school. The content was challenging, but you learned it quickly. Some of you had to work very hard to be successful. Others found no connection to the content and as a result, found it difficult to spend much time focusing on homework, papers, and studying for exams.

Some of you became involved in athletics or other clubs/organizations in your time at Sharpsville High School. You found a group you could call your own. This did not come without drama or fights, but one way or another you worked it out. Some of you had a hard time fitting in. Maybe it was because you were not originally from Sharpsville, you were just a shy person, you did not want to get involved in typical high school activities, you just wanted to be alone, or you simply were not accepted by your peers (this one saddens me the most).

You will soon find out that life after high school is filled with uncertainty. In fact, you may even come to crave this time once again. The simplicity of it, the expected routines, and the sense of knowing what to expect can be a rather inviting environment to live in. The challenge that life will now bring is simply too exciting to pass up. You have waited your whole life for the moment to spread your wings – here it is.

I have some advice for you:

Learn to be flexible. Nothing will ever really go as planned.

Learn to forgive. Forgiveness simply means that you are moving on and leaving the past in the past. You cannot move forward with your heels dug into the dirt.

Take a chance. Nothing exciting was ever created and no discovery was ever made without someone taking a chance when nobody else would. Put yourself out there.

Learn that failure is a part of success. Those individuals who took a chance also failed a lot. We all fail, but they learned from the failure and persevered.

Learn to learn. You have not even lived a quarter of your life yet. Guess what – you have a lot to learn. It is okay.

Learn to love. There is too much anger and hate in this world. Be

the person who breaks the cycle. Be the person who refuses to let anger rule his/her life.

Be courageous. Do what is right when nobody else will. This decision may result in you losing out on something you want, but at least you will not lose a piece of yourself or your integrity.

Value time over money. I have a feeling that when I take my last breath that I will not be thinking about the money I have in my bank account. I can only pray that I am not regretting the time I did not spend with my loved ones.

To the Class of 2015 – I wish you the very best that life has to offer. I wish I could say it will be handed to you, but that would be a lie. I can only say that you will always have my support and affection. Once you are my student you are always my student; etched forever in my heart.

Principal Perspective Timothy J. Dadich

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ENGLISH Mrs. Butchy – English Festival Congratulations go out to our competitors at the 2015 YSU English Festival. Our students attended the event with over 800 readers and writers from Western PA and northeastern Ohio and participated in a variety of creative and expository writing competitions. Sophomore Victoria Carte's team placed 2nd out of 200 entries in the Writing Games competition. Freshman Elysse Rogers placed third in the Not-so-Trivial-Pursuit competition and sixth place out of more than 500 essays in the Impromptu Writing Contest.

Finally, the most prestigious award of the Festival is the Candace Gay Memorial Essay Contest, where students are expected to evaluate the novels they've read for the competition and respond to a sophisticated prompt in a 3-5-page essay. I'm proud to announce that three of our participants received honorable mention for their essays: Those individuals are Lily AbiNader, Jacinda Caldwell, and Elysse Rogers.

Congratulations to all participants on a job well done.

Ms. Weingartner – English Class News Advanced Placement testing takes place the first two weeks in May. A good night's sleep and healthy breakfast will help students taking any of these tests. Ms. Weingartner will be meeting with next year's AP Composition class after school on May 21st to review summer assignments and expectations for the course. Students will be reading a variety of magazine articles, summarizing each of these into a 1-2 page Word document, and submitting the final products according to the summer schedule. In addition, students will complete a multipart online grammar review with a required minimum of 80% to pass. As always, AP students can contact Ms. W. for extra help or advice on these projects, and the grammar tests can be retaken any time before the first day of school by contacting Ms. W. After taking the AP Composition test on May 13th, Ms. Weingartner's 2015-2016 AP Literature class will be reading a short novel of their choice from a selected list. By modeling expectations and successful techniques for close reading of novels, Ms. W prepares the AP Literature class for their summer assignment: choosing two-three novels from different time periods, students will be given a range of materials, such as background information and study questions, to help them complete each novel. Students will be offered a variety of projects, tests, and other assignments to prove their mastery of the material. These novels will form the basis for the open-ended question on the AP Literature test, so taking detailed notes for review in April-May will be essential to success on the test. The Literature/Composition IV classes are completing a novel unit. Students chose novels of interest to them and will elect whether to take tests or present projects as proof of their mastery of the material. On the last two days of class, students will review for the Literature/Composition IV final exam with Ms. Weingartner posing potential test questions on texts from throughout the year.

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SCIENCE Mrs. Smith – Envirothon

On Wed, May 6th

, four high school students competed in the Mercer and Crawford County Envirothon competition. This is a national competition with county, state and national levels. Taylor Pollock, Sam Ference, Jacob Coryea and WIlliam Shea represented Sharpsville and received 7th place. The competition features difficult questions, tasks and identifications in the areas of Forestry, Aquatics, Soils, Wildlife and a Current Issue.

Mr. Chovanes, Physical Science

Mr. Chovanes’ physical science classes built egg catching devices that caught eggs dropped from increasing heights all the way up to the gym balcony.

They are also having a competition to build a catapult that can launch a small rubber cork the furthest distance.

Slippery Rock University Physics Department is offering a full slate of physics courses to high school students interested in earning college credit while still in high school.

Concepts of Science I (Phys 101) with lab (3 credits) June 1 – June 26

Elements of Physics I (Phys 201) with lab (4 credits) June 1 – June 26

Elements of Physics II (Phys 202) with lab (4 credits) June 29 – July 27

General Physics I (Phys 211) with lab (4 credits) June 29 – July 27

For more information please contact the chair:

Dr. Athula Herat (724-738-2490) athula.herat@sru.edu

Students who are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity should see Mr. Chovanes before the end of the school year.

Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science

Good luck at the State PJAS Science Fair? We leave on Sunday morning and will return Tuesday.

Grade 12: Brittany Lutheran

Grade 11: Roberta Pegg, Doug Nashtock

Grade 10: Juliana Stanko

Grade 9: Lily AbiNader, Jacinda Caldwell, Hannah

Carmella, Elysse Rogers

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION Mrs. Springer

Students in Mrs. Springer’s class attend the Shenango Valley Specual Games on May 5th, 6th and 7

th.

Transition Agency visits will begin the month of May

NATURAL HELPERS Mrs. Springer

On Applebee Pond was presented to the elementary school in April.

Celebrate Life will be presented to the 8th grade class on May 20th

8th grade retreat will be held at Slippery Rock University on May 27th.

SOPHOMORE CLASS Mrs. Toth Every Wednesday in May - Yumberriers from 4- 7 we receive 20% of each order - no flyer needed. May 18-19 Hot Head Burritos - from 3-close we receive 20% of each order – a business card will be needed. cards will be available soon.

JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND BAND CONCERT Mr. Moon The Sharpsville High School Jazz Ensemble recently performed at the Art Festival and Middle School Band Concert. Mr. Moon and his group played exceptionally well at both. The

Sharpsville High School Band performed for family, friends, and community members on April 30, 2015. The concert featured a wonderful selection of songs and honored three members of the Class of 2015 with annual awards given by Mr. Moon.

John Philip Sousa – Brittany Lutheran

Louis Armstrong Award – Sean Williams

Patrick Gilmore Award – Sam Ference Congratulations to the band and all seniors on their final show.

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The following Sharpsville Students were honored for their work at the Mercer County Career Center. Congratulations! We are proud of you.

Ryan Hogue Serrena Scultz Auto Mechanics Early Childhood Education

The following Sharpsville Students were honored as Students of the Month for April. Congratulations to you all – We are proud of you!

Alexis Scharringhausen, Sam Ference, William Shea, Jacob Coryea, Tayvon Alberty

HONORS – Our Students Rock!

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ATHLETICS – Track, Baseball, Softball TRACK AND FIELD

In addition to countless athletes making personal improvements in their times and marks throughout the season, we have had many athletes qualify for the District 10 Championships

The following relay teams have qualified for the District 10 Championships: Boys 3200 Meter Relay, Boys 400 Meter Relay, Girls 400 Meter Relay, and Girls 1600 Meter Relay;

Boys qualifying for the District 10 Championships individually: Chris Enos (100 & 200 Meter Dashes), Bradley Calleja (1600 Meter Run), Logan Lukonic (1600 and 3200 Meter Runs), Chris Frye (200 & 400 Meter Dashes), Tyrin Peavy (High Jump)

Girls qualifying for the District 10 Championships individually: Haleigh Coryea (100 & 300 Meter Hurdles), Madison Przicina (100, 200, 400, 800, & 1600 Meters), Destiney Golub (100 Meter Dash), Alexandria Hasenplug (100 & 200 Meter Dash)

School Recrods that have been broken: Madison Przicina in the 100 Meter Dash and 800 Meter Run (12.7 and 2:21.62), Haleigh Coryea in the 100 and 300 Hurdles (17.11 and 51.37), Girls 1600 Meter Relay of Destiney Golub, Alexandria Hasenplug, Haleigh Coryea, and Madison Przicina

31 Athletes have earned Varsity Letters

The girls team placed 11th out of 52 schools at the Pine Richland Invitational last Friday.

1. Boys 400 Meter Relay team of Tyrin Peavy, Bobby Besser, Tyler Wansack, and Chris Enos broke our school record

Chris Frye qualified for the district championship in the 100 Meter Dash with a time of 11.5

Haleigh Coryea re-broke her school record in the 100 Hurdles with a time of 16.8 seconds

Cassie Lukonic qualified for districts in the 3200 Meter Run with a time of 12:50

Alexandria Hasenplug qualified for districts in the high jump with a jump of 4'8"

BASEBALL and SOFTBALL

The baseball team currently sits at 4-8 and will more

than likely not make the playoffs. The boys are 4-8

overall. The last two games have been solid wins over

region teams. Two of our players will continue their

baseball careers in college:

Greg Popatak – George Mason

Mitch Fyffe – Marietta College

The softball team is 9-2 team clinched first place in the region with a big win over Titusville on May 7, 2015. The girls have clinched the region and look to make a run in the playoffs.

Good luck in playoffs ladies!!

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Softball 2015 Region Champs

Celebrating Seniors

Sharpsville is Proud of You!

Logan Eckles, Mitch Fyffe, George Keck, Greg Popotak

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Students Honor Sharpsville’s

BIGGEST FAN!!!!!!

Amy Petricini (Class of 1997) was recently honored at spring sports recognition assembly for the

middle school and high school. Amy was voted as having the “Most School Spirit” of her class and

that has not changed. Since graduating, Amy has continued her support of the Sharpsville Blue

Devils whether it be on a field, a court, in the classroom, or on the stage. Thank you Amy!

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SHS LEAD Team Presents

Please donate old Sharpsville Clothing to the High School, Middle School, or Elementary School office.

Items will be resold at a low, set price.

The money raised will be used to fund the new SHS Food Pantry to support Sharpsville students in need.

Donations will be accepted now through Friday, May 22nd.

The Swap Sales will be held at a later date.

For any questions or concerns, please contact:

HS Principal, Tim Dadich at tdadich@sasdpride.org or (724) 926-7861 ext. 1850

Swap Sale Organizer, Nina Barnes at ninaallison.barnes29@gmail.com

Food Pantry Organizer, Lily Abinader at abinaderlily@gmail.com