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2018 Student Technology Showcase 2018 STUDENT TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Pennsylvania Association of Educational Communications and Technology HARRISBURG CAPITOL ROTUNDA MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018 PAECT Student Technology Showcase 2018 Table School Name School District School City Floor 1 & 2 Trexler Middle School Allentown School District Allentown 1st 3 Ritter Elementary Allentown School District Allentown 1st 4 Trexler Middle School Allentown School District Allentown 1st 5 Francis D. Raub Middle School Allentown School District Allentown 1st 6 Miles Township Elementary Penns Valley Area School District Rebersburg 1st 7 Penns Valley Intermediate School Penns Valley Area School District Spring Mills 1st 8 Shippensburg Area Middle School Shippensburg Area School District Shippensburg 1st 9 St. Columba School Harrisburg Diocese Bloomsburg 1st 10 St. Louise de Marillac Catholic School Diocese of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 1st 11 Council Rock High School North Council Rock School District Newtown 1st 12 Susquehannock High School Southern York County School District Glen Rock 1st 13, 14, 15 Bald Eagle Area High School Bald Eagle Area School District Wingate 1st 16, 17 Mifflin County High School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 18 Mifflin County Middle School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 19, 20 Lewistown Intermediate School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 21, 22 Mifflin County High School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 23 Lewistown Intermediate School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 24, 25 Lewistown Elementary School Mifflin County School District Lewistown 1st 26, 29 Montgomery Elementary School Montgomery Area School District Montgomery 1st 30, 31 Montgomery Elementary School Montgomery Area School District Montgomery 1st 32 Delta-Peach Bottom Elementary South Eastern School District of York County Delta 1st 33, 34, 35 Klinger Middle School Centennial School District Southampton 1st Klinger Middle School and William 36 Centennial School District Southampton 1st Tennent High School 37 Klinger Middle School Centennial School District Southampton 1st 38 Lenkerville Elementary Millersburg Area School District Millersburg 2nd 39 Wyncote Elementary Cheltenham School District Wyncote 2nd 40 Myers Elementary Cheltenham School District Elkins Park 2nd 41 Dallastown Area Intermediate School Dallastown Area School District York 2nd 42 Falling Spring Elementary School Chambersburg Area School District Chambersburg 2nd 43, 44 East Elementary School Greenville Area School District Greenville 2nd 45, 46, 47 Whitehall-Coplay Middle School Whitehall-Coplay School District Whitehall 2nd 48 Father Judge High School Archdiocese of Philadelphia Philadelphia 2nd 49 Wyomissing Area High School Wyomissing Area School District Wyomissing 2nd Table 1: What's So Cool about Manufacturing? Trexler Middle School • Allentown School District • Allentown, PA Our presentation will focus on a video created about Ocean Spray to highlight the possibility of jobs in manufacturing. Advisor: Conchetta Marucci Student Presenters: Sallee Boose Jefferson Modesto Elizabeth Iang Sandra Ramirez Quinn Ciomo Representative: Michael Schlossberg Senator: Patrick Browne __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 2: National History Day: Websites Trexler Middle School • Allentown School District • Allentown, PA We will showcase websites that were created for this year's National History Day Competition. Advisor: Conchetta Marucci Student Presenters: Melody Herrera Jefferson Modesto Samuel Goode Brian Badillo Isabella Macsisak Jena LaTorres Representative: Michael Schlossberg Senator: Patrick Browne __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 3: iMovie Book Reports Ritter Elementary • Allentown School District • Allentown, PA Students in fifth grade created book trailers to analyze story elements, communicate their opinion of the book, and celebrate reading. Student videos are presented to the class and used to help students decide what they would like to read next. Advisor: Sarah Cummings Student Presenters: Synthia Layous Mason Marcks Andre Mamari Gwendolyn Muller Jacob Williams James Yacoub Representative: Michael Schlossberg Senator: Patrick Browne Table 4: National History Day: Documentary Trexler Middle School • Allentown School District • Allentown, PA This presentation is about a documentary that was prepared for this year's National History Day: Conflict and Compromise Competition. Advisor: Conchetta Marucci Student Presenters: Tynajer Pearce Myrick Gleishmari Luciano Espinal Liberty Williams Gabriela Ramirez Elijah Albert Stein Representative: Michael Schlossberg Senator: Patrick Browne __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 5: Raub Video Club Presents... Francis D. Raub Middle School • Allentown School District • Allentown, PA Video club students will showcase their video equipment and some of the videos they have done including the video for the completion “What’s So Cool about Manufacturing?” The Francis D. Raub Middle team was awarded the “Outstanding Cool Award”. Advisor: Sylvia Gordon Student Presenters: Nathilyn Legrand Kalliyana Long Akwal Madok Eliesha Padilla Lourdes Payano Jamie Sorto Representatives: Peter Schweyer & Michael Schlossberg Senator: Patrick Browne __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 6: To Space with Technology Miles Township Elementary • Penns Valley Area School District • Rebersburg, PA The fourth grade studies of space were enhanced with technological tools. Students created a model of the Solar System using coding with Tynker. We participated in two webinars with the California Academy of Science. Our study of the moon included a STEM project that culminated in creating a video to demonstrate learning. Advisor: Angela Homan Student Presenters: Carter Ironside Luke Ruoff Tazer Ronk Rylan Birge Representatives: Kerry Benninghoff & Michael Hanna Senator: Jake Corman Table 7: VR in the Elementary Classroom Penns Valley Intermediate School • Penns Valley Area School District • Spring Mills, PA Learn about engaging and motivating apps and tools that make entering the world of VR in elementary school easily accessible for all grades. Students in grade 5 will demonstrate how they use VR tools such as Merge Cube and CoSpaces to learn about their world in 3D. VR is possible in almost any grade or subject. Come see how we have incorporated this futuristic tool in our everyday learning. Advisors: Kristen Albright & Ryan Carty Student Presenters: Xavier Crader Ashley Whitsel Maura Horner Marinn Peters Max King Dilon Reilly Representative: Kerry Benninghoff Senator: Jake Corman __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 8: The Power of Presentation Shippensburg Area Middle School • Shippensburg Area School District • Shippensburg, PA We will demonstrate options for students to use other than the boring, old PowerPoint. Students have investigated different technology options for presentations. Advisor: Katie Watts Student Presenters: Kendyl Seeders Abby Brink Rachel Alleman Gracie Hipple Cameron Gilbert Corbin Kelly Lucy Bourg Representative: Rob Kauffman Senator: Richard Alloway II __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 9: Multi Media Jeopardy St. Columba School • Harrisburg Diocese • Bloomsburg, PA Seventh-grade students made a multimedia interactive jeopardy game using cross-curricular content and fun trivia questions. Students wrote and hyperlinked the questions and answers, chose their own graphics, and inserted transitions between each question. Students then quizzed each other to assess content knowledge. Advisors: Dave Webb & Ron Drumm Student Presenters: Matthew Getz John Guerriero Reed Keck Damyan Petryshak Morgan Pierce Alina Shannon Alexis Turayev Representative: David Millard Senator: John Gordner Table 10: Interactive Video for a Mobile Studio, MakerSpace or STREAM Lab St. Louise de Marillac Catholic School • Diocese of Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, PA Students in grades 7 & 8 will present how they use TouchCast, a FREE iPad app, to create multimedia projects which includes green screen effects, lower thirds, whiteboards, annotation tools, multi camera features, and VAPPS-video apps. Students and teachers can add poll questions, live social media feeds, websites, images, and more to create interactive media. The students collaborate to film school events and create cross curricular projects for our morning announcements, special news features, weather reports, class projects, and more that can be shared with a global audience. Students will also share tips as well as video equipment, microphones, lights, and other apps that enhance production quality for video. All examples can be adapted for use with elementary to high school level. Using an iPad and the TouchCast App makes it possible to create a mobile video studio or a video recording area for a MakerSpace or STREAM Lab. Advisor: Zee Ann Poerio Student Presenters: Shea Gallagher Briella Lucadamo Nathan Klein Mario Williams Kaitlyn Karrenbauer Riley Mazur Representative: John Maher Senator: Guy Reschenthaler __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 11: Engaging English Students with PBLAs Council Rock High School North • Council
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