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FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL Principals' Pride Report January 2014 Fairview High School Website Tiger Roar Newspaper TABLE OF CONTENTS Don’t get lost! 72 100 Women Who Care 14 Photo Club 48 Athletes of the Week 74 PJAS 18 Attendance 68 Report Cards and Transcripts 16 Brittany Grimm – Photography Showcase 10 Robotics 42 Cheerleading 50 Romeo and Juliet 70 Creative Productions 58 Ryan Bookhamer – First Place Award 52 District Chorus 66 Scholarships 56 ECTS Students 4 Snowiest City 30 English 12 Speech and Debate 46 Envirothon Club 36 State Performance Profile 64 High School Fashion Trends 54 Student Council 8 Holiday Spirit Week – December 22 Students of the Month 6 Key Events for January 26 Teens and Drugs 34 Keystone Exams 62 Latest Music Trends 20 Library 38 Winter Concert 40 Media Release – Student Paths 32 Yearbook 24 Mentor of the Month 28 Music Boosters Erie, PA As of January 12, Erie still holds the title of the Snowiest City in the Nation! To date, Erie has accumulated over 91 inches of snow far surpassing the seasonal average of 47.4 inches. Last year, the coldest day in January was 7 degrees. Now, we consider that “warm.” The snowstorms that stretched throughout the region brought Fairview temperatures into the forty below zero range. Fairview closed its doors on Tuesday, January 7 due to extremely cold weather conditions. The temperature was -12 degrees, but the windchill was in the -20 degree range. Fairview, Pennsylvania has experienced some of the coldest winter days it has seen in years. Mrs. Martter said, “I cannot remember the last time Fairview closed for winter weather conditions.” Bundle up and stay warm, everyone! SNOWIEST CITY KEY EVENTS FOR JANUARY Interesting History New Year’s Day - The most celebrated holiday around the world. Birthday - Betsy Ross (1752-1836) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a seamstress credited with helping to originate and sew the Stars and Stripes flag of America in 1776. January 4, 1974 - President Richard Nixon rejected subpoenas from the Senate Watergate Committee seeking audio tapes and related documents. January 12, 1991 - Congress authorized President George Bush to use military force against Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait. Birthday - Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. As an African American civil rights leader he spoke eloquently and stressed nonviolent methods to achieve equality. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. In 1983, the third Monday in January was designated a legal holiday in the U.S. to celebrate his birthday. Birthday - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria. From the age of five, through his untimely death at age 35, this musical genius created over 600 compositions including 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano and five violin concerti, 25 string quartets, 19 masses, and many other works. http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/january.htm HOLIDAY SPIRIT WEEK December Follow-Up Student Council strikes again! To spread holiday cheer and school spirit, Student Council put together a week full of festive activities and dress up days. The Holiday Spirit Week was held from December 16-20, the week leading up to Christmas break.Monday was “Red and Green Day,” Tuesday was “How The Grinch Stole Christmas Day,” Wednesday was “Ugly Sweater Day,” Thursday was “Elf on the Shelf Day,” and Friday was “The Night Before Christmas Day.” The main activities included a “Deck the Door” competition and Christmas cartoons playing on the slideshow during lunches. Mr. Bookhamer’s door “revved” the competition coming in first place with “Santa’s Launching Pad.” Mr. Meighen’s classroom snuggled in close taking second place with a “homey” approach including a fireplace and children reading. Mr. Drabina’s classroom did not stray from his holiday reputation; the classroom was strung with Christmas lights, covered in snowflakes, filled with stockings, and topped off with a tree, reindeer, and train! Mr. Mummert won the Ugly Sweater Contest with his decked out attire. One of the most creative sweaters came from Mrs. Froehlich with her baby bump wrapped as a present! The Spanish and French Club tradition of caroling took place on Friday, December 20. Fairview’s hallways were filled with holiday tunes! Thank you to all who participated. RPM 156 On January 4th, 2014, our robotics team, Robotics Plus Mayhem, along with about 2,500 other teams around the world, participated in “Kick-off.” At this world-wide meeting, we learned of the game (titled Aerial Assist) as well as the rules, requirements, and deadlines. Following this meeting, our team has 6 weeks to design, build, and program our robot to complete the tasks of the game. For this year’s game, we need to be able to pick up a 2-foot diameter ball off the floor, catch an aerial ball, and throw the ball towards a goal. In order to come up with a final design, we have to prototype to know what does and doesn’t work. We have designed and tested two different throwing mechanisms that both work on pneumatics. One throws overhand and the other throws underhand. The overhand throw gave us more height and longer distance, so is therefore the design we are leaning towards for our final product. Once prototyping is complete and we know precisely what works and what we want to do, we will build our final product. While the robot is being prototyped and designed downstairs, some of us go upstairs and work on written awards and our website. We are making great progress by getting essays written, finalizing a business plan, planning different marketing strategies and continuing to update our website (http://www.rpm156.com/). As a team, we meet six days a week and although it is quite the commitment, our efforts are paying off as we make great progress upstairs and down in the building rooms. We will be competing alongside at least 45 other teams at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional competition in late March. ROBOTICS SPEECH AND DEBATE Congratulations! Congratulations go out to JP Jarecki. JP took third place in Student Congress at the Pine-Richland Invitational, which took place on January 18. JP Jarecki JP Jarecki, Ryan Cedzo, Tristrum Tittle, and Simon Yahn PHOTO CLUB Thank you Joe LeFevre! On Saturday Jan 18th Photo Club attended a seminar at Edinboro University given by Joe LeFevre a well known landscape photographer from New York. The seminar was full of tips and tricks for how to take amazing landscape photography as well as time lapse videos. A big thanks to Erie photography Club for bringing Joe to Erie and inviting us to attend. Photographed from left to right: Stephanie Majewski, Sara Cruz, Josh Myers, Joe LeFevre, Mrs. Daley, Kaija Neilsen, Ashley Lewis “Radiance” Photography by definition is the art or night. The segment of the project was practice of using light to create an image, difficult, I wanted to show the contrast but photography for me is much more night has with day but I also wanted to than that. Photography is a way for me capture the soft tones and hazy feeling. to share my emotions and feelings with I shot things like street lights, different people that I could not have the chance colored lights at night, and projected light. to do without my camera. For my Photo I also incorporated different techniques III experience I took my photographs to and principles of design, such as shape, the next level. I accomplished this by direction, texture and value. These pursuing the theme of Radiance. When techniques help make photographs more hearing the word radiance I think of warm appealing to the eye. I did not stick to cheerful memories. All of my photographs one subject in my photos, I shoot nature, have a soft lighting effect, warm colors portraits and even landscapes to make and a hazy tone. In each of my images my theme have more depth. Many people I focused on capturing light directly, go through life not taking in the beauty whether it was actual sunlight or artificial around them, I would like to show them light, some kind of light is present. I also that beauty when they look at my images, used photoshop effects to make it appear and highlight the radiance that surrounds that the photograph was softer and had us each day in all things. no harsh lines. In accordance with the theme of radiance I also shot lights at - Brittany Grimm BRITTANY GRIMM DECEMBER 19 through JANUARY 16 ATTENDANCE Total number of absences from 12-19-13 to 1-16-14 - 187 Come to School! Average number of absences per day - 15.6 per day Average percentage - 3.8% Total number of tardies from 12-19-13 to 1-16-14 - 105 Average number of tardies per day - 8.7 per day Average percentage - 2.1% Please remember to submit an excuse for any student absence within three days of the absence. Failure to do so will result in an unexcused/illegal absence. After three unexcused/illegal absences your student may be sent before the district justice for truancy with possible fines or revocation of student driving privileges. UPDATE IN ATTENDANCE POLICY Parents, please be aware of a very important attendance policy. As found in the Student Handbook, “A student who is absent from a given class (without a doctor’s excuse) more than ten times will receive NO CREDIT for the course. Absence due to participation in school sanctioned activities is not counted for this. Also, students will receive NO CREDIT for a course if they are illegally absent more than 3 times.