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5Th and 8Th Grade Promotion Celebrations June 2021 Congratulations to #WissNation! Every student, staff member and family member in Wiss Nation deserves a round of applause for the successful completion of the 2020-2021 school year. Managing the school year within the constraints of the pandemic challenged us in ways we never imagined, but in true Wiss Nation style, our community persevered and we are proud. We hope the summer is relaxing and rejuvenating and look forward to seeing everyone in the 2021-2022 school year. Best wishes to our seniors on all of their future endeavors! We have a keepsake section for the Class of 2021 on pages 12-20. 5th and 8th Grade Promotion Celebrations The elementary and middle schools celebrated promotion ceremonies the last week of school to congratulate and bid farewell to our 5th graders who journey onward to middle school next year and our 8th graders who make their way to the high school. View More LGE Photos View More BBE Photos View More SGE Photos View More WMS Photos View More SCE Photos CONGRATS! Student and Staff Achievements Congratulations to WMS student, Grace O'Donnell, who won 2nd place in the category of Animation for the Pennsylvania Media and Design State Competition. VIEW ONE BY ONE We also congratulate Eric Jiang, Andrew Li and Ray Pelletier who earned 2nd place in the category of Web Page Design. Their website, Mathamagic, teaches pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry. VIEW MATHAMAGIC Shout out to WMS student, Emmy Check out the 4th edition of the WMS 8th Schurr, for her excellent video entry Grade Art Quarantine Coloring Book - 30+ in the Book Song Challenge. Emmy freehand drawings created by our talented created a song based on the book “Dress student artists. Coded” by Carrie Firestone. She won the WayPastAwesome award and got a VIEW AND PRINT COLORING BOOK $250 award for WMS! WATCH EMMY’S VIDEO Congratulations to our WHS Robotics Team #341, "Miss Daisy" who advanced to the finalist level for their Game Design Challenge submission in the FIRST Robotics Competition games. PMEA State Choral Festival 2021 In total, 1,378 teams worldwide participated in the challenge and 20 finalists were selected for a chance This year, the annual State-Wide PMEA to be one of the three Game Design Challenge Music Festival was forced to go online, winners. Team #341’s game, HyperHive, landed in featuring our superlative musicians in a the top 1.5% of all submissions. new way. The Choral Festival featured a View HyperHive Here AND take a moment to highly competitive series of auditions that vote for our team's submission as the Community culminated in a final ‘Virtual Choir’ event, Choice winner by CLICKING HERE (Click on with a living composer and collegiate the blue button to vote and look for "Team 341: choral conductor. After a series of grueling HyperHive" in the first column). competitive auditions, Lin Kohne, Abby Morehouse, Charlotte Zager, and Kevin Lynch were accepted into the District Level finals. Following those auditions, a second round included students from the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Matriculated into the final Statewide Choral Festival was Wissahickon bass vocalist, Lin Kohne (pictured). Speaking about his experience as a participant in this impressive event, Lin says, “Being a part of All-State Chorus this year was a fantastic experience. It was such an honor to be selected for such an important event. The virtual style was odd but it wasn’t too bad since I’ve been doing virtual school all year. I got to sing some really interesting and unique music and overall I had a blast at All-States.” Many congratulations to our PMEA Choral Scholars Abby, Charlotte, Kevin, and Lin. Students from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) club participated in the NAMI Walks Your Way 5K on June 12th. This year, our Montgomery County chapter held the walk virtually but the WHS Club met at the high school and walked through the streets of Ambler. The fundraiser takes place to raise awareness of mental illness and donations for the mission to help individuals and families right here in our region. NAMI is a national organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families whose lives are impacted by mental illness. If you are interested, you can learn more at https://namimontcopa.org/ and there is still time to give to the team. You can find their fundraising page at Wissahickon High School Team - Fundraising For NAMI (namiwalks.org) A big Pictured: Italia Morton, Kathleen Tallon, Tayma Masallati, thank you students Italia Morton and Kelsey Miller for leading Cami Samuel and Ms. Moyer the club through the pandemic and Ms. Moyer for being the club advisor. Shout out to Italia Morton, Ella Sanders, Suyong Lee and Sarah Freedman who represented WHS in a Youth Summit with Family Services Kudos to WHS Social Studies of Montgomery Community. Based on the teacher, Tim Smyth! The Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS), a student Pennsylvania Council for survey administered in three participating schools, Social Studies and the national it was determined that: 35% of students felt sad or Association for Supervision depressed most days in the past 12 months, 22% of and Curriculum Development students feel that “life is not worth it” in the past recognized Mr. Smyth’s creative 12 months and 21% of all students stopped being work in the classroom and involved with a favorite activity because they were beyond, influencing educators sad. For WHS’s project, the students focused on across the Commonwealth promoting positivity and connecting the school and the country. READ THE community. As part of the project, the students are ARTICLE: HOW A TEACHER hoping that teachers and students will submit a short USES COMICS TO TEACH video that will be collected as an affirmation for all SOCIAL JUSTICE the students at the start of next year. WHS students and staff may submit videos via Flipgrid by clicking here. The Wissahickon community is invited to watch the WMS virtual musical, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr. Our amazing Drama Assistant, Julie Williams, edited and choreographed this very unique and entertaining musical. Kudos to our WMS Choral and Drama Teacher, Sue Brown, and our talented students on this great achievement. WATCH SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE, JR. Junior Award Winners Each year WHS has an opportunity to nominate juniors to receive a variety of awards sponsored by colleges and universities around the country. This year, we are pleased to recognize the following students for their nomination and receipt of their respective awards. • Harvard Book Prize – Ella Chang • Tulane University Book Award – Katelyn Lu • Wilkes University Colonel Emerging Leaders Award – Madyson Blassingale, Melody Gittes, Benjamin Ledbetter and Issac Tunious • Saint Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement & Social Conscience – Demetrius Schank • Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Medal – Dora Stavenger and Richard Wang • Rochester Institute of Technology Innovation and Creativity Award – Alexandria Jiang and Ethan Pigeon • University of Vermont Citizen Scholar Book Award – Amelia Heppe • The Rensselaer Medal – Arianna Reiserer May Mystery Madness at the Elementary Schools This spring, our elementary teachers and students had the opportunity to participate in a "May Mystery Madness" tournament. In this friendly competition, classes of students played against each other via Microsoft Teams in 20-question style games. In grades K-2, students had to use critical thinking, listening, communication and collaboration to guess each other's Mystery Animal. In grades 3-5, students used the same skills plus geography knowledge to guess each other's Mystery State. The tournament was set up via brackets, and classes competed against each other to determine the ultimate WSD grade level winner. Congrats to the winners! Kindergarten: Mrs. Weise, SCE 1st Grade: Ms. Cooper, BBE 2nd Grade: Mrs. Weiss, LGE 3rd Grade: Mr. Bell, LGE 4th Grade: Mrs. Sadowski, SCE 5th Grade: Mrs. Reese, SCE and Mrs. Layton, LGE (tie!) Wiss Link Trained & Ready to Lead The WHS Wiss Link is trained and ready to kick off the 2021-2022 school year as leaders! During June 3rd training sessions (virtual and in-person) led by Wiss Link advisors, Heidi Butt, Steve Mogg, Kara Lehman, Jim Shoemaker, and Matt McKenna, the 85 leaders (next year’s juniors and seniors) were introduced to activities they will host during Freshmen Orientation and worked on Wiss Link’s two main goals: CONNECTION and JOY. The students hit it out of the park! Wissahickon Happenings One of the best traditions at the end of each school year is Field Day! Stony Creek students and other elementary school students enjoy super fun outdoor activities and special refreshments. In recognition of Pride Month this June, members of the WHS After only seeing each other over their computer Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Josie and Emmanuelle Barbash, screens this school year, Ms. Klein’s virtual 2nd grade and Kevin Lynch and GSA advisor Ms. Perrine-Wilson were students enjoyed being together in person at an end of invited to the Pride flag raising ceremony at Whitpain Township. year celebration Ms. Klein held at Wentz Run Park. WHS students celebrated their annual Wissapick’em - an afternoon of games and activities of their choosing. Options included puzzles, sports, painting kindness rocks, Jenga, escape rooms, minute-to-win- it, scavenger hunts, Jeopardy and much more! Thirteen Alumni Selected for Induction to the WHS Hall of Fame We are pleased to announce the inductees to the 2021 WHS Alumni Hall of Fame. This fall we will recognize 13 alumni who have distinguished themselves by their post-graduate professional, academic, athletic and/or personal achievements and public service. The community is invited to join us for the Alumni Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5 pm in the WHS Audion to honor and recognize the accomplishments of our alumni and to provide our current students and school community the opportunity to learn about their successful endeavors.
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