Motyka, Shirley <SMotyka@westernwayne.org>
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Western Wayne FBLA Excels at Pennsylvania State Leadership ConferenceApril 19, 2024Row 1 (l to r): Olivia Gries, Audrey Agnello, Phoebe Schmitt, Taylor Maiocco, Rhayni Carroll, Emily Romanowski, and Madelyn McClure. Row 2 (l to r): Avery Ulner, Isabella Kolp, Clare Coccodrilli, Connor Bryant, David Elias, Khole Mistishin, Maggie Kotchessa, and Allie Pauler.
The 73rd annual Pennsylvania State Leadership Conference was held this past week in Hershey. Western Wayne FBLA had 32 members competing at the conference this year. Sixteen of those 32 members placed in the top 10 at the state level and were recognized at the Awards of Excellence Program. Eight members have qualified to compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference this June in Orlando.
The Business Ethics team of Rhayni Carroll, Taylor Maiocco, and Emily Romanowski placed 3rd. Olivia Gries placed 2nd in Introduction to Business Communications. The team of Audrey Agnello and Phoebe Schmitt placed 4th in Introduction to Business Presentation. Maggie Kotchessa placed 5th and Khole Mistishin placed 7th in Introduction to FBLA. Madelyn McClure placed 3rd and Madelyn Vinton placed 6th in Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure. The team of Clare Coccodrilli, Isabella Kolp, and Avery Ullner placed 9th in Introduction to Social Media Strategies. The team of Connor Bryant and David Elias placed 10th in Sports and Entertainment Management. Allie Pauler placed 4th in Word Processing.
In addition, Rhayni Carroll placed 4th, Emily Romanowski placed 7th, and Adrian Agnello placed 8th in Who’s Who in Pennsylvania FBLA and were recipients of the William Seldon Scholarship. Adrian and Emily each received a $1000 scholarship and Rhayni received a scholarship of $1250.
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Western Wayne / Honesdale HS Robotics Team Wins ChampionshipApril 18, 2024 This April the robotics team FRC 4285 Camobots (composed of Honesdale HS and Western Wayne HS students) competed at the FIRST Mid-Atlantic Robotics Competition Regional Championship and won. This is a huge endeavor and first-ever win at the FMA Regional Championship held at Lehigh University. The competition is three days (starting with inspection of the robot by teams of engineers, scouting of robot qualities, randomly competing with and against numerous teams, presentation to judge teams of CEO’s and engineers from companies, and finals team selection on the 3rd day). Our team was the 3rd selection of Alliance 2’s team. Our team had to play defense to shut down the other team’s top scoring robot and it worked (see attached video link and forward to timestamp). Alliance 2 won which was composed of us, a team from southern PA, and southern NJ. Further, our students involved work diligently in the offseason to secure funding from businesses along with the Department of Defense. Also, in the offseason the students are being trained up in fields of robot programming, CAD (AutoDesk Inventor), Engineering and Design, Electronics and Sensors, Automated machining, Automation and Game Play, Public Speaking, and numerous additional skill sets. Team Advisor and Western Wayne teacher Brian Landry wishes to thank everyone in both the Western Wayne and Honesdale School Districts and local community who helped the students achieve this tremendous goal. To better understand what competition is like, see attached information
FMA Day 3 Championship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCDUeduIIeQ – Timestamp 10:04:09 (we shut down the top scoring robots in our league)
What is FMA FIRST Robotics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCrrp1DNmM&t=39s – couple minute video
Pictured is Team FRC 4285 with the coveted Blue Banner.
In addition, the local community is invited to watch the Robotics team compete in the World Championships in Houston, Texas, using the links below. They will be completing from Thursday, April 18, through Saturday, April 20. This link will allow you to watch all 8 fields live, if you click on one of the fields and then select Milstein Field (which is the one our team will be playing on) this will give you a larger version of our field. We have three teams including us playing in this division field from our league with a total of 72 (minus our 3 teams) from other areas of the United States and countries. 608 FRC teams (our division), along with est 300 FTC (middle school) and est 200 FLL (elementary). 50,000 students from around the world total competing in the highest STEAM related competition. Thank you, again, to all who support us in this endeavor. https://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#chat=hidden&layout=8&view_0=firstinspires-0
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RECYCLE YOUR ELECTRO-JUNKApril 9, 2024Join the Y, Honesdale National Bank, Wayne County Fair Association, Advanced Disaster Recovery llnc. & Advanced Recycling in being environmentally active & recycling your broken & unwanted household or business electronic junk. Funds raised for YMCA Financial Assistance, Special thanks to The Fair Association for allowing us to use their location.
Click here for more information.
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FREE: Mental Health First Aid Virtual TrainingsApril 9, 2024Mental Health First Aid training is an 8-hour evidence-based curriculumcreated by the National Council for Mental Well-being. This course helpsadults working with youth ages 12-18 to identify, understand, and respond tothe early signs of mental health and substance use challenges using theALGEE action plan
Please see the following download for details:
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FRC Robotics Team 4285 Camobots competing at Regional ChampionshipsApril 4, 2024The team has won a District Champion at a District Event along with Innovation in Automation and Creativity Award for Robot Design and Gameplay
See link information below:
April 4, 2024
FIRST FMA Regional Championship Day 1 video feed: Lehigh University Stabler Goodman Stadiumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcQibPeSckEST Qualification Matches start 1:30PM-6PM (8AM – noon is inspection / practice matches / calibration)
April 5, 2024FIRST FMA Regional Championship Day 2 video feed: Lehigh University Stabler Goodman Stadiumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0o5SW-QV8UEST Qualification Matches start 8AM-6PM
April 6, 2024FISRT FMA Regional Championship Day 3 video feed: Lehigh University Stabler Goodman Stadiumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCDUeduIIeQEST Qualification Matches start 8AM-12 noon then Finals selection matches start 1PM est – 6PM
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