Congratulations to the Western Wayne students who competed with our team this past weekend in winning the Regional District event. The FIRST FRC Competition is the highest level of robotics to compete in, and many teams compete for over 20 years and have not won… this is Western Wayne’s second time in six years! A big congrats to the team and our partners Wayne Highlands – Honesdale High School!  The picture is with our alliance partners we won with in the finals at Haboro-Horsham.

Western Wayne Students:
Collin Murray, Max Phillips, Matthew Rosengrant, Josh Shelly, and Spencer Smith

 

Monetary donations are given to the Wayne County Community Foundation from people throughout  Wayne County to purchase the dictionaries.  The Wayne County Community Foundation has been giving dictionaries to all of the 3^rd grade students throughout Wayne County for the past 14 years.

Students pictured:
Hailey Wasman, Dominic DeSiato, Brody Estock, Mia Gifford, Maggie Kotchessa, Alexzander DeCandis, Joshua Reingold, Anthony Zoppi, and Joey Tickner

Teacher’s pictured:
Stacy Box, Grace Clauss, Brenda Queipo, Sara Sepelyak, Christin Driscoll, and Mark James from the Wayne County Community Foundation

 

Students from Honesdale High School, Wallenpaupack High School, and Forest City Regional attended  a career day at Highlights in Honesdale on Thursday, February 23. The students heard from multiple people in the Highlights organization on their own personal career journeys and how they came to their job at Highlights. The students also toured Highlights and learned about the different aspects of producing the publication.  From  left:  Aileanna Hutchins, Emily Garcia, Brooke Hedden, Miriam Sheehan, and Lilli Millon.

Five Western Wayne High School students participated in the PMEA Regional IV Chorus Festival which took place February 22 and February 23.  Dominic Corma placed as first alternate for the upcoming PMEA All-State Chorus Festival to take place from April 19-22 in Erie, PA.  He came in fifth out of twenty students who auditioned in the tenor 1 part.  From left:  Ellie Motichka, Brady McElheny, Samantha Pritzlaff, Dominic Corma, and Julianna Cruz.

A case involving an accused arsonist was the challenge local mock trial teams faced at the recent Region 10 District 1 Mock Trial Competition which recently was held at the Scranton courthouse.  The Western Wayne Mock Trial Team participated in this event which took place on February 8th for the defense and on February 16th for the prosecution. Western Wayne competed against Holy Cross for the defense round and Dunmore for the prosecution/ plaintiff round.

The students from the Western Wayne team learned a lot from their experience about preparing and presenting a trial.  All of the eight students on the Western Wayne team believe that in some way this opportunity will help them in the pursuit of their future goals.  The members of the Western Wayne Mock Trial team are pictured  with their adviser. From  left, in front:  Lindsey Karwacki, Samantha Pritzlaff, and Holly Oppelt.  From left, behind:  Mr. Jared Hayden, Vidya Vanyo, Amanda Herold, Emily Garcia, Nadia Vanyo, and Martin Spewak.

It is statistically shown that women make about 76 cents per every dollar that a man makes.  This fact was one of the many statistics, about the struggles women face in society, that members of the Girls Lead club at Western Wayne High School shared with fellow students during a recent event at school.

Marianne Morgan, English teacher, decided to start the club last year as a result of discussions she had with her college-age daughter about a class her daughter was taking on women and economics.  This inspired Morgan to help young women at Western Wayne raise awareness about women’s rights.

She began by sharing the idea with students she thought would want to join the cause and the organization grew from there.  In the club’s two year history, one male student has joined.  Morgan and the other members feel very open to any Western Wayne student taking part in the organization.

This year the group consists of ten members.  Officers are Mallory Jablon, president; Julianna Cruz, vice president, Jenae Martinkovitch, treasurer; Sam Pritzlaff, public relations; Gabby McFey, art director; and members, Ty Alpaugh, Zoe Dilatush, Amanda Herald, Lauren Loscig, and Kayla Fitzpatrick.

An event the members did in the first half of the year involved them spreading awareness about the importance of feminism.  The club had a table outside of the cafeteria where interested students would come over and read a handout with some facts about why feminism is important.  Then if they wanted to participate further they wrote their own reasons for why feminism is important on an index card.  The club members then made a display of the index cards.  Students who participated received a free tote bag.  Each contained a Girls Lead pencil, a flyer about some women with notable accomplishments, and a card stamped with an empowering message such as “She believed she could, so she did!” with a Lifesaver attached and the handwritten message, “You can be your own lifesaver!”.

Pictured are members of the Girls Lead club in front of the display about feminism which was created at their tote bag give away event.  From left: Amanda Herald; Mallory Jablon, president; Sam Pritzlaff, public relations; Ty Alpaugh; Jenae Martinkovitch, treasurer; and Zoe Dilatush.

 

Western Wayne High School students recently participated in the PMEA District 9 Band Festival. From left: Elaine Ort, Western Wayne Band director; John Kear, Ellie Motichka, Korianna Burgerhoff, and Molly Nagle.  Pictured behind row one:  Amanda Herald, Mason Coccodrilli, Keith Franc, Seth Lamberton, Samantha Davis, and Katherine Moore, all Western Wayne students who  participated in the event.  The following Western Wayne students will move on to Region Band which will be held this year at Central Columbia High School from March 23-25 with a concert open to the public on Saturday, March 25 at 1 p.m. at Central Columbia.  The students who placed include:  Katherine Moore, first place on Oboe 2; John Kear, third place on Clarinet 2; Korianna Burgerhoff fifth place on Clarinet 3; Molly Nagle second place on Trombone 2; and Mason Coccodrilli, second place on Percussion.  Ellie Motichka, Seth Lamberton, Amanda Herold, and Samantha Davis are all alternates.