PMEA District 9 Orchestra Festival to be Held At Western Wayne

Western Wayne High School is proud to host the annual PMEA District 9 Orchestra Festival. It will be the very first PMEA event held in the newly renovated Veterans Memorial Auditorium. 124 students representing 24 schools around the area will participate in the three day festival which culminates with a concert on Saturday afternoon. Five students from Western Wayne will be represented in the ensemble: Dakota Schaffroth, Katherine Moore, John Kear, Amanda Herold, and Mason Coccodrilli. These students along with their peers earned chairs in the orchestra by auditioning back in November 2017.

The concert will be Saturday, February 10th @ 2pm and is open to the public. The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors.

From left: Katherine and Dakota

Updated Schedule for Tuesday, Feb 6

Tomorrow, Tuesday 2/6/18
Boys Basketball vs Abington, home, JV 6:00 Varsity 7:30
Girls Basketball @ Abington, JV 6:00 Varsity 7:30
Freshman Basketball @ Abinton 4:00
JH Wrestling Tri-Meet- home with Valley View and Del Vall-6:00

ATTENTION WW HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS – FAN BUS PLANNED FOR WRESTLING ON SATURDAY, FEB 3

There will be a fan bus on Saturday, Feb 3 for the District II, AA Wrestling Finals against Honesdale. The bus will leave from the high school at 12:00 PM for Pittston Area High School. The total cost is only $5.00 for the bus and your ticket!! Sign up outside the AD office on Friday! GO CATS BEAT THE HORNETS!!

Western Wayne FBLA Members Attend Regional Leadership Conference

Over 80 members of Western Wayne FBLA attended the Regional Leadership Conference on December 19, 2017 at the University of Scranton. Over 400 students and advisers from 10 area school districts that make up Region 22 were in attendance at the conference.

Members running for regional office gave their campaign speeches during the opening session. Ezra Tetreault was elected Vice President of Region 22 FBLA for the 2018-2019 school year.

The top 5 winners in each event were announced during the award ceremony. Western Wayne FBLA had the following members place in the top 5:

In Accounting I, Ben Burkhart, 1^st place, Claudia Kovaleski, 2^nd place and Kaitlyn Juhasz, 3^rd place, Accounting II, Dakotah Sopko, 1^st place, Mia Giordano, 2^nd place, Advertising, Drew Harsche, 4^th place, Agribusiness, Jake Brodowsky, 5^th place, Business Communications, Lucas Scott, 5^th place, Business Law, Samantha Pritzlaff, 3^rd place, Computer Applications, Cheyenne Stenlake, 1^st place, Computer Problem Solving, Emily Barone, 1^st place, Business Ethics, Alexandra Buckman, Taylor Burdick, and Summer Franklin, 3^rd place, Client Service, Gianna DeBastiani, 2^nd place, Entrepreneurship, Austin Boguski, Evan Coons, and Jake Kunz, 1^st place, Hospitality Management, Gracie Guarino, Melissa Petrilak, and Journey Sosa, 4^th place, Impromptu Speaking, Kirstin Metschulat, 2^nd place, Introduction to Business Procedures, Kendra Franklin, 3^rd place, and Cassidy Asinski, 4^th place, Introduction to FBLA, Sydney Peet, 1^st place and Caleb Hoch, 2^nd place, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures, Darlene Black, 1^st place, Kate Mattern, 2^nd place, and Brendan Fitzsimmons, 4^th place, Introduction to Public Speaking, Lenny Maiocco, 1^st place, Job Interview, Danny Boots, 4^th place, Management Decision Making, Laura Booths, Ashley Kline, and Sky Smith, 1^st place, Marketing, Abby Burke, Lilli Millon, and Krystal Tregaskis, 4^th place, Parliamentary Procedures, Morgan Amorine, Caitlin Falloon, Mallory Jablon, Allison Mattern, and Hannah Roedel, 1^st place, Public Speaking, Samantha Atcavage, 2^nd place, Spreadsheet Applications, Julia Sennefelder, 2^nd place, and Word Processing, Jillian Dudley, 1^st place.

Western Wayne FBLA was also awarded 2nd place for Outstanding Chapter.

Members of Western Wayne FBLA also had submissions in state-only events. Students complete a project and submit it to Pennsylvania FBLA to be judged. The top 10 submissions are then notified if they will perform in their given event at the State Leadership Conference.

The following members have been notified that they are eligible to compete at the State Leadership Conference in Hershey:

The Digital Video team of James Sommers, Jason Telese, and Skyler Skold, the Introduction to Business Presentation team of Trina Barcarola, Noelle Orehek and Ezra Tetreault and Laurel Frable in Sales Presentation.

Thirty-eight members of Western Wayne FBLA are eligible to attend the State Leadership Conference at Hershey in April.

Western Wayne Receives Educational Alliance Grant

Each year Exxon Mobil gives millions of dollars in grants to schools nationwide. They have a long history of supporting educational programs, like Educational Alliance, that focuses on improvements in math and science from pre-school to higher education. Exxon believes it is fundamentally important to encourage the next generation to pursue studies and careers involved in these fields. This year Western Wayne High School was one of 16 schools in the state of Pennsylvania that Liberty Petroleum Distributors, based out of Scranton, working with Exxon Mobil was able to present with an Educational Alliance Grant for 1,000 dollars for use in its math and science programs. From left are Jennifer Bradley, Western Wayne High School Assistant Principal; Paul Krewson, District Manager for Liberty Petroleum Distributers; Maria Masankay, Co-Chair of the Western Wayne High School Science Department; and Ted MacDonough, Chair of the Western Wayne High School Math Department.

Physician Assistant Student visits from St. Francis University

On December 20, 2017 the Anatomy and Physiology, AP Biology and Honors Chemistry students had the opportunity to learn from Miss Diana Hassan, a Physician Assistant Student from St. Francis University. Miss Hassan is a 2013 Western Wayne Graduate and will be completing her Master’s Degree in the Physician Assistant program in May of 2018. Diana spoke with students about her research on the disease Meningitis. Her presentation entitled Meningitis: A True Medical Emergency gave students information about the varying causes of Meningitis as well as symptoms and treatments. This information was particularly valuable for students who are college or military bound and will be living in close proximity to one another.

Miss Hassan educated students on the importance of seeking medical care if a person is suspected of suffering from Meningitis and classic symptoms that are associated. She also shared statistics and information on the varying pathogens that can cause the disease at different stages of life. Students had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the disease . Diana then spoke to the students about her college pathway and how she attained her degree. Students were grateful to hear about such an important topic from a Western Wayne graduate. We are thankful to Diana for sharing her expertise and her career pathway with our students. We are wildcat proud of Diana and her accomplishments!

Western Wayne Holiday Baking

Western Wayne Cooking Students Create Holiday Projects Creating delicious sweet treats isn’t only a job best suited for Santa’s elves. At the Western Wayne High School, students in Mrs. Stephanie Zoppi’s Basic Foods class along with her other culinary classes have been working all month to create a variety of decadent holiday cookies and treats.

Cappuccino cookies, craisin cookies, gingerbread cookies, and lemon butter cookies are all endeavors they have taken on this holiday season just to name a few. The students say they enjoy learning new recipes and baking techniques from Zoppi. Many of them chose to take Basic Foods because they have always loved cooking and baking with their families.

From left: Felicity Sickler, Zane Janiszewski, Caitlyn Burdick, and Maggy Langendoerfer prepare lemon butter cookies in preparation for the holiday as a part of their Basic Foods class at Western Wayne High School.

Girls Varsity Basketball Team off to a great start!

The girls traveled up to Towanda this past weekend and took home the prize: Towanda Tip-Off Champions! Great way to start off the season.

Congratulations Coach Wolff-Scranton Times and NPF Coach of the Year

Scranton Times – In his second season, guided team to wins in its first six games which included three by shutout and finished season 7-4 overall. Wildcats qualified for the District 2 Class 3A playoffs for the first time in school history which began in 1973. Has 13-9 career record.

NPF – In his second season as a head coach, he helped lead Western Wayne to its first-ever District 2 home playoff game. … Guided team to seven regular-season wins, improving his record to 13-9 in 2 seasons. … Led team to wins in its first five games. … Got the defense off to a fast start, with consecutive shutouts to begin the season and just seven points allowed while posting three shutouts in the first four games. … Won an Eastern Conference championship in first season as coach.

FBLA State Leadership Workshop

The students all gathered for an opening general session to kick off the event and then had their choice of a variety of workshop sessions and presentations. These sessions covered a variety of essential information that FBLA students looking forward to continued academic and professional success could benefit from. Pictured are Western Wayne students who attended the event.

Row 1, from left: Julia Sennefelder, Cosette Talarico, and Abby Gogoloski.
Row 2, from left: Claudia Kovaleski, Jillian Dudley, and Grace Hollister.
Row 3, from left: Laura Booths, Skye Smith, Laurel Frable, and Allison Mattern.
Row 4, from left: Gracie Guarino, Paige Barillo, Journey Sosa, and Melissa Petrilak.
Row 5, from left: AJ Merone, Brandon Garnett, Gianna DeBastiani, and Samantha Atcavage.
Row 6, from left: Bailey Walck, Jake Ortola, Dylan Walck, Evan Coons, and Ezra Tetreault.