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School News
Clockwise from top left:
State Science Day
participants; Art students
with their work; Brigadoon;
Whitney Porter (center)
receives Speak Out award;
Holocaust Remembrance
Quilt.
Eight Students
Advance to
State Science
Day
Eight STVM students
participated in State Science
Day, held at The Ohio State
University.
Earning a Superior Rating
were: Colleen Demboski,
Kelsey Lecerf, James Lloyd,
Jonathan Stone, and Abigail
Tanner. Tyler Chopko ,
Muhammad Taha, and Nora
Wisor all received Excellent
ratings. Congratulations!
Speak Out
Whitney Porter, a junior,
has been selected as a
winning finalist in the “Kids
Speak Out” essay contest
hosted by WVIZ/PBS
Ideastream and Time
Warner Cable. She has been
invited to a luncheon at the
Idea Center in Cleveland
where she will be presented
with a $1,000 scholarship she
can use toward her education.
Students in the Advanced
Placement American Studies
class entered their argument
essays related to the prompt:
If you had 30 minutes with
the next president of the
United States, what issues
affecting Ohioans would you
want to discuss and why?
Whitney’s topic was
“Arctic drilling and its
environmental impact.”
Whitney will also be involved
in a WVIZ taped panel
discussion which can be
viewed on Time Warner
Cable this summer. Junior
Alexandra Horning also
earned recognition in the
contest with an Honorable
Mention for her essay about
“The importance of federal
funding of the Arts.”
Holocaust
Project
During the week of April
21st, all of the freshmen
were involved in an Interdisciplinary
Project in both
their Religion and their
World History classes that
integrated their study of the
themes of Catholic Social
teaching with the study of
the Holocaust and genocide.
The freshman student’s
project for the week was to
design and decorate a quilt
square, with the squares then
tied together to make a
Remembrance Quilt that will
be a legacy of the Class of
2011 and on display for a
time in the Social Justice
Center.
The week concluded with
a Mass on Friday, celebrated
by Father Ignatius Joseph
Kury VM94, pastor of Holy
Ghost Ukrainian Catholic
Church.
Teachers involved in the
project included Dept.
Chairs Ms. Pam Godshalk
(Social Studies) and Mrs.
Lorrie Haddox (Religion)
and Mr. Dave Dages, Mr.
Glenn Griffin, Mrs. Joanne
Kropf, Mrs. Nannette
Roberts, Mr. Ed Petrina, and
Mrs. Mary Anne Anderson.
Art Students
Win At The
Governor’s
Exhibit
As reported in the Irish
Items, April issue:
The Ohio Governor’s
Youth Art Exhibit had a bit
of competition from the
weather during the weekend
of March 8-9, but the
following STVM students
won at the Local and
Regional level: John Wilson
(junior) – Pastel Drawing
and Katie Paolucci (senior) –
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