Here is some positive news from around NWLSD this week
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12/8/17
District PTA
NWLSD Reflections 2017-18
Within Reach
Winners & Honorable Mentions
Literature
Primary (Pre-2)
Winners
Estelle Armstrong - MHE
Intermediate (3-5)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Layla Klotz - MHE Harrison Young – MHE
Emily Bickett – MHE Madison Martinez – MHE
Arzan Hozdar – MHE Erica Watson - MHE
Middle (6-8)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Lydia Maynus – CMS Mariah Tucker – WOMS
Emma Lane – WOMS Karli Smith – WOMS
Alyssa Rose – WOMS Harper Gable – WOMS
High (9-12)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Erin Roberts – NWHS Ryan Moore - CHS
Lily Frey – CHS Emma Waywood (Un Paso Ma’s)- NWHS
Emma Waywood (My Road) – NWHS
Music Composition
Middle (6-8)
Winner
Elijah Thacker – WOMS
Visual Arts
Primary (Pre-2)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Samantha Busken - MHE Lydia Taphorn - CE
Evelyn Stine - MHE Marissa Arents - MHE
Madison Helton – MHE Maddison Meyers - CE
Intermediate (3-5)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Kassia Bramstedt - MHE Cecilia Mitiska - CE
Audrey Stockburger - MHE Addison Freeland - PRE
Myasia Smith - PRE Maayaa Nevis - CE
Middle (6-8)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Elijah Smith - WOMS Pranish Adhikari - WOMS
Peyton Allen – WOMS Abigail Abraham - WOMS
Amber Wurzelbacher - CMS Elia Lies - CMS
High (9-12)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Brennan Moore – NWHS Sofia Ausdenmoore - CHS
Kaia Armstrong – CHS Tia Greenlee - NWHS
Maria Gonnella – CHS Noah Davis - NWHS
Dance Choreography
Intermediate (3-5)
Winners
Alayna Detzel – MHE
Taylor Gatherwright – MHE
Middle (6-8)
Winner
Cas Detzel – WOMS
Photography
Primary (K-2)
Winners
Zakry B. Davis – MHE
Intermediate (3-5)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Olivia Carter – MHE Maddyson Haffey - MHE
Grace Ruter – MHE Madison Klein - MHE
Alex Thiemann – MHE
Middle (6-8)
Winners
Allie Staudigel – CMS
Harper Gable – WOMS
High (9-12)
Winners Honorable Mentions
Shelby Lutz – CHS Madelynn Frey - CHS
Elyssa Picchioni – CHS
Ujal Rai – CHS
CHS
Butler Tech just published an article today in regards to one of our Seniors at CHS.
She is a semi-finalist for the U.S. Presidential Scholars program, and one of only 5 nominated in the entire state of Ohio.
Here is the article with more information:
Also below:
Butler Tech Senior Named U.S. Presidential Scholars Semifinalist for Ohio
Tara Sprandel, a senior in Biomedical Science at Butler Tech, has been named one of five U.S. Presidential Scholar semifinalists for Career Technical Education (CTE) in Ohio. Sprandel will be recognized at the Ohio Association for Career Technical Education Legislative Seminar in January 2018. She will also receive an invitation to apply for national recognition by the U.S. Department of Education, which selects up to 20 high school CTE students annually for its U.S. Presidential Scholars program.
Sprandel chose to study Biomedical Science at Butler Tech because of her interest in becoming an oncology specialist. “Everyone’s been impacted by cancer, and it’s just very interesting to look at a disease that has impacted such a large percentage of American families, even internationally,” Sprandel said. “I want to look deeper in on it, even how diet could influence the origin of cancer. I’m very interested in nutrition and how that can impact health as well.”
Sprandel was just recently accepted to The Ohio State University, where she plans on majoring in Pre-Medicine. She is on track to graduate Butler Tech already earning 24 college credits through seven Ohio College Credit Plus courses and three AP courses. She has been inducted into the National Technical Honor Society, serving as chapter president, and is active with the Health Occupation Student Association (HOSA). Sprandel is among the top six percent of her class at Colerain High School, where she also played varsity softball.
“Tara is a role model student,” said Danielle Mink, one of the Biomedical Science instructors who nominated Sprandel for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. “If you were to look for her at any moment during the day, you would find her actively engaged in her school work.”
Lisa von Haefen, who also instructs Sprandel in Biomedical Science, notes that she has excelled in laboratory research skills including DNA fingerprinting, analytic biochemistry, and molecular biology. “Tara has grown into an inquisitive learner and researcher who strives not only to understand concepts, but to use them to develop innovative concepts and ideas in the area of medical devices, public health policy, and environmental health,” von Haefen said.
Sprandel says that career technical education in high school has given her the ability to learn skills and explore careers that most students don’t get until college – including a chance to observe a gastric sleeve bypass surgery. She says that old perceptions that CTE is just for workforce training need to be dispelled. “When we come to Butler Tech, we’re preparing ourselves for college. Especially PLTW (Biomedical Science), we’re all interested in physician careers or forensic careers, which all require a lot of college,” Sprandel said.
This is the second year in a row for Butler Tech to have a student named as a semifinalist for the Ohio CTE component of the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, and the second to come from the Northwest Local School District. In 2016, Carlos Boyd from Butler Tech’s Financial Services Honors program at Northwest High School was also named a semifinalist. He is currently attending Washington University in St. Louis, where he received a full scholarship, while also serving as the national treasurer for Business Professionals of America.
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 to honor the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. It was expanded in 2015 to recognize students enrolled in career technical education programs. Each year, up to 161 students are named as Presidential Scholars.
SE
The students at Struble Elementary, in the unit for students with Multiple Disabilities, served a Thanksgiving Feast to family and friends. Each year, the week before Thanksgiving, the students plan, prepare, and serve a Thanksgiving Feast. This has been a tradition in my classroom for many years. This year was an extra special year. The Struble family, as we now know it, will change at the end of this school year. In order to say "thank you" to our Struble family and share our love with them one more time, we made the feast an entire building event. Altogether, we served eighty people. With the help of our teacher assistants, cafeteria friends, other support members in our building and donations from some local grocers, we were able to prepare two twenty-two pound turkeys, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, corn pudding, sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green bean casserole, dressing, a vegetable medley, salad, cranberry sauce, and rolls. We also has a plethora of various desserts to satisfy the sweet tooth. It was a feast fit for a queen! Along with our staff and supervisors, our students invited their families to share in this meal. For the entertainment pleasure of all in attendance, our students sang some of their favorite songs karaoke style. It was a warm and wonderful experience we will cherish for years to come.
Some of the adults who came to our feast wrote something they were thankful for on a leaf and added the leaf to our forest of trees.
PRMS
Pleasant Run Middle School PTA is proud to announce that they held their first Empty Bowls Project on the evening of November 14.
The Empty Bowls project was started by a Michigan Art teacher, John Hartom, in 1991 as part of an international grassroots movement to eliminate hunger.
PRMS art club, student council, other students, parents, and staff spent months creating handcrafted, ceramic bowls.
PTA invited guests to an Empty Bowls dinner where they were fed a simple meal of homemade soups, salads, and desserts, all donated by Rolling Hills Baptist Church, in exchange for donations that were given to Mt. Healthy Alliance and Corpus Christi food banks. Entertainment was provided by the PRMS band.
Guests got to keep their handmade, empty bowls as a reminder of the dinner and that someone in our area does not know where their next meal is coming from. It was a wonderful community event that brought many people together to support food banks that help the people in our school district.
Over $800.00 was raised for the food banks. PRMS PTA plans on continuing this event for many years to come.