Students perform their interpretations of how volcanos become the islands that make up Oceania for World Cultures.
The robotics club had a long day yesterday competing at the State Championship. Both teams and their robots performed amazingly. Andrew Wachter, Moira Erhartic, and Beckham Barnhill's robot got ranked 6th overall during the day and lost in the quarter finals. Since mid December they have put over 500 man hours into the team and their robots.
Team members:
Brionna Anderson, Beckham Barnhill, Anthony Basile, Moira Erhartic, Jared Gavio, Vivian Liu, and Andrew Wachter.
Students in Mr. Blystone’s classes enjoyed playing Pickleball this week, we even had a couple special guest players.
Courtesy of the Fairview Foundation, Erie Experience classes received a tour of the Erie Maritime Museum. The students boarded the Niagara, learned about shipwrecks of Lake Erie, discovered what life was like for the sailors and the science behind how the flagships operated.
Fairview School Foundation's FHS February student of the month. These students were recognized for our first pillar of ROAR, which is Respect.
9th grade environmental science students conducting qualitative tests to detect inorganic water pollutants in the laboratory
All three levels of FHS ceramics students are engaged in their artistic endeavors! We have such great crews of students!
Students completing a lab in Mrs. Groff's College Prep Biology class.
Intro to theatre class improvising “pictures” incorporating a single prop - a chair
Last week Ms. Borro's 11th grade English students finished up a research project. Her students have been learning about the indigenous people of North America and their relationships to early English colonists. For the project, each student was to select one group of indigenous people to learn about. In these photos, students are peer conferencing about their papers.
Jabin Bull, Clara D'Silva, Gianni Mastrostefano and Annika Biggs represented Fairview High School at the PMEA Region II Band festival in Meadville, PA this past weekend. They were among 160 high school musicians from just over 50 different school districts that got together to rehearse, audition and perform a culminating concert on Saturday. Jabin, Clara and Annika all finished in the top half of their instruments based on their audition and the concert was amazing!!
Students in the Erie Experience courses attended a field trip to the Wood-Morrison Home (part of the Hagen History Center), the Wayne Block House, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home and Perry Square as part of their unit of study on maritime and military history in Erie.
The 2nd semester AP physics students are analyzing projectile motion.
Our first Chopped Chef Champions of the semester are Keira Graham, Nathanael Ayala, Sofia Ortiz and Ethan Dongre making a Broccoli Pasta with Crab. Great job to our Chopped Champions!
Athletes from our unified bocce team enjoyed themselves during a pizza party for an awesome season. A big thank you goes out to DriveErie, LLC for sponsoring them this past season and to our amazing staff who officiated our matches.
Did you know that interacting with a therapy dog can reduce blood pressure, promote physical healing, and reduce anxiety and depression? Maggie and Evie take turns coming to school and hanging out in the AHN Chill Room to share all their love for our FHS students! Both girls celebrated BIRTHDAYS this week! Check out this link for Therapy Dogs United to learn more about how dogs can support people!
https://www.therapydogsunited.org/about/
Students use their knowledge of Uno to practice geometric proof formats and process. Starting with an Uno card, they must use the other provided Uno cards, matching either the color or the card, to arrive at the conclusion card.
Gabe Farkas, Andrew Wachter and Jabin Bull represented Fairview High School at the PMEA District 2 Jazz festival held at Collegiate Academy this past weekend. They rehearsed and performed with 74 high school musicians from 18 schools across northwestern Pennsylvania.
Students in Mrs. Quiggle's World Cultures class work to outline the stages of the Demographic Transition Model and the characteristics of each.
This year, with the help of the Fairview School Foundation, students at FMS had the opportunity to join MathCounts! MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person “bee” style contests. This year's competition took place at Gannon University for students who qualified in 6th-8th grade this past weekend. Great job to Grace Liu (7th), Lennon Cook (8th), Aaditya Girish (7th), James Lin (8th), Chloe Smith (8th), Noah Estrich (7th), Shri Veeranki (7th), and Shoaib Essa (8th) who represented FMS at the competition! Fairview took home 3rd place for the team round, consisting of Grace Liu, Lennon Cook, Aaditya Girish, and James Lin. Lennon Cook took 4th place and Grace Liu took 5th place individually, qualifying them for the State Competition in Harrisburg next month! We also held a school competition for 5th grade students, and are happy to congratulate our winners Jeffrey Lin, Cadan Robertson, Giovanni Imbrogno, Tanishq Sharma, and Nicholas Bloom! We are so proud of all our mathletes that took an interest in this program!
