Mars Area The Ryan Gloyer Middle School (RGMS) Student Council members were recognized as National Student Council of Excellence winners. Mars Area High School Student Council collected $7,243.23 to benefit Four Diamonds as part of the school’s inaugural Mini-THON fundraiser. This initiative assists children fighting cancer at Penn State Children’s Hospital and their families through care, support and research; and, funds projects that search for a better understanding of why and how childhood cancer occurs as well as new ways it can be treated.
Mars Area High School students Mia Ola, Ashley Edwards and Vincenzia Vargo were selected to receive Society of Women Engineers Pittsburgh Section certificates of merit. Mars Area High School senior Mia Mannuppelli received a 2019 Henry Mancini Award nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of Belle in the school’s production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. The “Giant Diencephalic BrainSTEM Robotics Team,” members of which include Mars Area junior Adrian Adrian Zugehar, comZugehar peted at the FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championships, held April 24-27 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.
Mars Area sophomore Mia Ola was selected to receive a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship. Mars Area Elementary School students and staff members collected more than $1,700 to benefit Mars Area Public Library through a one-day “Coin War.”
Shady Side Academy Shady Side Academy has received the second-largest gift in its 136year history, a $5.2 million gift to the financial aid endowment that will ultimately fund seven scholarships for Shady Side students in grades 6-12. The gift was made in honor of late SSA Middle School Headmaster David A. Mancosh Sr. and his wife, Rose Marie, by a group of anonymous donors. Jesse Robinson will join Shady Side Academy Senior School in August 2019 as Jesse the director of Robinson the new Glimcher Tech and Design Hub, an innovative, 8,500-square-foot space dedicated to robotics, fabrication, engineering and computer science that is currently under construction and scheduled to open for the 2019-2020 school year.
St. Joseph Saint Joseph High School Senior Leah Grady was accepted to Gannon University’s LECOM Leah Grady (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine) pre-
med program. Leah has been awarded the top merit-based scholarship: Founders Scholarship, valued at $21,500 per year times four years. Rosanne Pucciarelli, a teacher at St. Joseph High School in Natrona Heights, Rosanne was nominated Pucciarelli for the Hannah E. (Liz) MacGregor Teacher of the Year History Teacher Award. The MacGregor Teacher of the Year award is sponsored by James F. Harris in honor of his sister and is awarded to one middle and one high school teacher annually.
Providence Heights Alpha School Providence Heights Alpha School eighth grader Louisa Jen of Cranberry Township has been selected as a 2019 Carson Scholar.
of Science. She achieved a perfect score at the regional level. She was also awarded the PJAS Chemistry Gina Award with a Palladino $100 prize, the Duquesne University Excellence in Science Award, the CMU Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology DNA Zone Award and the Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society 2019 Award for Excellence in Chemistry. Additionally, Gina also won Awards from Covestro, Kennametal and Braskem.
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Providence Heights Alpha student Gina Palladino won awards at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy
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