Awards and Achievements

WASD Students Host Party at Heritage Hill

WASD Webmaster — 2013-05-23T17:41:51Z

Members of Ms. Kufro's family and consumer science class recently hosted a party at Heritage Hill Senior Community for the residents involved in the Learn and Serve Program. The food for the party was prepared by the class and taken over to Heritage Hill for both the residents and the students to enjoy. During the party, activities director, Deb Hauze, provided beverages and games for the group.

In the picture, left to right, Stephanie Jamgochian, Nellie Johnson, Olivia Sipler and Morgan Mengle. In the backround on the left, Dustin Dugon.

Certificate of Achievement Given

WASD Webmaster — 2013-05-10T17:30:31Z

These students were given a certificate of achievement by the Weatherly Area School Board at the May 8th meeting. The students were 1st place winners in the state of Pennsylvania in two different competitions. The students seated won 1st place in the eCybermission Competition, sponsored by the US Army, in the 6th grade level. The students in the back row were members of the Weatherly High School Engineering Team who placed first in the state and seventh in the nation in Part One, Division One, in the TEAMS competition, "Engineering a Secure Cyberspace".

Students seated, left to right, are Nikki Polivka, Jeremy Moser, and Nicholas Berger. In the back row, left to right, are Mrs. Leach, advisor for both teams, Brittney Isom, Michael Embick, Jaquiline Watkins, and Thomas McLaughlin, WASD superintendent. Missing from the photo are Cassidy Piskorick and Michael Matirko, both members of the Engineering team.

All students in the photo will be receiving a citation from Rep. Doyle Heffley from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for their achievements at the state level.

German National Honor Society

WASD Webmaster — 2013-03-26T14:12:52Z

The Weatherly Area HS German National Honor Society recently held their induction ceremony at the Weatherly Country Inn. Pictured are Stu Tripler, HS Principal, inductee Jaquiline Watkins, Miss Heidi Holinowsky, German Teacher, inductee Katie Ray, and Thomas McLaughlin, Superintendent.

Catherine Maleski Becomes Semi-Finalist in Poetry Contest

WASD Webmaster — 2013-03-08T18:11:00Z

Weatherly Sophomore, Catherine Maleski, had advanced to the semi-finalist round of the National Amateur Poetry Competition. In addition to being published in "In My Lifetime", Catherine will be eligible for 121 gift and cash prizes. Catherine's poem was titled, "The Axis".

Mercedes Writer Wins 2nd Place in Great Teacher Essay Contest

WASD Webmaster — 2013-02-27T17:00:00Z

WVIA announced the winners of the 16^th annual “Making a Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest” on their website, which includes a second place win for Weatherly Area School District Senior, Mercedes Writer. Mercedes’s essay honored Ms. Bobbi Ann Kufro, Weatherly Middle/High School Family and Consumer Science teacher. Mercedes wrote, “What she saw in me I didn’t see in me”. To read the entire essay, please visit WVIA’s education website at http://www.wvia.org/educational and scroll down to a text box with tabs across the top, then choose “Great Teachers Essay”

In the photo, L to R: Ms. Kufro, Mercedes Writer

Weatherly Hosts Carbon County Band Fest 2013

WASD Webmaster — 2013-02-26T17:45:10Z

The 53rd Annual Carbon County Band Festival was held at Weatherly Area Middle School Gymnasium on Thursday, February 21, 2013. The festival showcased 123 student musicians representing Jim Thorpe, Palmerton, Panther Valley, Pleasant Valley, Lehighton, and Weatherly high schools and was conducted by the directors at each respective school. Seniors Laura Palmer and Jaquiline Watkins traveled to Conrad Weiser High School in January to perform in the District 10 Band Festival. Laura Palmer will travel to Bangor High School in March to represent Weatherly at Region 5 Band Festival.

Pictured below are the representatives from Weatherly Area High School.
Front row L to R: Brittney Isom, Sara Heister, Alexis Berger, Tea Heister, Heather Cichowic, Vanessa Richeson, and Director Shannon Shughart.

Second row L to R: Kelly Parker, Lindsay Douglas, Laura Palmer, Maura Kelly, Jaquiline Watkins. Top row L to R: Joshua Reiner, Tanner Titus, and Dylan McDonald.

Weatherly Student Becomes National Merit Scholar

WASD Webmaster — 2013-02-06T18:12:58Z

Michael Embick, a Weatherly Senior, has recently been named a national merit scholarship finalist by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Of the semi-finalists, only approximately 15,000 finalists are chosen. From the group of finalists, three types of awards are given to selected students: a one-time scholarship of $2,500; a corporate sponsored award or a college sponsored award.

At Weatherly, Michael is involved in Cross Country, Envirothon, and the National Honor Society. He is a member of the Math and Engineering teams and captain of the Weatherly Scholastic Scrimmage team. For his Senior project, he tutored students in math for classes offered in the Weatherly district.

In the community, Michael volunteers with the Weatherly Lion’s Club and the Weatherly Area Community Library. He plans to major in electrical engineering or computer science. Michael is the son of Delbert and Christine Embick, Weatherly.

Weatherly Student Advances to Semi-Final Round in Poetry Contest

WASD Webmaster — 2013-01-21T19:10:00Z

Brittany Lowman, Senior, has been notified that her poem, "My Lost Heart, Mind, and Soul", has advanced to the semi-final round of the National Amateur Poetry Competition, sponsored by Eber and Wein Publishing . Brittany's poem, "earned the honor in a volume of contemporary poetry entitled, In My Lifetime", which will be sold on both Amazon's and Barnes and Noble's website according to contest sponsors. In the next few months, authors will be notified if they have won one of the 121 cash and gift prizes. The grand prize winner will receive $2,000.

Homecoming

WASD Webmaster — 2012-09-27T14:08:14Z

Weatherly Area High School celebrated their homecoming on Saturday September 22nd, 2012. Saturday morning held the girl's Varisty soccer game at 10 am against Jim Thorpe High School, in which the Lady Wreckers won. The Varsity Boys then played Saturday afternoon at 2pm against MMI valuably but were unable to come up with a victory. The homecoming court was recognized at half time of the boys soccer game.

Saturday night at the homecoming dance the homecoming court was crowned

Second Runner up: Jackie Watkins, Lexi Berger, and Charlie Wallish

First Runner Up: Tara Galada and Kevin Hinkle

King and Queen: Joey Haganey and Alexis Boyarski

Academic Top 10 Dinner

David Russell — 2012-06-11T12:37:31Z

Weatherly HS students recognized at Academic Top 10 Dinner

Weatherly High School's Top 10 senior academic students were honored recently at a dinner. The dinner was held at Capriotti's in McAdoo and was sponsored by the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce.

Pictured are Superintendent Tom McLaughlin, Alicia Panzarella, Karlee Ursta, Becky Moyer, Tiana Genetti, Jaime Dougherty, Andrea Dietrich, Sarah Dolinsky, Chris Hunt, Matt Caccese, WHS Guidance Counselor Ron Kelshaw, and WHS Principal Stu Tripler.

Weatherly German National Honor Society

WASD Webmaster — 2012-05-02T12:10:00Z

Weatherly High School recently inducted 2 students into their German National Honor Society.
Pictured are, from L to R, Thomas McLaughlin, WASD Superintendent, Matthew Caccese, Alicia Panzarella, and Heidi Holinowsky, HS German Teacher.

Weatherly’s eCybermission Team – 1st Place, Ninth Grade, in Pennsylvania

WASD Webmaster — 2012-04-27T12:10:00Z

eCYBERMISSION is a web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) competition for students in sixth through nine grades, sponsored by the U.S. Army. Teams are challenged to solve a problem in their community by using either the scientific method or an engineering design. This year’s team members, Alexander Hamm, Samantha Hartz, Tea Heister and Brett Kelly entered the “Food, Health and Fitness” Category and tackled the problem of health and fitness for our students. The team used the engineering design to test wood to use in making a portable sidewalk to our schools. This would help make a morning walk to school safer and promote walking to school.

The students worked diligently to complete the lengthy mission folder, required in this competition. They gathered resources to back their ideas and designed and built a prototype of the side walk they thought would be the best design. Each team member will receive a check for $500 from the eCybermission program. State Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) presented each team member a certificate for this accomplishment. The team would like to give special thanks to Mrs. Rodgers for use of her room during the experimental phase of the mission.

To learn more about the eCybermission program, visit www.ecybermission .com. “eCYBERMISSION is designed to share the importance of STEM education with the leaders of tomorrow and encourage them to understand the real-life applications of these subjects”.

In the picture, L - R: Brett Kelly, Samantha Hartz, Tea Heister, Alexander Hamm

Chris Hunt- USAMO Qualifier

WASD Webmaster — 2012-04-12T12:25:00Z

Chris Hunt, a senior at Weatherly Area High School is one of nine students in the state of Pennsylvania to be a qualifier for the most prestigious high school math contest in the United States. There are only 500 students selected throughout the Unites States to compete for the honor of representing the United States in the International Math Olympiad.

After taking the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), Chris was invited to take the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) and with his combined score from the AMC and AIME, he qualified for the USAMO. The USAMO exam will last for 9 hours over a two day period. The exam contains only six questions, three on the first day and three on the second day. If Chris does well in the USAMO, he will be chosen to be on the United States of America Math team in the International Math Olympiad to be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

The AMC, AIME, and USAMO are all contests sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The MAA “is dedicated to the goal of strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation’s youth.” One way they reach this goal is to “identify, recognize and reward excellence in mathematics through a series of national contests.” For more information about the MAA, go to their website at: http://www.maa.org/.

Chris has been an outstanding math student and won two first places in individual math contests held at Bucknell University and Marywood University during this school year. Chris placed third of all twelfth graders at the 2012 Lehigh University High School Math Contest, and earned a place on the Lehigh Valley American Regions Math League team. The Weatherly Math team, with Chris as a member, has won first place in math contests at Bloomsburg University, Muhlenberg College, and at Bucknell’s Gold Math Exam.

Picture, L to R: Thomas McLaughlin (Weatherly's Superintendent), Chris Hunt, and Stuart Tripler (Weatherly High School Principal)

Weatherly Engineering Team is 1st in Pa

WASD Webmaster — 2012-04-12T12:20:00Z

The Engineering Team from Weatherly Area School District is again first in the state of Pennsylvania for Division One in the TEAMS(formerly JETS) competition! The TEAMS competition, held at Bucknell University, is conducted in a written competition format, with teams of four to eight students to face off during two ninety-minute parts:

Part 1: Teams try to answer eighty multiple-choice questions, requiring participants to apply math and science knowledge to unique situations.
Part 2: In a short essay format, students must answer eight questions, and expand their ideas as they explain their answers for engineering solutions.

“The one-day competitions take place at over 100 locations between February 13 and March 12, 2012 through a partnership with high school educators, universities, corporations, and professional organizations. Involving more than 10,000 students, schools and groups compete just one day during the four-week period vying for competition day, state, and national rankings and awards.” This year’s theme focused on the engineering involved in healthcare and medicine.

This year, Weatherly's Engineering team consisted of five members: Matthew Caccese(Senior), Sarah Dolinsky(Senior), Michael Embick(Junior), Christopher Hunt(Senior) and Lucas Rinker(Senior). To find out more about TEAMS or to view 2012 State Rankings, go to:

http://teams.tsaweb.org/teams/about/

On the site, click on “2012 State Rankings” in the left navigation column, then click on Pennsylvania. Weatherly’s team competed in the 11^th/12^th grade category, Division One.

First Picture, L to R: Matthew Caccese, Chris Hunt, Sarah Dolinsky, Michael Embick and Lucas Rinker

One More Math #1 for Weatherly!

WASD Webmaster — 2012-04-10T12:32:17Z

Marywood University hosted a high school math competition on March 25th, and Weatherly's Chris Hunt received the top score and a monetary prize in the Level II competition. In one hour, Chris answered 39 out of 40 questions correctly.

In the picture, L to R: Front row - Chris Hunt, Michael Embick, Lucas Rinker. In the back row: Alicia Panzarella and Sarah Peiser