Awards and Achievements

Four 8th grade students represented Weatherly Elementary/Middle School in the PMEA District 10 Intermediate Songfest on March 30th. The festival took place at Bangor Area High School in the Bangor Area School District. Schools in Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Schuylkill, Berks, Lehigh, and Northampton counties participated. Pictured from left are: Jacquelyn Gillot, Cyan Botch, Olivia Winheld, and Alexis Hartz. Amanda Derr is the Middle School Choral Director.

Mr. Bruce Brazzo, second from right, has donated several of his paintings to the Weatherly Area School District.  The paintings will be hung in both the Elementary/Middle School Building as well as the High School.

Accepting the paintings are: (from left to right) Denise Stadnik; HS Art Teacher, Thomas McLaughlin; WASD Superintendent, Brazzo, and Sue Lenhardt; Elem/Middle School Art Teacher.

On Thursday, December 15th,  Weatherly Middle School held the National Geographic Geography Bee for seventh and eighth grade students.  After a full morning of competition, the winners were: Ryan Kelly, 3rd place, Evan Kunkle, 2nd place, and Cyrick Thomas, 1st place and school champion.

In the rigorous competition, after seven rounds of questions, five seventh graders and  five eighth graders entered the final competition.  In addition to the winners, other finalists were: John Hinkle, Gareth Perez, Samantha DeSpirito, Maddie Hartz, Drew Solonoski, Kim Harrison and Summer Peck. 

Cyrick will advance to the next level of competition, a written examination to determine state competitors.  All school winners are eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $25,000 college scholarship, at the national competition May 22 - 24, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

Weatherly Area PTA recently announced the local winners of the PTA Reflections contest. The Reflections contest is an opportunity for students to use their creative talents by expressing themselves through their own original works. There are six categories: literature, music, photography, visual arts, dance choreography, and film/video production. This year’s theme is “Diversity Means...” The winning local entries will now advance to the next level of judging. Local winners are pictured.

Middle and High School winners are (L to R) Front Row- Vicki Luckwaldt, Samantha DeSpirito, Lynn Gunderman, Lynea Reiner, Samantha Knepper, Breena Coxe, Katlyn Sernak, Morgan Gower.  Second Row- Bree Hoffman, Sushant Arya, Kelly Fisher, Courtney Dickson, Vaness Richeson, Dylan McDonald, Abigail Ormiston.

Olivia Winheld and Heather Getten, both Weatherly Area 7th Grade School students, recently competed at the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit's Middle School Computer Fair in Schnecksville.  Their project, a Power Point presentation on Autism, earned them 2nd place overall in the Multimedia Presentation category.  They competed against all districts within Carbon and Lehigh Counties.  They were accompanied by teacher- sponsors Mrs. Jen Rockovich and Mr. John McGee.

Olivia Sipler is the winner of the National Geography Bee competition held at Weatherly Middle School on December 15^th.   This year’s competition was the closest race in recent years.  As the end of the competition, four students remained in the race to become Weatherly’s champion.  After an intense round of questions, Olivia won first place and Summer Peck took second place.  Morgan Mengel and Seth Harkins tied for third place.    The top ten finalists were Lee Nyer, Derek Coombs, Luke Reiner, Jessica Polchin, Samantha Hartz , Tyler Johnson and the place winners.  This was the second year in a row that a student, Tyler Johnson, won every question in the preliminary round.

Forty-eight 7^th and 8^th graders completed in this year’s bee.  After the preliminary seven rounds of questions, the top 10 students compete in a final round.  The top two students compete in a championship round for 1^st and 2^nd place.  Olivia will now advance to state competition if she scores high enough on a written examination, given after the school competition ended.

Judges and scorekeepers for this event are members of the Weatherly Area Academic team:  Joey Connors, Matthew Caccese (former Bee Winner at Weatherly), Andrew Vack and Christopher Hunt.

In photo, from left to right:  Summer Peck, Morgan Mengle, Olivia Sipler, Seth Harkins and Middle School Principal Sandra Slavick.