Recently, 5 girls from the 7th grade traveled to Penn State Behrend for the 29th Annual Math Options Career Day. They participated in a variety of hands-on interactive workshops that demonstrated careers and educational opportunities related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields.
Over the Memorial Day weekend, members of Fairview's Speech & Debate team were in Chicago for the NCFL Grand National Championships. They were among approximately 2000 students from across the US. Four Tigers managed the difficult task of breaking into Day 2 of the competition - the highest number to do so in at least 28 years! Theo advanced to the semi-final round of Student Congress; Anish and Lucky were octo-finalists in Declamation. Lucky then advanced to the quarter-final round before bowing out, placing 16th - 3 places higher than last year! In Extemp, Peter also made it to quarters and placed 22nd, outdoing his 26th place finish from last year! Congrats to these four as well as to Ulyana, Tanmay and Shaheer who also qualified for the tournament! It was an amazing season!
Nine students from Fairview Middle School - Jailyn Bull, Jenna Bull, Lennon Cook, Mariya Hoja, Nora Khan, Maha Rallapalli, Sahasra Talla, Logan Thompson, and Shri Veeranki - recently competed at the PJAS State Meet, located at Penn State University. Each student designed and conducted professional experiments, and they presented their findings to a panel of judges. These students performed exceptionally well, earning eight First Awards and one Second Award. Logan Thompson even earned a perfect score. Congratulations to these participants for their impressive projects!
Pre-AP Biology students, Corbyn Pontier and Sarah Adams, successfully transform bacteria with pGLO.
Spanish Club and our Spanish classes wrapped up a great year with comida deliciosa. AP/Spanish 6 took a field trip to use their Spanish at Dina’s Dominican Kitchen and Spanish Club learned a variety of candy names as part of their candy salad final fiesta. ¡Que tengan un buen verano!
Another successful year for PJAS participants. (Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.)
Ten FHS students qualified for State PJAS in Jan. and presented at the State meet this past weekend. FHS achieved five 1st place awards and five 2nd place awards. Among those was Cate McGinty who was recognized with a Perfect Score and she received a plaque for Excellence in Biology.
Seniors, Jocelyn T, Amani T, and Aditya T, were recognized for 4-6 years of perseverance.
Pictured are Kashyap A, Anish P, Ulyana H, Jocelyn T, Quinn M, Cate M, Yatish S, Jared G, Amani T, and Aditya T.
A special thanks to Miss Tasha Williams, AmeriCorp for FMS, who attended as a chaperone and driver. Her presence was valuable and appreciated.
On Wednesday, May 22, 2024 the 5th grade class took part in a school day in support of the Erie SeaWwolves. A group shot was managed before the rain came. Definitely a memorable day!
A special thank you to Mr. Anderson, Mr. Macrino, and their interns from the Hagen History Center for coming into the Erie Experience classes today and hosting a game on Erie baseball history and general Erie history. The game was educational and enjoyable! Then the Erie Experience classes enjoyed a field trip to the Erie Seawolves’ game courtesy of the Fairview Foundation.
Four Fairview Middle School students from 7th and 8th grade competed in the regional Challenge 24 Competition today in Edinboro at the IU5. Rayteb Alkhudari, Lennon Cook, and Grace Liu all made it through Rounds 1 and 2, and 7th grader Aaditya Girish competed in the finals earning himself a silver medal! Great job everyone!
Upon completing a mini lesson on beach glass in the area, the Erie Experience classes took a class trip down to Avonia Beach to try their skills at beach glass hunting.
Some of Mrs. Flaherty's students released 128 healthy rainbow trout fingerlings into Lake Pleasant Tuesday morning. Students also participated in a water quality test and a bio blitz to look for local macro invertebrates and vegetation. All in all it was a great day!
The Algebra II students were recently graphing rational functions.
The 8th grade trip to Washington, DC was a huge sucess. Pleae enjoy just a few of the good memories captured over the weekend.
The Erie Experiences classes were treated to a day of education, entertainment and experience courtesy of Beaumont Industries located in Fairview, PA. The staff at Beaumont went above and beyond to make the students feel welcome; including touring the facility, sampling their products, and holding a luncheon with the some of the staff. Beaumont Industries is another example of what makes Erie a unique and interesting place to live!
FHS Photo & Art Exhibition at the 1020 Collective.
Mrs. Fair's sophomore ELA classes created their Lord of the Flies symbolism masks this week. Students were encouraged to think outside the box and create symbols for the novel through colors, nature, and even movie references. This week, students will write the accompanying essay to explain the symbolism on their mask and how each aspect connects to the novel.
The Erie Experience classes had the complete "Erie Summer" experience today- beginning the day with a tour of Waldameer, followed by lunch at Sara's, and a visit to Beach 6. A special thank you to Fairview alum, Brian Gorman, for leading the Waldameer portion and allowing a special ride on the Ravine Flyer II for the class.
Erie County Technical School Student of the Month.
For the second round of our Survivor of the Mathematicians competition, students in Mrs. Jones' Honors Geometry classes created engaging presentations to explain their mathematicians' contributions to the mathematics field. Some of the groups created their own games based off of their mathematician, including a Hypatia themed Clue game to uncover how Hypatia died; a game of Float or Sink? based off of Archimedes buoyancy principal; and a game of 2 Truths and a Fib(onacci) to learn fun facts about Fibonacci.
Erie Experience classes were entertained by former FBI Detective Jerry Clark's presentation on the Pizza Bomber Case. Following the discussion, the classes toured Gannon's Forensic Lab as well.
