Fairview's Speech & Debate team kicked of the 25-26 season November 5 at Cathedral Prep for the first CFL of Erie tournament of the year. Maddy Poese, Ulyana Hoja and Mariya Hoja all placed first in their events, Dramatic Performance, Student Congress and Extemporaneous, respectively. They also earned scholarship for Gannon University.
Five Choir students from FMS and FHS had the opportunity to attend the 2025 IU5 PMEA Jr. District Choir festival on November 7th & 8th. The festival took place at Corry High School with guest director Mr. Bruce Yates, retired General McLane music teacher. 150 students were in attendance including Jenna Bull (9), Sid Ganeshan (8), Arianna Herrera (7), Chloe Snyder (8) and Claire Thompson (8). Jenna was also selected to perform a solo in the piece "Give Us Hope."
Fairview High School won Best Large School and Best Overall School (1st place overall) at the Gannon Model United Nations Conference this weekend. 30 Fairview delegates contributed to this team win, including Vishvak Mamidala and Chloe Smith (3rd place in their committee), Masa Alkhudari, Ananya Desireddi, and Emily Gravelle (2nd place in their committees), and Charles Allen, Sadhikya Boga, Ava Duncombe, Harsha Murali Santhakumari, Olivia Jardina, Nena Pfeffer, and Logan Thompson (1st place in their committees).
AP Biology students Anna Buhl and Tessa Trudnowski use bioluminescence to study quorum sensing and cell signaling between different strains of bacteria. The bacteria in the bottom of the petri dish cannot glow on their own, but the can "hear" the chemical signal sent by the glowing bacteria on the the top and respond by also displaying bioluminescence.
Business Day at Behrend: Fairview Business students had a chance to visit Penn State Behrend and see college professors in action teaching a variety of business classes. They took a tour of the campus and visited college classrooms.
Before students can apply strategies for finding probabilities and interpreting them they must understand the vocabulary of probability. Students used a game called dice shuffleboard to begin to understand the important terms. After the game they gave examples from the game for each term.
Fairview School Foundation's FHS October students of the month. These students were recognized for our second pillar of ROAR, which is Ownership.
Miss Ramsay's Public Speaking class wrapped up the quarter by presenting their final Oral History projects to family, friends, and teachers. Students interviewed people in their lives to explore the stories that connect our community and deepen our understanding of the past.
Congratulations to Jocelynn Terella for being nominated to the Erie News Now Northwest PA CLASS Act Emerging Leader by the FHS English department.
Halloween costume contest at FHS.
Dr. Tim Bianco of Allegheny College visited Economics students in Mr. Brinling's class. Dr. Bianco shared his experience with the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States as well as advice on careers in economics.
Students in Baking Basics are completing their observations from our science experiment lab! Each group made chocolate chip cookies, testing a different leavening agent or amount of flour. Our control group cookie used 1 tsp of baking soda. Other groups used 1 tsp of baking powder, 1/2 tsp of baking powder and a 1/2 tsp baking soda and no leavening agent. We then had two groups that went back to 1 tsp of baking soda but changed the amount of flour to more or less than the control. This was a great way to see how baking truly is a science!
Fashion 1 students worked hard to complete their sewing project before the end of the quarter! They needed to cut and pin their fabric before sewing! They got to choose the amount of stuffing their pillow had and hand sew the opening closed!
Grade 9 American Studies students create white board notes about World War I home front topics to prepare for class presentations in Mrs. Nelson’s classes. Our essential question: How did the “Great War” war affect the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens?
Sam expended a lot of calories conducting high-level research at Mercyhurst University for his AP Research paper. Luckily, he could replenish his calorie loss in the MU cafeteria. He indulged in what amounted to three lunches, and he finished up his meal with a pile of waffles gelled together with heaping gobs of Nutella. Bravo, Sam!
Mr. Barbour's AP Research students visited the Mercyhurst U library to continue finding peer-reviewed sources for their research project. The reference librarian helped a lot, and the students did an incredible job. That second 15-source annotated bibliography should be complete soon!
The Current Events class toured Mercyhurst University's Intelligence studies program. The students got an Intel overview, toured the CIRAT Center and engaged in some experiential learning discussions. Thank you to Mercyhurst University for this wonderful opportunity!
The College Prep physics determines the coefficient of friction of two different surfaces.
The AP physics is examining the relationship between centripetal force, radius and mass of rotating object.
Financial literacy students are learning about taxes and how to file tax returns. To gain confidence in the process, students completed a basic federal tax return using a simple W2 and a 1040.
