Updated SoCo ESports team picture…credit goes to Alex Morrison!
SCA has an ESports Rocket League team. This amazing team won all 12 games against Danville in last night’s scrimmage! Congrats!
This week in Mr. Rarig’s 8th grade Advanced STEM class, students constructed dowel rod towers to hold weight. Later in the week, they made a trip to the weight room to test how much weight their tower could support.
Contributor: Allyson Griscavage, High School Journalism Student
Southern Columbia Encore will be performing songs from previous musicals to raise money for future shows. Come and reexperience your favorites, old and new!
Where?... Southern Columbia High School auditorium
When?... April 23, 7:00 pm
Admission is $5.00, further donations are not required, but are greatly appreciated.
The breakfast and lunch menu for April 2022 has been posted. All students receive a free complete meal daily through June of 2022.
Please see the menu here https://5il.co/17znx
2022-23 Kindergarten Registration is open. Parents/Guardians can go to https://www.scasd.us/page/student-registration-process to start the process.
Eighth grade students have been taking part in a six-week-long STEM project in Science class where they collaborate in teams to design sustainable, energy-efficient buildings. Each team has a $20 million budget and must decide on the best ways to meet the desired goals of the potential building owner. Along the way, they perform a variety of experiments to learn about renewable resources and sustainable construction practices. The experiments include exploring the benefits of a green roof system, studying how wind flows around buildings of various shapes, measuring how sunlight reflects off various buildings and onto the surrounding highways, testing how the position of a solar panel affects its ability to generate electricity, and investigating how blade angle affects the efficiency of a wind turbine. Once the design process and exploration are completed, students will create deliverable items to showcase their building designs. These items include a blueprint, a scale model, a site plan of the property, and a breakdown of energy and water costs and savings. Each team will use these items to "pitch" their designs to a panel of real engineers who will join us as judges. In the end, one design team will be chosen by the engineers as the winning company.
Students in Mrs. Habowski's class recently worked on an informational story. They also engaged in reading, discussing, and learning informational facts about frogs. After reading the story, students in her group sculpted frogs to go along with their written informational facts.
On Tuesday, March 29, Mrs. Troutman and Mrs. Roughton took two teams of four students to the 23rd Annual High School Math Contest held at Bloomsburg University. The students were involved in a Quiz Bowl, the Game of 24, and various Brainteasers. Attending students included: Jaron Ferrara, Wyatt Roadarmel, Brock Dunkelberger, and Savich Chapman (Team 1), and Joseph Quinton, Jake Rose, Michael Zsido, and Gabe Leffler (Team 2). Out of approximately 30 teams, Southern Columbia's Team One (Ferrara, Roadarmel, Dunkelberger, and Chapman) placed sixth in the Game of 24 and eighth overall in the head-to-head quiz bowl.
Agriculture Awareness Day will take place on Saturday, April 2, at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds. Please see the flyer for additional details.
The Southern Columbia pickleball tournament has returned for the first time in 2 years. All students in grades 9-12 are eligible to play. The tournament features co-ed, girls and boys brackets. These games are expected to run through the end of April.
After learning about wood frogs in class, Mr. Roth's 7th grade science class went to the vernal pools of our very own nature trail to get up close and personal with these awesome amphibians!
On Thursday March 24th the Southern Columbia Area School District kicked off the inaugural season of SCASD eSports with the very first scrimmage against Danville Area High School. The following is a YouTube link to all the action from the scrimmage. https://youtu.be/T_0e3SKjR-Y
Good Luck to Coach Anskis and the players on their upcoming matches.
26 new members were inducted into the Spanish National Honors Society during a Spanish ceremony on March 23rd. These students are all completing their third year of Spanish each with a minimum 93% cumulative average. The inductees are listed below.
David Ardila-Hidalgo
Taryn Betts
Jenna Billig
Reese Brophy
Heather Cecco
Sayla Chapman
Tori Conway
Eliza Fenstermacher
Jaymen Golden
Maddie Glasgow
Aubrey Heath
Jacob Hoy
Conlan Kaczmarek
Camryn Kirkner
Elle Lyons
Sagel McGinley
Aubrie Miller
Kate Moncavage
Trinity Neff
Brandi Patterson
Jenson Purnell
Emily Reese
Jake Rose
Brendan Santore
Camryn Snyder
Molly Thomas
This week, Mrs. Zysset's Parenting class got to take a little day-long adventure with a hands on learning experience. Each class member took a baby home for a day and got a little peak at what life as a parent would be like.
Recently, students bought paper flamingos to place on the door of their teacher of choice, knowing what the consequences would be for their intended educator. Mr. Venna edged out Mr. Yost and Mr. Fegley to earn the right to dress in the bright and elegant flamingo costume for one whole day. This SMART fundraiser is one that middle schoolers will never forget.
Check out BloomCON Hak4Kids, a free program to teach kids the good side of hacking, produced by the Bloomsburg Children's Museum. The event this Saturday, March 26, 2022, at Bloomsburg University, is free for students aged 7 through 17, and their parents/guardians. Adults must accompany their children during the event. Pre-registration is required. https://www.bloomconhak4kidz.com/
3rd grade students in Mrs. Hower’s classroom worked on their pen pal letters. These students received letters from pen pals in Alabama. Information the students included in these letters were as follows: their favorite movie, song, animal, and school subject. This is a year long project and they will continue to keep in touch with their pen pals.
We will be having a cereal drive from today through April 12th. We are hoping to beat last year's number of 850 boxes of cereal so we can create an even longer domino run.
Please help us to help families in our district. All donations will be sent to the Elysburg and Catawissa food banks. Let's collect some cereal and make some memories!!
All donations can be sent into the Elementary building.
Hey all you flying fans...here is a great opportunity for our SCA community to take part in a benefit for the Youth Aviation Scholarship from the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). Try to Run the Runway!
