Mr. Kelchner's 8th grade Science students built and launched model rockets in the annual project that is part of the study of human spaceflight. After building and spray-painting the rockets over the course of a week, the launches took place on Monday, May 20. Students competed for the highest, straightest flight, as well as a successful parachute deployment and recovery. The highest-flying rockets reached altitudes of nearly 1600 feet. 🚀
The Class of 2028 (8th graders) have also been participating in a variety of celebration activities prepared by their teachers during the last full week of school. These include the aforementioned model rocket launches, a tug-of-war battle of the homerooms, a kickball tournament, a poetry competition, and a civil war field day featuring reenactors, experts, and artifacts. Congratulations to Mr. Kelchner's homeroom for going undefeated in the double-elimination tug-of-war tournament bracket! 🐯
Please see the attached flyers for information about our summer Softball Camps. 🥎
Please see the attached flyers for information about our summer Softball Camps. 🥎
Middle School Envirothon students recently attended the Susquehanna Valley Envirothon at Montour Preserve. It was a great day of learning about Pennsylvania wildlife, aquatic ecology, forestry, soils, and land use. Special thanks to our local county conservation districts for hosting this incredible event each year! 🌿🐟🌲
The following students were chosen by the 6th Grade team at Southern Columbia Middle School as April's SoCo Stars of the Month. These students were chosen because they have displayed self-control, tolerance, academic integrity, and resilience within the school setting. Congratulations to each student and their families!
April 2024: Luken Greco, Zachary Hoagland, Victoria Haupt, and Logan Maschuck
Please see the attached flyers for information regarding the Field Hockey camp being held from July 29 through July 31 on the turf at Tiger Stadium. 🏑
Fourth Grade students who will be moving up to middle school next year paid a visit Miss Johnson's classroom today. They made cupcakes and had a tour of the school. 🧁🏫
Miss Johnson’s class enjoyed planting flower seeds on Friday. 🌸🌼🌺
Faculty at the high school bid farewell and good luck to some of tomorrow's best and brightest educators! Ellie Rowe, who spent time with Mrs. Troutman and Miss Stine, and Lily Savoy and Kimberly Speece, who worked with Mrs. Becker and Mr. Williams, will be graduating from Commonwealth University on Saturday. Southern Columbia wants to thank these ladies for their time and efforts with our students and wishes these future teachers all the best in their career endeavors.
The SCA Lady Tigers Basketball team is hosting a "Mother and Son Night of Fun" THIS FRIDAY for Boys in Grades K-5. Attendees can register that day, and there will be extra cost for the food truck and raffle baskets. Please see the attached flyer for more information! 🏀 ⚽🎾⚾
Don't forget: Our fantastic May display of musical and artistic talent begins tonight. Doors open at 6 pm for the Catawissa Military Band Concert and the SCA Art Show. Every student who is enrolled in a High School Art elective will have at least one piece on display. 🎺🎨
The following students were chosen by Fifth Grade Staff at Southern Columbia Middle School as April SoCo Stars of the Month. These students were chosen because they have displayed self-control, tolerance, academic integrity, and resilience within the school setting. Congratulations to each student and their families!
April 2024: Colton Richard and Emma Jones
"Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever." -Julie Andrews
We at SCA are excited to showcase a fantastic May display of musical and artistic talent. Please see the flyer for more details on next month's events. 🎶🎨
"Friendship is More Powerful than the Sun Itself." This quote is by 5th Grade student Alex Frields. Sun drawings for this installation were created by all 5th graders. Alex, thank you for inspiring the idea for this creation with your original quote!
Please join us for us for our Spring Concert Series. See the flyer for dates and times! 🎷🎶🎺
On April 11th and 12th, after an eight-week learning process, 8th graders in Mr. Kelchner’s science classes presented their sustainable building design projects to a panel of engineers. The winning group was selected by a guest engineer who played the role of the building owner. The winners included Jack Garrigan, Carter Mensch, and Garrett Pesarchick. These students presented the details of their design with knowledge and professionalism. Their building had terraces and overhangs that gave it character, and it included a unique outdoor dining area for the building’s employees. They described an array of thoughtfully chosen energy-saving features and amenities, while still managing to come in just under their allotted budget of $20 million. Their “design firm” was able to win the contract by demonstrating how their systems reduced the operating cost through lowered electricity and water bills, using their calculated reductions to justify their design choices. Among other prizes, they will have their names engraved on the classroom trophy that features all past winners of the competition.
A big thank you to the guest judges who generously gave of their time again this year to be with us for two days. These included Eric Fedder, 2005 SCA valedictorian, architectural engineer, and senior project manager for Project Management Advisors Inc. of San Diego, California; John Kelchner, electrical engineer and retired President & CEO of Citizen’s Electric Power Company in Lewisburg, PA; and Noah Blusius, SCA alumnus, architectural engineer with Alexander Building Construction in Harrisburg.
Congratulations to all 8th grade students for your outstanding effort and successful collaboration on a very challenging real-world project!
Students in Mrs. Nestico's 6th Grade Math class learned how to organize data this week. Students worked in groups stacking coins as high as they could and when their towers fell over, they recorded the number of coins they used. They repeated this process and found the mean, median, mode, and range of their data.
Both middle and high school students attended a CSIU sponsored drone building event at the Montour Preserve. Students were paired to follow directions in drone building, a meticulous feat that required patience and attention to detail. After building, students were able to code and fly the drones to test their hard work. Gifted students in the fifth grade enjoyed the mentoring from high school Aviation/Gifted students in this cooperative experience. Ms. Frey, Mr. Roughton, and Mrs. Roughton led the field trip.
The following students were chosen by the Sixth Grade staff at Southern Columbia Middle School as March's SoCo Stars of the Month. These students were chosen because they have displayed self-control, tolerance, academic integrity, and resilience within the school setting. Congratulations to each student and their families!
March 2024: Shane Jacobs, Violet Beyer, Ashlynn Sharkuski, Gavin Manney
The following students were chosen by Fifth Grade Staff at Southern Columbia Middle School as March SoCo Stars of the Month. These students were chosen because they have displayed self-control, tolerance, academic integrity, and resilience within the school setting. Congratulations to each student and their families!
March 2024: Charlie (Charlotte) Paul and Orion Mourey
