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SWIMMING & DIVING

2019 Boys Region 2 Champions2019 Girls Region 2 Champions

DistrictsBOYS 200 Medley Relay - Teddy Murphey, Ned Murphey, Max Myers, Tommy McWilliams (2nd) 200 IM - Teddy Murphey (1st), Ned Murphey (3rd) 100 Breast - Teddy Murphey (1st) - SCHOOL RECORD, Ned Murphey (4th)

SWIMMING & DIVINGGIRLS 200 Medley Relay - Audra Carnes, Rowan Hayes, Annamarie Habusta, Grace Buege (3rd) 200 Free - Ellie Kraus (1st) - SCHOOL RECORD 200 IM - Morgan Dougherty (6th) 50 Free - Grace Kocjancic (2nd) - SCHOOL RECORD 100 Fly - Halle Myers (2nd) 200 Free Relay - Halle Myers, Grace Buege, Grace Kocjancic, Ellie Kraus (1st) - SCHOOL RECORD 100 Free - Grace Kocjancic (2nd) - SCHOOL RECORD, Halle Myers (3rd), Ellie Kraus (6th) 100 Back - Morgan Dougherty (3rd), Audra Carnes (5th) 100 Breast - Rowan Hayes (5th) 400 Free Relay - Halle Myers, Rowan Hayes, Grace Kocjancic, Ellie Kraus (1st) - DISTRICT RECORD, SCHOOL RECORD

SWIMMING & DIVING

PIAA States

Front: Jesse Verner II, Teddy Murphey, Halle Myers, Sam Zablotny, Abby Knapp Middle: Luca Hokaj, Max Myers, Morgan Dougherty, Annamarie Habusta, Grace Kocjancic, Grace Buege, Audra Carnes, Olivia Wright Back: Gavin Rucks, Donovan Humberger, Ned Murphey, Ethan Weber, Tommy McWilliams, Rowan Hayes, Ellie Kraus

SWIMMING & DIVINGThe swimming and diving teams traveled to Lewisburg to compete in the PIAA State Championships at Bucknell University on March 12-15. During this time, the Tigers picked up 12 Medals, 14 All State awards, and 10 All State Honorable Mention awards. Eight of the 12 medals were gold, as the girl’s 200 Freestyle Relay and 400 Freestyle Relay were State Champions! Whether or not they won an award, the members of the Tigers swim and dive team made their coaches and parents proud as they demonstrated sportsmanship and team spirit. Thanks to all those who helped to make this a successful season!

Teddy Murphey 200 IM - 6th place

100 Breast - 5th place

Ethan Weber, Sam Zablotny, Teddy Murphey,

Tommy McWilliams 400 Freestyle Relay -

14th place

Ned Murphey 100 Breast - 9th place

(All State)

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Halle Myers, Ellie Kraus, Grace Kocjancic, Grace Buege

(School Record)

Halle Myers, Grace Kocjancic, Ellie Kraus, Rowan Hayes

(School Record)

Ellie Kraus 200 Free - 7th place 100 Free - 8th place

Grace Kocjancic 50 Free - 9th place

(All State, School Record)

100 Free - 12th place

Halle Myers 100 Free - 14th place

Audra Carnes, Rowan Hayes, Annamarie Habusta, Grace Buege

200 Medley Relay - 16th place

SWIMMING & DIVING

SENIOR State Qualifiers Max Myers, Rowan Hayes, Ned Murphey,

Grace Kocjancic, Tommy McWilliams

Historic Year

The Lady Girl Basketball team had a great year. They worked extremely hard and came together as a team to put together a historic season. The girls finished the year with the most wins in program history with a record of 18-7. They finished the regular season winning all their independent games with a record of 7-0. They finished second in the region and for the first time ever finished second in the district as well. The girls played for the first time in the District 10 championship game. The Lady Tigers beat Sharon and Greenville for their first two playoff victories in program history. They continued to play well towards the end of the season and competed in their very first state playoff game. The girls had a tremendous year with many memorable moments. The senior leadership by Ashley McCall and Georgia Nicewonger will truly be missed. They have helped lay a great foundation for our underclasswomen. The school and the community are extremely proud of how the entire team handled themselves on and off the court. Congratulations on such a special year. Go Tigers

Region 4 Champions 18-8

The Fairview boys’ basketball team enjoyed another successful season. The Tigerswent 18-8 and won the Region 4 championship for the third year in a row. The boysadvanced to their sixth straight District 10 championship game with big wins againstGreenville and Sharpsville. In the District 10 championship, the Tigers fell just short

with a 47-44 loss to Sharon. The season ended in the PIAA playoffs with a loss toAliquippa. The team represented the program and school in remarkable fashion.

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Fairview Tigers on an outstanding season. Keepthe Culture!

The Fairview boys’ basketball team enjoyed another successful season. The Tigers went 18-8and won the Region 4 championship for the third year in a row. The boys then advanced totheir fourth consecutive District 10 championship game with big playoff wins againstGreenville and Sharpsville In the District 10 championship the Tigers fell just short with a

Battle of the Books

Carpe Librum placed in the top third in this year's Battle of the Books competition that featured almost 30 teams from13 different schools.As a group, they read 25 books and answered trivia questions based on them at Gannon University on Friday, March 8.

"When in doubt, choose Nathaniel."

On March 7-9 five FHS students attended the PMEA Region 2 band held at North EastHigh School. They are: Sam Gidenko (clarinet), Emma Weichman (Horn), Adam Fox (clarinet), Jonah Hanlon (trumpet) and Lucy Chiapa (euphonium). After placement auditions on Thursday, Sam, Jonah, Emma and Lucy each placed in the top half their part with Jonah ranking second overall earning him placement into the PMEA All State Band to be held in Pittsburgh at the beginning of April.

PMEA Region Band

Our debut season ended on a high note and the Erie Insurance Arena performing during halftime at the Bayhawks game. Great job girls!

Pictured above: Kanisha Skelton, choreographer (front); left to right: Collette DiAngi, advisor; Alivia Temple; SaNae Stephens, captain; Autumn Wyatt; Leah McNerny, captain; Izzy Casler; Dana Barto; Juliana Bowes; Shannon Froehlich, advisor

FIRST Team 156 RPM – Robotics Plus Mayhem

Robotics March Madness has begun! And it is AWESOME!

On January 5, 2019, thousands of students and adults around the world watched intently as FIRST Robotics Competition revealed the 2019 game- Destination Deep Space. From that day until 1159 pm February 19th, 24 Fairview High School students and 8 volunteer mentors focused on designing and building a 125 lb. robot. After that date, the robot was literally bagged and untouchable until our first regional competition. To add to that extraordinary task, the team needed to complete essays, presentations, CAD, marketing, business plan, website, fundraising, and safety education, just

to name a few. Hundreds of hours in the evenings and weekends, sometimes 7 days a week, were spent on completing all of these tasks.

On March 7 at 230 am, students and mentors worked together to load a Coach bus with all the Pit supplies and our robot, IntrePID, to start our journey to Dayton, Ohio to compete in the Miami Valley Regional with 59 other teams. The days were long and for about 50% of the team this was their first competition. The team was unwavering even with their inexperience. Students were fixing the robot, programming, scouting, marketing, presenting, and being interviewed

through March 9th. Everyone worked together like a well-oiled machine without any complaints. The end result led to a robot that could do every task, 2 semi-finalists for Dean’s list, the Team Spirit Award, and runner up for the Safety Award. The Team Spirit Award "Celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST." Or in other words, we love what we are doing and genuinely care for each other which lead to positive outcomes and relationships.

Our next regional is March 21st-March 23rd at California University of PA where we will compete with 43 other teams. We are excited to see what happens at this competition and will share it with you in the next issue. Hopefully you watched the live streaming of the event in the library or at home and rooted us on. Either way, we cannot wait until next year’s new game and this year’s outreach events. We can proudly say that we are a team that has become a family!

Keep up to date with us by checking out our website www.rpm156.com where you can find links to our social media!

The 2019 State Tournament for the Pennsylvania High School Speech League took place on the campus of Bloomsburg University March 15-16. Two students represented Fairview High School. Mia George competed in Impromptu, an event where students draw a topic at random and have five minutes to prepare a speech that lasts no longer than five minutes. Carter Houston competed in Prose Interpretation. This is an event where a competitor, with text in hand, uses vocal talents to bring to life a ten-minute portion of a novel or short story. Carter’s selection was A Child Called “It”, a true story of child abuse written by Dave Pelzer. Carter, along with five other students from across the state, advanced to the final round in Prose. He finished second in Pennsylvania. After a bit of a break, his season will continue in May at the NCFL Grand National Championships in Milwaukee. Although his NCFL event is Dramatic Performance, he will still use Pelzer’s novel. In DP, students must have the piece memorized and are allowed more freedom of movement.

“This tournament was my first time trying Impromptu as an event, and my prompts were pretty open-ended, giving me a lot of freedom in my speeches. The theme for round one was colors, and I gave a speech about ‘kelly green.’ I connected the color green to deforestation, opening with the infamous quote from Kermit the Frog, ‘It’s not that easy being green.’ My other two topics were similarly open to interpretation: ‘If you were an insect, which would you want to be?’ and ‘The greatest gift we can give one another is ____.’ Because it was my first time in the event, giving speeches about these topics on the spot was a challenge. However, it was also an interesting chance to exercise my quick-thinking skills and overall proved to be a fun experience.” -Mia George

On March 6, students taking French 3, 4, 5 and 6 had a visit from Dr. Paco Maginot. In 2006, Paco was a student at the Lycée Renaudeu, Fairview’s sister school in Cholet, France. He was also a participant in our exchange program. Paco hosted then senior Shea Grimaldi in June and in October lived with the family of junior Katie Fitzgibbon (better known now as FMS teacher Mrs. Flaherty). Paco recently took a break from his job in France to spend four weeks touring the US. After seeing California, Utah, the Grand Canyon and more, he wanted to visit Fairview and reminisce about his visit just over twelve years ago. He was also kind enough to chat with the upper-level students about his recent travels, his life as an adult, his job as well as his friend from school Rudy Gobert, center for the Utah Jazz. He pointed out that they were younger, he used to beat Rudy when they played basketball. It was nice to have Paco back, even if it was just for a few hours!

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Reading Banned Books?!

Ms. Iapalucci’s 10th grade English class is learning about censorship as

part of a larger argumentative unit. They each selected a book to read

from the American Library Association’s “Frequently Challenged

Books” list and argued if it had enough literary merit to be part of a

school curriculum.

We said not goodbye but see you later to Mr. Lowe as he headed off to Argentina for his Fulbright Scholarship bringing Special Education to indigenous communities of rural Argentina. Mr. Lowe is off to Argentina and still educating us from abroad, bringing to life some of the lessons he taught in the classroom.

All classes in Profe’s room have been focusing on culture as well. We competed in March Music Madness creating a bracket of current Spanish music from artists all over the Spanish-speaking world. AP Spanish learned about current events in Venezuela and environmental issues in Ecuador, while Spanish 3 learned about Argentina through the movie Valentín.

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In the month of March, Mrs. Nies's and Mr. Brinling’s Current Events and Law Courses have been busy getting lessons from the

real world. The classes hosted two guest speakers; Deputy Ras and Attorney Alex Cox. Deputy Ras met with the class to further

explain the policies of search and seizure and the arresting process. He answered questions from the students regarding

code red situations and provided insight to pursuing a career in law enforcement. We appreciate all that Deputy Ras does to help

keep our school a safe place for all. The second guest speaker was Attorney Alex Cox, a civil lawyer with the Knox Law Firm in

Erie. Attorney Cox walked the class through the process of becoming a civil lawyer and what types of cases he deals with on a typical basis. At the end of March, the classes visited Edinboro

University to celebrate women’s day. The students heard presentations on women in the Supreme Court, debates and laws

on abortion and how music has influenced women’s freedom.

Upon learning about the history of Africa and the

destruction of African culture by the Europeans, Mrs. Nies’s Honors World

Cultures students were asked to recreate the original “Scramble for

Africa” political cartoon.

Electrochemistry AP Chemistry

AP Chemistry students experimented with electrochemistry by creating a series of micro-scale half-cells using strips of metal placed into solutions of their ions. The students measured various voltages with a multimeter, which is dependent on the electrochemical potential of each half-cell.

Personal Finance students had a fun week completing IRS Form 1040 and learning about taxes. Students were provided

with a W2, IRS Form 1099-INT, and a client biography. Students analyzed each line of the 1040 to determine what was relevant to the client. Students also discussed the new

2018 tax laws. Included among the highlights of the 2018 tax law is the standard deduction doubling to $12,000 for single filers. With a higher standard deduction, tax returns will be

simplified in 2018 for most filers since many will not benefit from itemizing.

Students also started each class with a current events article discussing taxes. The majority of the articles discussed how

tax returns were lower compared to last year. Students analyzed a client biography and found that he actually paid less in taxes in 2018, compared to 2017, despite receiving a

smaller refund in 2018. This occurred because the client’s withholding was less throughout the year. Students also learned that withholding is the amount of money that is automatically deducted from paychecks and sent to the

government. Students found that in many cases when people owed money to the IRS, they or their employer did not adjust

their withholding for the new tax laws.

Students ended the unit by comparing various online programs that offer free tax returns for high school and

college students. Students compared TurboTax, Tax Act, H&R Block, Tax Slayer, and Credit Karma. The majority of students found that TurboTax was the best option for them. Students

also learned that many of these programs have surge pricing, so you can save money by filing your return in February.

If students plan to attend college, they should research the American Opportunity Tax Credit for College, Coverdell

Education Savings Account, and the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit. Additional information can be found within the IRS

Publication 970. Many students also discussed how contributing to an IRA can save them money on their tax bill,

along with giving them a more secure retirement plan.

All photos taken courtesy of Zach Lafaro

Personal Finance

Honors English II The Honors English II students are discussing in their literature groups critical topics about William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. Each student also will select ten questions from their discussions to write short essay responses. These students are digging into grammar, too, with a focused study on pronoun reference errors so that they can proudly wear the t-shirt announcing to the world that these experts are silently correcting others’ grammar. The third area of learning culminates before Spring Break with a cumulative test of the students’ study of Greek and Roman roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Public Speaking The public speaking students just completed a commemorative speeches unit for which the students could present a eulogy, a testimony or tribute, or an award presentation or acceptance speech. The class presented these speeches on the auditorium stage with a microphone and lights to their audience, some of whom emotionally responded. (I only cried three times.) Shout out to Mrs. Hitt for all of

her assistance in making these speeches real! The students will present their demonstration speeches before they leave for vacation. The class will be shown how to do magic tricks, how to lift weights, how to decorate a cake (and eat it, too!), and how to do calligraphy, among lots of other topics!

March

Teacher

Luncheon

The FHS Life Skills classroom worked hard

again to provide a lovely luncheon for the

FHS staff on Friday, March 15th. On the

menu this month was: Tuna and Egg Salad

croissant sandwiches, grapes, chips &

pretzels with homemade Oreo Balls. Fun

was had by all!

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FIRST TEAM vs SECOND TEAM

22 FEB

NOONAN SYNDROME

AWARENESS DAY

2019 FHS

On February 22nd, 2019 the FHS Life Skills room celebrated Noonan Syndrome Awareness Day together. This day was celebrated with a yummy Chick-fil-A luncheon

and an awareness presentation. FHS Life Skills class celebrates everyone’s unique qualities but how we are also more alike than different.

FHS Life Skills classroom celebrated World Down Syndrome Day through

rocking wacky socks and enjoying a yummy pizza

luncheon complete with an awareness presentation

from senior, Cullen Hanlon. Cullen shared with his peers:

“I’ve got an extra chromosome but it makes

me extra special!”

Congratulations Fairview School Foundation

February Students of the Month

Larry Jackson Junior

Matthew Niland Senior

Brendan Heidt Sophomore

Renee Griffin Freshman