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
“You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” -John Bunyan
Our school is lucky enough to have seven students serving our communities as junior and regular firefighters. Students Hunter Sharrow, Chase Compton, Cameron Traugh, and Aidyn McHale are all volunteers at Valley Chemical Fire Department in Numidia. Students Aidan Wetzel, Austyn Balchunas, and Ryan Davis are volunteers at the Elysburg Fire Department. These dedicated students spend much of their time serving the communities and responding to emergencies. Both companies are always looking for more junior/regular firefighters. A person must be at least 14 years old to participate in the junior firefighter program. If interested, please see the attached flyer from the Elysburg Fire Department.
Contributor: Aidan Wetzel, Journalism Staff Member
Elizabeth Stamm is currently serving as a student teacher in Ms. Burcicki's 7th Grade ELA classes. Learn more about this aspiring educator and Rebersburg, PA, native below! 🏫🎒
REMINDER! ... Support our Middle School Gifted students by voting for their video as many times as you wish at the link below. Voting closes TONIGHT at 11:59 pm:
https://www.whatssocool.org/contests/central-susquehanna/ 📽️🎥
Today some of the SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) members attended the Youth Mental Health Summit at the Lewisburg Campus Theatre. They presented on their violence prevention and mental health awareness work here at Southern. The keynote speaker was recent SCA graduate and inaugural Southern SAVE officer, Sienna Sosnoski. This Summit was organized by the CSIU and offered the opportunity for many local schools to share similar student groups with other districts.
Students in Fifth Grade Science class recently conducted a celery dissection to identify xylem and phloem.
Miss Johnson's class dyed eggs using turmeric, red cabbage, red onion skins, yellow onion skins, red beets, and blueberries. Then the students guessed what colors the eggs would turn out. The reveal was not what was expected! 🐰🐣🥚
Support our Middle School Gifted students by voting for their video as many times as you wish at the link below:
https://www.whatssocool.org/contests/central-susquehanna/
Voting is open NOW for the Viewer's Choice award for the Central Susquehanna What's So Cool About Manufacturing? video contest. Voting is open thru 11:59 P.M. on March 28.
The contest videos were created by students from Bloomsburg, Central Columbia, Mount Carmel, Huntingdon, Williamsport and Southern Columbia middle schools and feature the following manufacturers: West Pharmaceutical Services, Bloomsburg Carpet, Gardners Candies, GAF, Great Dane, and Press Enterprise. Two of these teams will move on to the statewide contest in May.
The 2024 Central Susquehanna What’s So Cool About Manufacturing contest is produced by IMC, CSIU, The Foundation of The Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce, BLaST IU 17 and Advance Central PA.
Support our Middle School Gifted students by voting for their video as many times as you wish at the link below:
https://www.whatssocool.org/contests/central-susquehanna/
Voting is open NOW for the Viewer's Choice award for the Central Susquehanna What's So Cool About Manufacturing? video contest. Voting is open thru 11:59 P.M. on March 28.
The contest videos were created by students from Bloomsburg, Central Columbia, Mount Carmel, Huntingdon, Williamsport and Southern Columbia middle schools and feature the following manufacturers: West Pharmaceutical Services, Bloomsburg Carpet, Gardners Candies, GAF, Great Dane, and Press Enterprise. Two of these teams will move on to the statewide contest in May.
The 2024 Central Susquehanna What’s So Cool About Manufacturing contest is produced by IMC, CSIU, The Foundation of The Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce, BLaST IU 17 and Advance Central PA.
Students in Mr. Williams' 8th Grade STEM class are continuing with their exploration of robotics. Students are designing and coding Lego robots to complete and solve specific tasks in the classroom. Students are recalling their coding-skills, which have been taught earlier in the year, and combining them with their problem-solving skills in order complete the task at-hand.
The SCA Lady Tigers Basketball team is hosting a "Mother and Son Night of Fun" on Friday, May 10 for Boys in Grades K-5. Please see the attached flyer for more information! 🏀
Miss Johnson's class visited Tharptown General Store & Pizzeria where her students learned how to make their very own personal pizza. They loved their finished products. Yum! 🍕
Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Check out the socks on these guys!
Here are our 8th Grade SoCo Stars for the month of February!
⭐Alexandra Picarella, nominated by Mrs. Serafini
⭐Hannah Manney, nominated by Mr. Kelchner
⭐Ellen Mika, nominated by Dr. Cole
⭐Ethan Mika, nominated by Ms. Guffey
Thursday, March 21, is World Down Syndrome Day. Please join in and have your children wear colorful/mismatched socks and/or blue and yellow to school. 💙🧦💛
