Effective Tuesday, March 1, 2022, students, staff and guests in the Warren City Schools will no longer be required while indoors to wear a mask or facial covering, rather this will be optional.
This also applies to individuals using WCS transportation.
Superintendent Steve Chiaro announced this change in his Monday, February 28, 2022, message. Please refer to the full message HERE.
The McGuffey Titonics robotics team is advancing to the FIRST Lego League State Finals for the second year in a row.
The team consists of 10 students from grades 4-8 who compete in the four areas of Project, Core Values, Robot Design and Robot Table Runs.
This year’s team was made up of almost all new students, as they had only two returning teammates.
Students learn to build and program a Lego SPIKE robot to run autonomously to complete as many missions as possible in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. They also have to solve a real world problem by coming up with a solution in a given topic.
This year’s theme was Cargo and the project is an app that allows passengers to see their pets in the cargo hold of the plane. The team worked with an app designer from Apple’s Design Academy as well as employees from United Airlines and Pet Safe program to build an actual app prototype. There are also several Core Values that must be showcased while doing all of the above.
The Titonics advanced out of the Austintown Regionals to the NE Ohio Districts in Lorain and have now advanced to the State Championship, which will be held virtually March 6.
At the Championship, the team will submit three robot runs as well as the team project, core values presentation and robot design and coding.
Team members are Jayden Colbert, who is the last remaining original Titonics member and has been in FLL for 6 years; Donovan Stringer, who is in his 3rd year with the team; and new members O’Brian Goliday, William Sanders, Amariyae Martin, Norah Foster, Ethan Wade, Daniel Stella Jr, Daniel Haggerty and Cameron Colbert.
What sets this team apart from the other robotic teams is that these students are involved in so many other activities. The majority are student athletes who compete in football, baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, cheerleading and gymnastics. The team includes have Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Prep Bowl members, National Junior Honor Society, Student Council members and also three members who have been selected to attend the National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
The Titonics are coached by Amanda Colbert who last year received the Coach of the Year award for the State of Ohio.
On Saturday, January 29th, the Warren G. Harding H.S. Band had seven students perform at the Ohio Music Education Association’s District 5 Jazz Festival.
The students were selected through a video audition process and then were placed in one of three county honors bands representing Trumbull, Mahoning and Ashtabula counties.
All three bands had an evening rehearsal last week, a day of rehearsals this past Friday, and performed a concert Saturday at the DeYor Performing Arts Center.
WGH Raider Band members in the Trumbull County Honors Band were:
Ean Dodge, grade 12, alto saxophone; Alfonso Guzman, grade 12, baritone saxophone; Xander Blose, grade 12, Ryan Gump, grade 12, and Vidal Brown, grade 11, trumpets; Trenten Miranda, grade 12, and Ethan O’Malley, grade 11, trombones.
The Warren G. Harding boys bowling team returned champions on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, claiming the All-American Conference tournament.
Harding defeated Austintown Fitch at Amron Lanes.
The Raiders, coached by Tom Burd, defeated conference foes Austintown Fitch, Boardman, Canfield and Howland.
Members of the team shown in the above picture are, from left to right, Blaise Schuller, Justin Tucker, Nick Homa, Braylen Schuller and Micah Beall.
Congratulations to the WGH Harding boys bowling team for winning the All-American Conference bowling tournament on Sunday at Amron Lanes. The Raiders defeated conference foes Austintown Fitch, Boardman, Canfield and Howland. Members of the team (from left to right) are Blaise Schuller, Justin Tucker, Nick Homa, Braylen Schuller and Micah Beall. The Raiders are coached by Tom Burd.
The Ohio Department of Education has given final approval of Warren
City Schools’ American Rescue Plan ESSER Round 3 grant application, which includes a budget of $12.5 million for the new wellness center being planned at the high school campus.
The funding approval was announced at the Tuesday, Jan. 25, Warren City Schools
Board of Education meeting.
The ARP ESSER grant provides $12.5 million of the estimated $15 million project.
Remaining project costs have already been put aside in capital improvements, and the project calls for no additional costs to taxpayers, for example, in the form of additional levies.
“We needed to be fiscally responsible and create a plan for using these grant funds that would be sustainable once the funding source was no longer available. I am thrilled that our plan has come to fruition and we will be providing equitable opportunities for our students,” commented Warren City Schools Treasurer Karen Sciortino.
“Built specifically for our students, and featuring student centered programming, the
Health and Wellness Center project will complete our campus vision and provide space and resources necessary to enhance the growth and development of our children. The addition of the ARP ESSER grant funding will play an important role as we move forward with our planning, construction and programming phases. It is certainly an exciting time for our Warren City Schools families as we begin to move forward with this project,” said School Board and Athletic Council Member Patti Limperos.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for the students and families in the Warren City School
District as the center will increase the district’s capacity to develop our students’ level of personal wellness and social emotional awareness as the needs of the whole child are advanced. Part of our vision for this project is to realize more equitable student academic and wellness outcomes by addressing barriers such as anxiety and other mental health concerns brought to light through the COVID 19 pandemic, said Dante Capers, Associate Superintendent of Student Services, Student Wellness & Success.
“The district is looking to break ground on the new facility later this spring or early summer with the project completion date set for August 2023 and will be utilized to address both academic, social emotional and physical needs of our students,” said Superintendent Steve Chiaro.
The Warren City School District, in partnership with Chik-fil-A, is recognizing 32 students across all five of our schools for their outstanding achievements and how they each have demonstrated the character traits outlined in the Warren Acronym:
Along with being highlighted in our bi-annual STUDENTS OF THE MONTH / OUTSTANDING STUDENTS publication, each outstanding student is presented with a certificate of achievement, and a yard sign is placed at the student’s residence.
Warren City School District is proud to present our Outstanding Students for Fall Semester 2021. To read about each of our Fall Semester 2021 Outstanding Students, click this link: WCSD Outstanding Students Fall 2021.
How can you design and build a structure that can withstand a natural disaster?
Students in Warren City Schools’ After-school STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) explored various ideas and options during a recent activity.
It is among several challenges 5th- and 7th-grade students in the district’s four PK-8 Schools – Lincoln, McGuffey, Jefferson and Willard – have worked to resolve. WCS partnered with the National Inventors Hall of Fame to provide identified programming in the area of STEM.
The program provides opportunities for students to learn the business of innovation, from prototype to product launch; turn ideas into inventions; and discover how to bring those inventions to market, while honing key skills like collaboration, self-expression and entrepreneurship.
“They develop real-world skills while learning to work creatively and collaboratively,” explained Annamarie Buonavolonta, instructor. “Each challenge gets them thinking. They see the challenge or problem and then work together to solve it.”
Warren G. Harding students now have the opportunity to be CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ) certified through Warren City Schools Health Classes.
CPR training previously was part of the curriculum. However, this year two of the district’s PE/Health teachers have become certified trainers, making the way for students to become CPR certified after passing the certification test.
CPR certification is one more “real-world” learning opportunity provided to students by our WCS staff.
Three Harding seniors were recognized Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, at the Tribune Chronicle’s Twenty Under 20 Awards Dinner.
Casey Owsley, Anthony Payiavlas and Camryn Stewart, all 17-years-old, each lit up the platform as they accepted their awards.
Guidance Counselor Sue Mizik says that Casey “understands the value of service to others and has maintained that outlook through great personal loss.” Her family has been hit hard by COVID-19, and experienced the loss of her grandmother and cousin due to the virus. Even so, Casey has maintained a 4.2 GPA, and continues to participate in the WGH marching band and symphonic bands and several extracurricular activities.
Anthony says he likes “helping out the less fortunate, giving them hope.” He likes “being there for someone,” and feels it’s his job to help. Anthony has been captain of the boys golf and tennis teams since 2019. He is active with the Greek Orthodox Youth Association and has been a member of the National Honor Society since 8th grade. He maintains a 4.1 GPA. Harding counselor Erin Kampf-Melillo says of Anthony that he “has engaged himself in our school environment in a way that makes a difference.”
Camryn says it’s her “passion to help others who need it.” She has maintained a 3.9 GPA while taking difficult advanced placement classes and college-credit plus courses. She is active on her school’s volleyball and softball teams, and serves as manager of the girls basketball team. She has added participating with National honor Society’s Big Brother/Big Sister mentor program to her long list of commitments. WGH Englisher teacher Melissa Rentz describes Camryn as someone who “wants to see her peers succeed by helping them with their skills.”
This is the second consecutive year Warren’s Jefferson PK-8 School served as the location of Berk Enterprises clothing distribution site.
Warren-based berk donated dozens of coats, socks and other clothing items to the community. The items were distributed to various organizations, including the Warren Family Mission, on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021.
The groups arrived at Jefferson where members of the school’s staff, including Campus Leader/Principal Carrie Boyer; Mesa Morlan, special education coordinator; Heidi Cope-Barker, school improvement supervisor; and Dante Campbell, community liaison at Jefferson.
