Warren City Schools welcomed more than 30 representatives of Trumbull County agencies, organizations and educational facilities to the March 16, 2023, Homelessness Awareness Event.
Special Guest Patricia Julianelle, Senior Director of School House Connection, Program Advancement and Legal Affairs, discussed homelessness among the nation’s homeless youth. She said the numbers are staggering and that many people are not aware of the how many school-age children are homeless.
Jill Merolla, WCS Supervisor of Community Outreach and Grant Development / Homeless Liaison and RaiTwann “Rai” Gaston, WCS family housing navigator, offered a closer look at homelessness among WCS’ students and their families and the efforts taking place within the school district to help them.
Additional insight was provided by a School House Connection youth speaker who experienced homelessness.
Warren’s Team E.L.I.T.E. 48 competed this weekend at the Midwest Regional in Chicago, IL. The event had 46 teams from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, and as far away as Ankara, Turkey, to name a few.
Team E.L.I.T.E. (Encouraging Learning In Technology and Engineering) went 5W-6L in qualification rounds seeding 24th.
During alliance selection, the Girard RoboCats, which went 7W-4L seeding 13th, became the 8th alliance captain and selected Team E.L.I.T.E. and team 2013, the Cybergnomes, from Ontario, Canada. During the double elimination rounds, the RoboCats alliance went 3W-2L and finished the event ranked 3rd.
Both the RoboCats and Team E.L.I.T.E. will now return home to iterate on their creations and meet again at the Buckeye Regional, March 30-April 1, and the Pittsburgh Regional, April 6-8. If either qualifies during those events, they will advance to the FIRST World Championship in Houston, TX, April 19-22.
The teams compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition which challenges High School students from around the world to build a new robot each year to compete in a new challenge. Teams are given roughly 6 weeks to design, protype, build, program, and test their robots before competing at events.
Pxl_20230311_153309369Students Levi Flowers, Michael Whiddon, Matthew Marksberry, Sarah Herko, Zosia Dupont, and Courtney Wilcox speak with judges about their robot and team.
Pxl_20230311_203158025Students Michael Whiddon, Zosia Dupont, and Sarah Herko prepare their robot for another match alongside mentors Frank Bosak, Frank Shively, and Alex Richards.
Pxl_20230311_175232295Student, Mallory Gannon, catches a yellow game piece during robot testing
Pxl_20230311_214059934Mentor, Trevor Donley, works with Student, Michael Whiddon, to test a recent programming change.
Pxl_20230311_175226783Mentor, Matthew Jones, guides Student, Raina Bacon, through a checklist before a match.
Warren G. Harding student Morgan McLennan has been awarded a $2,500 scholarship through the EverFi Financial Literacy platform the seniors completed this year.
The national scholarship is funded through Fifth Third Bank and the EverFi Financial Literacy Curriculum.
More than 1,000 entries from across the country for the scholarship were received.
In observance of Black History Month, Mrs. Richardson’s 6th-grade science students – while exploring the contributions of some famous African Americans – studied Henrietta Lacks and her contributions to the medical field.
Students then presented the material to others, which gave them the opportunity to hone their skills of public speaking.
The informative and interactive program was presented Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at Warren’s Lincoln PK-8 School.
Lacks’ cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line – one of the most important cell lines in medical research – obtained during Lacks’ cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins by researcher Dr. George Gey in 1951.
The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot explores Lacks’ contribution to medical research and the medical revolution that was launched as a result.
National award-winning teacher, author, speaker and social-emotional learning (SEL) leader Keeth Matheny spent time in Warren on Friday, March 3, 2023, meeting with school staff.
Matheny worked with Warren City Schools counselors, psychologists, case managers and behavior support personnel on supporting the wellness needs of students. Attendees worked in building teams to identify supports, align interventions and assess needs to best serve students throughout Warren City Schools.
Matheny also worked with district bus drivers on youth wellness and de-escalation techniques.
Warren G. Harding students spent some time at the Case Western Reserve University Cadaver Lab on Thursday, March 2, 2023.
Here are some highlights from the trip and more information about the program:
Victoria Midgett wrote a proposal for the Schermer DiYorio grant to take the CCP Anatomy and Physiology classes to the Case Western Reserve University Cadaver Lab and it was granted.
The Cadaver Lab is the classroom for the Gross Anatomy class in the graduate program at CWRU.
The course at CWRU is for both medical school students and students pursuing Master’s degrees in Applied Anatomy.
The WGH students were the first high school students that had the opportunity to visit the Cadaver Lab.
The lab had 8 dissected human bodies. These individuals chose to donate their bodies to science upon their death. The bodies came from a 50-100 mile radius of the university.
The bodies are embalmed prior to coming to the Cadaver Lab.
WGH students took advantage of the hands-on experience. Highlights included holding a human heart, liver, spleen, and lungs as well as feeling the spinal cord and the cauda equine, the collection of nerves at the end of the spinal cord that resembles a horse’s tail.
The graduate students asked questions of the WGH students that helped them connect what they are learning in the Anatomy and Physiology class to the human bodies that were in the Cadaver Lab.
One of the WGH students said “I am pretty sure this just changed my career path.”
The graduate students demonstrated a passion for learning that was recognizable by the WGH students. The graduate students shared how they study for this course for 8-10 hours a day.
During the time in the lab, students were seen standing on stools so that they can manipulate and move the organs of the body in order to see how the organs are all connected. The graduate students were excellent in guiding the WGH students around the body organs and systems.
The cadavers in the lab were treated with great respect. Their faces/heads were covered with a cloth and there was a gentleness to how the organs were held and moved.
Students at Warren G. Harding High School competed against each other Thursday, Feb. 13, in a mock version of the Moody Math Challenge.
For a moth prior to the competition, teachers Kristy Thornton and Courtney Susko worked with the students in training simulations to solve real-world problems through the lens of mathematics.
The program culminated with the day-long challenge in the high school library where students, working in teams, were given a problem, worked on the solution, then presented the solutions to a panel of judges. The students worked on a project involving automobile insurance costs.
Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Susko organized the event for freshmen and sophomores who tested gifted in math, reading/writing, or creative thinking.
Warren G. Harding High School Senior Zyaire Bush has successfully completed the initial steps along his pursuit of a career in information technology.
Warren City Schools has partnered with the Youngstown State University Workforce Development Program to offer an opportunity for students to earn industry-recognized credentials for engineering, informational technology and advanced manufacturing.
The program aligns with the YSU Excellence Training Center and provides an opportunity for students to complete online coursework at school and to also receive hands-on experience and training with advanced manufacturing equipment currently used in industry.
Zyaire is enrolled in the Information Technology Program and completed the COMP TIA IT Fundamentals coursework and successfully passed his certification exam. He has earned points towards the completion of the Industry Recognized Credential for COMP TIA, which focuses on common operating systems, network connectivity, security and common software applications.
At the completion of the program, students have the opportunity to meet with representatives from local businesses and to interview for a job or paid internship. There has been unprecedented growth and demand for more employees in our local area for the skilled trades, advanced manufacturing, engineering, and informational technology.
Macey Sacco, a 4th-grade student at Warren’s Jefferson PK-8 School, presented $373.62 to local Salvation Army leaders.
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, Ramona Ramsey, Youth Coordinator, and Kiley Williams, Corp Officer for the Salvation Army, were on hand at Jefferson to collect the donation.
The donation was an extension of a story Macey’s class read about how one person can make a difference. She identified the organization, created a way to collect money, created fliers, and collected money through the quarter drop.
She also made public service announcements during the school’s morning announcements.
Leaders from Warren City Schools – Superintendent/CEO Steve Chiaro, Chief Academic Officer Wendy Hartzell and Director of Business Operations John Lacy – discussed career opportunities with several dozen student teacher candidates from Youngstown State University during a Friday, Jan. 6, job fair hosted by the Trumbull County Educational Service Center.
The career fair provided the future educators with the opportunity to discuss their career goals and showcase their skills and experiences one-on-one with school administrators and to learn more about Warren City Schools.
More than 70 student teacher candidates were in attendance.
