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Florence High School Junior Wins Ethics Essay Contest On May 9th, Bonnie McCalley, Essay Coordinator for The Williams Institute, presented Cordero Salazar, a junior at Florence High School, with a $500 scholarship for his winning essay on this year’s topic, “The World Around me and My Personal Responsibility.” Salazar was one of 30 winners representing schools as far away as New York and Korea. Click on the article title to read the rest of the story! Lowes Steps Up to the Plate at Florence High School In 1975, Florence Unified School District passed a bond and among the projects funded was a new baseball field for Florence High School. Nearly 40 years later, the fields are still in use, but the dugouts had become dilapidated, with rotting wood and roofs that leaked. Now, thanks to a “Toolbox for Education” grant from Lowes and the efforts of the FHS Advanced Construction class, the baseball dugouts are once more new and leak-free. Click on the article title for the rest of the story! Four Poston Butte High School Students Earn Athletic Scholarships Poston Butte High School coaches, parents and staff celebrated athletic scholarships earned by four seniors in a commitment signing ceremony held in the main gym on Monday April 30th. The students are: Eric Augustine, Joel Lynde, Shane Gereg and Steve Henry.
As members of the first graduating class, these students have been breaking ground on new traditions for three years. “We’ve been leaders ever since we’ve been here,” stated Augustine. “There were no older students to help show us the way. We set the standard.”
Lynde added, “We’ve had a lot of coaches, though, and they pushed us to be the best we could be. They inspired us.” Click on the article title to read the rest of the story! Copper Basin Students Medal at Statewide Science Fair Copper Basin K-8 students competed this month at the 2012 Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (AzSEF) at the Phoenix Convention Center, bringing home an impressive 31 awards in 2nd, 3rd or 4th place. “Copper Basin’s participation is an endeavor sponsored by teachers Lori Grantham and Shannon Lisko,” stated Principal Joanne Pike. “They work very hard along with our kids to promote the sciences. I am very proud of our teachers as they take on this very large project with great enthusiasm and style. Our kids are exposed to tremendous innovative ideas through this program, which ties in perfectly with STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics]. We’re proud to be winners, but the true prize is the kids’ excitement about learning and achieving in science!” Click on the article title to read the rest of the story!
FUSD Participates in National Victim's Rights Week In observance of National Victim's Rights Week and in support of FUSD's Anti-Bully stance, volunteers from the Community Services Division of the Pinal County Attorney's Office were in all of our schools on Monday or Tuesday this week (April 23 or 24), handing out flyers about Anti-Bullying, Victim's Rights, online resources, and FREE PENCILS! (Free pencils were very popular ;-) Coordinator and volunteer, Ginger Butcher, stated, "All of the advocates that went into the schools had nothing but great things to say about the experience and their interactions with your wonderful students." For more information about anti-bullying, Click Here. FHS Junior Nick Brown Commits to Division 1 Football at ASU It didn’t take Florence High’s Nick Brown long to make headlines as a college football prospect. And he hasn’t played a down yet. On April 12, Brown made a verbal commitment to play football at Arizona State University, the first athlete to do so under the regime of new head coach Todd Graham.
“I was thinking about this decision for about a year,” Brown said. “I’ve always wanted to go to ASU. I don’t know how it happened, but it happened. I didn’t expect (ASU) to offer me a scholarship this soon. But they made the offer and I said, ‘I’m taking it.’ Click Here to read the rest of the article! Poston Butte HS Adds Up the Awards at CAC Math Competition On Thursday, April 12, 2012, ninety students from Poston Butte High School competed in the 35th annual Central Arizona College Math Competition. Students swept the top spots in Algebra I and placed well in Calculus, resulting in a total score that landed the team in 3rd place overall for 2012.
The Poston Butte team also had a strong showing in the 2011 competition, placing first and second in Algebra 1 and taking 3rd place overall. “I am just super proud of our kids,” stated Dr. Bob Pappalardo, principal. “We did very well last year and even better this year. I’d say the team performance is a positive reflection on the changes we have implemented in our math program as well as some hard work and perseverance on the part of some really great kids.” For a list of winners, please click on the article title! Poston Butte Future Problem Solving Club Takes First Place Poston Butte students are already working on solving the problems of the world and proving themselves worthy. On Saturday, April 14, the Poston Butte High School Future Problem Solving Club competed in the State Bowl at ASU West and took home three first place trophies. The Team Competition topic this year was Trade Barriers. Students were challenged to consider the many intertwined economic issues of trade regulation, such as subsidies, import quotas and tariffs, and respond to the question, “Should policymakers strive for Free Trade or Fair Trade in the future - or some balance of the two?” The Poston Butte team took first place in Future Problem Solving and in Skit Performance. Team members include: Ileyah Hoeck-9th grade, Kiana Shirley- 10th grade, Shilo Sievers- 10th grade, Delia Brown-10th grade, and Phenix Smith-10th grade. Click the article title to read the rest of the story!
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