TEMS students to represent state in international event Orchard Hill

TEMS students to Orchard Hill collects for ‘Bundles of Joy’
represent state in
international event
Orchard Hill School teamed up with
the South Windsor Police Department
and South Windsor Youth and Family
Services to collect items for “Bundles of
Joy.”
The fifth-grade School Life Committee,
led by teacher Karyn Kruzick, organized
the event. The students accomplished
their goal to fill a police cruiser with
baby supplies such as diapers, wipes,
ointments, lotions, bath soap, bottles and
related supplies.
All of the donations went to local residents, as well as The Network Against
Domestic Abuse Women’s Shelter, KidSafe CT and First Way Life Center.
Robert Betteker reads to students at
Pleasant Valley School. Many of South
Windsor’s senior citizens visited the
elementary schools to read to children.
The TEMS Future Problem Solving
team will represent South Windsor and
Connecticut in Indiana in June. (L-r):
Greg Morneault, Lin Phan, Nate Carr and
Lindsey Cartier.
The TEMS Future Problem Solving
team of Nate Carr, Lindsey Cartier, Lin
Phan and Greg Morneault will represent the state of Connecticut in the Future Problem Solving competition in
Indiana in June. The team earned the
right to compete in the international
competition when they won second
place in the state event.
SWHS runs
French Club for OH
Forty-five fourth- and fifth-grade students from Orchard Hill participated in
an after-school French Club run by National Honor Society students from
SWHS. Students learned the basics of
the French language through games,
songs and role-playing.
SWHS students helped fourth- and fifthgrade students at Orchard Hill School
learn the basics of French.
Seniors read to
students
Orchard Hill students line up to help fill a police cruiser with donations for ‘Bundles
of Joy.’
PRS combines
sports and math
Philip R. Smith fifth-graders Jack McClusky and Marcus Rodriguez have been
helping math teacher Julie Ratajczak challenge the students with basketball-related
math questions. Students in multiple
grades have been solving a variety of math
questions, such as finding the area and perimeter of a basketball court and finding
the mean, or average, of a team’s points
during the Math Madness tournament.
Winners were picked from those students
who submitted the correct answer each
week. The first week’s winners were thirdgraders Emma Sanson, Amy DeGrandi,
Devon Kevetos and Rebecca Chernik. Winners for the second and third weeks of the
competition were fourth-graders Humza
Bhura, Charlie Keen, Cooper Castellone
and Nick Gattuso.
Wapping
School honors
superintendent
Bryan Giansanti’s fourth-grade class
at Wapping School honored School Superintendent Dr. Kate Carter during
Women’s History Month. Students had
been studying successful women, their
characteristics and their contributions
to society. Carter, who is South Windsor’s first woman superintendent, encouraged the children to do their best in
whatever they choose to do, and to empower and encourage others.
SWHS names CAS
scholar-athletes
Seniors Rachel Karlins and Brian
Finnegan have been selected as South
Windsor High School’s Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) Scholar-Athlete Award recipients, after meeting all
of the high academic, athletic and personal performance criteria.
School Superintendent Dr. Kate Carter
was a guest of the fourth-grade class
during Women’s History Month.
TEMS teams earn
medals at Science
Olympiad
Eighty-nine Timothy Edwards Middle
School students competed to make one of
the 15 slots available on the two teams
that would go to the Science Olympiad.
Having won five consecutive state championships, TEMS was considered the
team to beat. In an extremely close competition, TEMS was denied the first-place
finish by seven points. In a new recordsetting feat, the two TEMS teams tied for
second place and were awarded both second- and a third-place finish. In the eightyear history with the Science Olympiad
program, TEMS has earned five firstplace finishes, three second-place and
one third-place finish.
Earning first-place medals were Michael Fialkoff and Mallika Shekhar, Gloria Yi, Kearra Sarin (two gold medals),
Shelby Caron, Greg Morneault, Jake
Robinson, Nathan Carr, Rohit Makol, Lili
Lu and Devika Menon. Second-place
medals were earned by Michael Fialkoff,
Mallika Shekhar, Palak Warikoo, Manasha Satheesh, Jake Robinson, Kearra Sarin, Kiran Daggula, Jeff D’Onofrio,
Enuma Mokel and Kunal Khattar, Nathan Carr and Rohit Makol. Jessica Bajorek and Jas Pyneni each earned two
medals. Third-place medals went to Gloria Yi, Michael Fialkoff, Kiran Daggula,
Mallika Shekhar, Jeff D’Onofrio, Kiran
Daggula, Reeya Khurana, Forest Fan,
Rohit Makol, Jessica Bajorek, Jas Pyneni, Lin Phan and Matt Sullivan.