Editor’s note: Students from area school districts are providing regular columns on happenings in their schools. The project is being coordinated by Sue Gerhard at Carbon Career & Technical Institute.

Carbon CTI

By Isabel Wentz

Student Council is collecting pull tabs to donate to Ronald McDonald House until April 21. The technical area with the most pull tabs by weight will win! Members of Student Council will deliver the tabs to the Ronald McDonald House.

The Interact Rotary Club is sponsoring an egg hunt for CCTI students on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.

Yearbook orders are now being accepted. The cost per book is $35. Order forms may be picked up in the main office.

Any student interested in selling Krispy Kremes for your class, see Mrs. Kohutka in Health Medical or at the bus entrance in the morning for a form. This is the last Krispy Kreme fundraiser for your class for the school year.

Members of the National Technical volunteered to work the American Cancer Society Telethon this past weekend at Penn’s Peak. The faculty, staff and students presented a check for $500 to the ACS.

Weatherly

By Michael Berger and Kelly Michaels

Starting this week, we would like to congratulate our baseball and softball teams on starting their season with a win.

We would also like two of our track athletes, Kelly Reiner and Corbin Wagner. Kelly set our girls Weatherly’s javelin, discus and shot put records.

In addition, Corbin beat our boys Weatherly long and triple jump records. We would also like to congratulate Jonathan Darraugh for receiving the Good Citizen Award.

In other news, Weatherly’s tutoring program is up and running again. Interested students should reach out to Mrs. Minnick.

Panther Valley

By River Knoblauch and Kyle Lin

The 8th grade ACE team competed strongly throughout the 2023 academic competition. The 6 PV students consisted of Kayla Alburger, Bradley Barlett, RossLynn Gasket, Zoe Johnstone, Madeline Weaver, Keegan Wolfgang and alternates Viola Taschler and Spencer Black. With three rounds in each match, the crew beat Lehighton with a final score of 48-27, Tamaqua with a score of 56-23, and 45-32 against Northwestern Lehigh.

Going undefeated, the team played in the finals (results TBA) on March 22.

About 20 juniors and sophomores completed the March 22 SAT hosted at Panther Valley.

The Drama Club performed a great show on March 17 and 18, “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

Harmony Scholars participated in the Penn’s Peak American Cancer Society Telethon on Sunday. Two of their acts will be performed on this televised event, which will also be performed later on in their final show on May 12 and May 13.

Wrestler Brenda Banks was selected for the Times News/Lehigh Valley Health Network Female Athlete of the Week for her state championship win on March 12.