The North Clarion Middle School Team of Austin Geer, Max Sporer and Dylan Morrison won the Design Award at the STEM Design Challenge competition on Thursday, March 27th at the Clarion YMCA. They were tasked with designing and building a solution to an infrastructure problem out of K'Nex pieces. The students designed a solar powered trolley system that would transport vehicles over valleys.

At the March 3rd Western State Competition held at PennWest Clarion University, North Clarion’s team composed of Julian Bellotti, Logan Bish, Luke Dinger, Gabriel Fair, Tyler Swaim, and Kevin Young were crowned senior high tournament champions and also earned the Amaze Award.

The team of Morgan Bauer, Jacob Cyphert, Ethan Hastings, and Sam Smail won the middle school Excellence Award. Both of those teams have qualified for the world championship in Dallas, Texas in May.

The Mustash-E Bros. includes Carter Dechant, Tobin Bell, Owen Vincent, Emmet Baumcratz, Waylon Shaffer and Memphis Bowser. The team was crowned the Elementary Western Pennsylvania Teamwork Challenge Champion as well as earned the Build Award at the States competition.

Mr. Ron Fenske was presented with the VEX teacher of the year award.

Congrationals to our Academic Decathlon team for finishing 3rd in the small school division!

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Back: Jack Maxwell

Front: Allison Ochs, Emily Baumcratz, Gwen Griebel, Jack Pappas, McKinzie Lencer ,  Ann Weikert, Addison Siegel.

Sophia Rhoads placed 5th in the 500 Freestyle at the District IV Championships

Brookville’s Kevin Young was the lone double champion with Young winning the 200 Freestyle (1:50.97) and the 500 Freestyle (5:02.38).

Dear Parents,

We are excited to share a new addition to our elementary school! Thanks to the generous support of the North Clarion Foundation and the PTO, we now have a book vending machine at the elementary school. Students can earn tokens for the vending machine by saving their punch cards or by demonstrating outstanding acts of citizenship, friendship, and kindness.

Once a student earns a token, they can use it to “purchase” a book from the vending machine. The book they select will be theirs to keep.

We are thrilled to offer this unique opportunity to encourage reading and positive behavior!

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Front row: Allison Ochs, Ann Weikert, Ariona Brady, Emily Baumcratz. Back row: McKinzie Lencer, Lizzy Seitz, Jack Maxwell, Jackson Pappas, Addison Seigel, Gwen Greibel