Poems from two Fort Couch Middle School students, Anelise Castrodale and Erin Wells, were recently selected for publication in the Creative Communication poetry contest.
A team of Fort Couch Middle School students placed second and another team from the Upper St. Clair school earned special recognition in the Regional First Lego League Robotics Grand
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A team of Fort Couch Middle School students placed first in the sixth-through-eighth-grade division at the regional STEM Design Challenge March 26.
Eighth-graders Carlee Santel, Tyler McClintock-Comeaux, Eitan Schwartz and Yuhong Shi now qualify to compete in the state-level competition
Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, the STEM Design Challenge tasks teams of students in fourth through eighth grades with designing and building a prototype using recyclable materials or KâNex pieces. Each team must also create and submit a design notebook and a blueprint.
âThe STEM Design Challenge encourages students to collaborate as they apply the engineering design process to accomplish a given goal,â Jason OâRoark, gifted education teacher, said. âThis year the students enabled homes to only heat rooms that contained people, thus saving energy and helping the environment.â