Hello College Bound Senior Families!
Happy New Year! I wanted to share with you a list of free PHEAA webinars for the upcoming months via the link below. If any of these topics interest you, please register at https://pheaa.org/virtual
Please contact Denise Liscum at dliscum@montasd.org with any questions or concerns.
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"Football Players Named to NTL All-Star Team”
"Bryson Earns 100th Win”
Congratulations to Coy Bryson for earning his 100th career victory over the holiday break. Bryson reached this milestone at the Junisra Duals where the Montgomery JR/SR High School Wrestling program also took first place as a team.
"Matness at the MACC Yields Girls’ Wrestling Success”
The Montgomery High School Girls’ Wrestling program hosted a 20-team Matness at the MACC event this past weekend. Our Lady Raider Wrestling team placed second overall with 3 individual champs - Jenna Houseknecht, Emily Murphy, and Zoe Furman. Murphy was also named as the Outstanding Wrestler.
"FFA Students Earn Highest State Achievement”
Congratulations to Madison Burleigh and Landyn Rine who received their Keystone degrees at the farm show in Harrisburg yesterday. This degree is the highest achievement in the state of Pennsylvania.
Montgomery NHS Chapter Receives National Service Award
The Montgomery Area High School NHS Chapter has won the National Service Award of Excellence for its exemplary record of leadership, service and efforts to improve the school and community.
Among its many service projects, as well as the society’s volunteer work for elementary and high school events, this chapter’s 2023 Clubs for a Cause project solidified this award. This project brought together the school and local community to collect blanket kits and make and donate 115 blankets to Project Linus for Christmas in December of 2023.
“Receiving an NHS Chapter Pillar Award reflects the extraordinary commitment of students who are making a real difference in their school and community,” said NASSP CEO Ronn Nozoe. “The Montgomery chapter showed what's possible when young people come together to lead, serve and inspire others.”
Congratulations to our current and past NHS members responsible for this honor. Special congratulations to NHS coordinator for the district, Mrs. Jessica Carpenter.
Thank you to all students, teachers, stafff, and community members who contributed to the 34th annual Venison Roast. The tradition continues…..🎄🦌
December Elementary MVP's
"Broadcasting Students Take on Real World Opportunity”
The HS Broadcasting program was given an amazing real-world application opportunity to showcase video and editing skills. Due to current renovations to the WVIA studio, the program was asked to film Camden Dalrymple’s upcoming Performing Artist of the Week dance segment in house. After seeing some of our past student work, WVIA offered our kids the opportunity to not only film for them but to also handle the edit of the segment that will be featured in the spring of 2025. Congratulations to drone videographer, Layne Gingery, and lead editor, Zoe Furman.
"Montgomery HS Art Program Wins PennDOT Award”
Recently, Penn DOT announced Montgomery Area High School as the winning school in this year’s Lycoming County Paint the Plow initiative. This statewide outreach endeavors to promote driving safety throughout the winter months as well as encouraging area Visual Arts programs to express creativity through this important message.
Congratulations to Art teacher, Mrs. Tina Sampsell, and to the following student painters: Carly Hall, Sahara Butcher, Katelyn Long, and Kendra Bryson. The original design was conceptualized by Jaiden Skiro. The winning plow will be on display at PennDOT’s Lycoming County Maintenance Office until next December.
Mrs. Sampsell and her students would like to thank Dr. Stoudt and the Tech teachers fro their patience and support throughout the project.
The Board of Directors of the Montgomery Area School District will hold a special meeting on January 7, 2025 beginning at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of ratification of legal action and personnel matters.
The Montgomery Area School District is accepting applications for an immediate, full-time seventh grade science position. Please send resume, standard PA teaching application, teaching certification, references and all required clearances to Mrs. Daphne Bowers, Superintendent, Montgomery Area School District, 120 Penn Street, Montgomery, PA 17752. EOE
"FFA Participates in Wreaths Across America”
Some of Montgomery’s FFA members participated in Wreaths Across America on Saturday, December 14th. Thanks to all who gave of their time.
Boys' Basketball Promo
https://youtu.be/YX6WRg9hI2Y
MAHS Announces First Historians of the Month Congratulations to the first MAHS students ever to be acknowledged as “historians of the month.” This will be a new and regular award given by our history department. The winners are Trace Furman, Hunter Young, and Connor Jarrett. All had comments on their win. Trace… “My favorite topic I have taken so far in social studies has been World History with Mr. Newcomer. I enjoyed learning about all the early civilizations and how those cultures have been developed into the modern world throughout history. My favorite unit would have to be learning about the Greek and Roman Empires because I enjoy learning about their governments and way of life. People who would like to learn about connections throughout history and how many major battles compare would enjoy World History very much.” Hunter… “The subject of History is, and always will be, one of my favorite subjects. No matter what time period, I will always be eager to learn about it. It all started when Covid-19 hit the world and brought us into isolation as a society. I was scrolling through my YouTube recommended feed one day when I found a video that caught my eye. It was a video about World War I by The Infographics Show. I was fascinated when my own two eyes had seen this. I just had to learn more about this! I took off to the search bar to look up more, and I found it. Ever since that day, History has been very important to me, something I hold near and dear to my heart. Because I know so much about it, I can see parts of history repeating in our modern day. Overall, History can help us see the wrongs of the past and stray away from them.” Connor… “History is very important to me for many different reasons, but the main reason is that I want to learn from past historical figures to mirror some of their ways so that, in the future, I can make a positive impact. Another reason history is important is because I want to learn from past mistakes that people in history have made so I don’t make and can help other people not make those mistakes. The last reason is that history will always repeat itself, so it will help me understand why things happen and help solve the problem if needed.”
Quiz Bowl Team Claims 4th Place Finish
Congratulations to the Quiz Bowl team who traveled to Millersville University on Saturday and placed 4th out of 18 teams in their division with a record of 5-4. They competed against varsity teams and represented Montgomery well!
Performing Arts Students Travel to NYC
Performing Arts students had the opportunity to travel to NYC this past Friday to see the Broadway production of “The Outsiders.” The day also consisted of time in the Chelsea Market/Meat Packing District, seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a behind the scenes tour of Radio City Music Hall, meeting a Rockette, and touring Times Square.
DECA Successful at District Competition
Students from our DECA organization travelled to State College this past Friday for the District 4 level of competition..
The event took place at South Hills School of Business.
Congratulations to Mason Bryson and Coy Bryson on their third place finish in Financial Services Team Decision Making! This placement qualifies them for the state conference which will take place in February.
Congratulations also to Ben Whitmoyer and Cali Barnes who placed 4th overall in their events as well.
The Montgomery Area School District will operate on a 2-hour delay tomorrow morning, Monday, 12/16/24.
During their STEM Unit in Library Class, the 6th graders created a unique board game that featured beginner math skills. They had to use coding and engineering (including 3D printing) to create these games. Yesterday, the 6th graders invited the Kindergarten and 1st grade classes to play their board games! Everyone had lots of fun... great job 6th grade!
