🏆 THEY’RE HEADING TO NATIONALS // The Cumberland Valley Science Olympiad team is leaving today for Michigan State University, where they will compete in the NATIONAL tournament this weekend. Students representing CV include 🦅 Eagles from CV High School and CV9. Good luck, and know that we’re #CVproud!
This will be CV's second Nationals appearance in three years, 2022 being held virtually. PA sends the top 2 teams from the state tournament. CV will represent PA high schools along with Harriton HS from the Lower Merion School District.
🎵🎤 GREASE IS THE WORD // As part of this year’s spring concert, our Hampden Elementary School staff put on their best poodle skirts and leather jackets to perform “We Go Together” for students and families. Think they went to the hop 🕺 after the concert? 😀 #CVproud
👏 Let’s congratulate seniors Mckenna Gerhart and Jonathon Chang, who were recently named Scholar Athlete Awards at the West Shore Hall of Fame Ceremony. Mckenna played soccer and was a member of our track team while Jonathon was swimmer and played water polo.
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🍕 Showcasing many of the skills learned throughout the year, some of our 🦅 Eagles at Eagle View Middle School organized and hosted a Food Fest for staff. Please help us give them a shoutout for a (tasty) job well done! #CVproud
👏 Please help us congratulate Lauren Whiteko, Instructional Coach at Middlesex Elementary School and our K-8 Intervention Department Chair, who was recently named a finalist for Amplify’s 2024 Science of Reading Star Award. According to Amplify, this program is designed to honor “the change-making champions leading literacy transformation in their classrooms, schools, and districts." Lauren was nominated by multiple colleagues and went through an extensive interview and vetting process before being named a finalist.
#Congratulations #CVproud
MEET OUR AWARD WINNERS // 👏 Please help us give a special shoutout to Eagle View Middle School Health and PE Teacher Cecelia Clippinger, who recently earned SHAPE PA's Local Teacher of the Year award, and to Winding Creek Elementary School's Bernadette Daries, who was named an Emerging Leader by SHAPE PA. #Congratulations #CVproud
🎣 CORE MEMORIES MADE // Middlesex Elementary School 5th-graders spent the day outdoors to learn, hands-on, more about what's around them. The learning experience was part of the school's annual Environmental Education Days, which includes a special 🐟 catch-and-release fishing event. Special thanks to all of our amazing staff and volunteers who work so hard to make this wonderful day both possible and memorable for our students.
📸 courtesy Mrs. Stephanie Eldridge, Middlesex Elementary principal.
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MEET OUR NATIONAL MERIT WINNERS // 👏 Please help us congratulate seniors Chinmay Govind and Ethan Works, who have been selected as winners of a National Merit Scholarship. They are two of only 2,500 seniors selected from across the country for this prestigious honor. #CVproud
Special thanks to all of the EMS crews across the region who work daily to keep our school community healthy + safe. We appreciate you every day, but want to give you a special shoutout during EMS Appreciation Week! 📸 courtesy our friends at Silver Spring EMS. #CVproud #ThankYOU
NEWSMAKER // Help us congratulate CV High School’s Vraj Patel, who was named as one of PennLive’s Best & Brightest 2025. 🩺 Vraj plans to major in biomedical engineering and biosciences at Rice University after graduation.
📸 courtesy Sean Simmer, PennLive photographer.
Read more about Vraj and all of the Best & Brightest winners: https://www.pennlive.com/life/2024/05/meet-the-best-brightest-class-of-2024.html?outputType=amp #CVproud
🚶 Team Winding Creek recently participated in Logan’s Walk/Run for Autism on City Island. The walk was sponsored by the Autism Society of the Greater Harrisburg Area to raise awareness and acceptance for those living with autism in our community. Way to go, Wolfpack!
📸 courtesy Ms. Keri Dougherty, K-1 Autism Support Teacher, Winding Creek.
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🎨 BEAUTIFY THE BARRIERS // Our 5th grade Gators at Green Ridge Elementary School have been working collaboratively on painting a mural to be installed at the Simpson Library as part of their Beautify the Barriers project. This year's theme for the library's Summer Learning Program is "Adventure Begins at Your Library." As such, the mural design depicts two readers in a blanket fort getting lost in the story as it starts to come to life around them. Please show our artistic Gators some ❤️ for their amazing talent!
Photos courtesy Ms. Katlyn Baer, art teacher at Green Ridge (who has been participating in this project for four years!).
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🏆 Congratulations to our John Travers Award finalists, Alicia So and Alex Sauve! 📸 courtesy Colette Koontz. #CVproud
🎓 DECLARATION DAY // Our Class of 2024 Eagles proudly shared their intentions following graduation during this year’s Declaration Day celebration. Congratulations and best of luck to our soon-to-be grads, who we are confident are ready to successfully enroll, enlist, or employ. 📸 courtesy Dr. Amy Miller, CVHS Assistant Principal. #CVproud
You can find growth opportunities around every corner at Cumberland Valley High School. 🧗♂️ Check out this climbing wall, recently tackled by Eagles in Mr. Josh Mueller's Adventure Education class.
Mr. Mueller explained, "Students were able to use a climbing wall as a visual to set a goal and identify their comfort zone. They then challenged themselves to climb just a bit outside of that comfort zone to develop both a sense of accomplishment and confidence for future experiences. "
📸 courtesy Mr. Mueller, Health and PE teacher.
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🏆 MEET THE CHAMPS // Please help us congratulate Cumberland Valley High School's Future Business Leaders of America, whose chapter members found success at the 2024 State Leadership Conference. Together, our Eagles earned 69 awards, which recognize our chapter’s outstanding performance in competitive events, community service, and leadership. For their hard work and dedication, 21 students have earned a spot on the national stage, where they will represent our chapter and state.
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🏅 Our Unified Bocce program expanded to Eagle View and Mountain View middle schools this spring, where both schools formed teams. As a culminating event, our student-athletes came together to battle it out on the court in some friendly competition earlier this week. Teams are under the direction of coaches Jon Sauve, Taryn Heckard, and Brianna Doherty, in addition to several staff who support the program. 👏 Please help us celebrate our student-athletes and the wonderful Bocce program.
📸 courtesy Amanda Gervais.
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🦸♂️ HE’S OUR HEIMLICH HERO // Meet Liam, a third grader at Shaull Elementary School who recently sprung into action when he saw his friend choking on a piece of food from his lunch. Liam knew immediately what to do and without hesitation performed the Heimlich, ultimately dislodging the food and saving his friend. 🏅 For his heroic efforts, Dr. Blanchard presented Liam with an “Eagles Are Responsible” challenge coin. These coins are presented to special members out of school community who display our #PortraitOfAnEagle competencies in standout ways. Liam definitely meets that criteria (and he's only the second student to receive a coin!). 👏 Please help us celebrate Liam in the comments. And then head on over to ABC 27 to watch Liam, who shares the story in his own words. 🔗 https://www.abc27.com/local-news/carlisle-west-shore/third-grade-heimlich-hero-saves-cheese-choking-friend-at-pennsylvania-elementary-school/ #CVproud #EaglesAreResponsible
MISSION: RESCUE FRED // Students in Mrs. Melissa Hester's third-grade class at Middlesex Elementary School were challenged with saving their gummy worm friend, Fred, from drowning. They used their problem-solving and communication skills in this daring and brave hands-on STEM activity to figure out how to put a life preserver on Fred by only using paper clips. Great news: Fred is safe!
Photos courtesy Ms. Abigail Rudy, a student teacher who is spending the semester with our Mountain Lion friends.
🥨 SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS (AND HONORING ONE OF OUR OWN) // On the last day of spring break, members of our ⚾ Eagles baseball team got together to send Coach Kilpatrick and members of his troop a (salty, sweet, and oh-so-crunchy) taste of home.
With generous support from the Rice family and Utz, in addition to donations from our baseball, softball, and football families (Coach Kil is also an assistant football coach), players gathered yesterday to package the snacks that will be sent to First Lieutenant Collin Kilpatrick and his Pennsylvania National Guard Alpha Troop 2-104 Cavalry out of Hazelton, Pa, who are currently stationed overseas. It'll be a much-welcomed delivery as Coach Kil says some of the foods he and his troops miss most are Pennsylvania's snacks.
👏 Please help us give a shoutout to Coach Kil and his troop for their service to our country and to our teams for this beautiful community service project! Also, be sure to tune into ABC 27 News at 5:30 and 6 p.m. today (April 2, 2024) as they spotlight our Eagles and their efforts to support Coach Kil and troops.
Special thanks also to Mumma's Appliances for loaning the team the box truck in support of their cause.
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