Cornell's 8th grade students recently visited the Inventionland, located in RIDC park. During the tour, students witnessed several unique work areas like a pirate ship, giant robot, tree house, and many more . Inventionland creates these areas in the hopes of inspiring the many inventors that work there. Students were also allowed to explore the state-of-the-art studios and watch a video on how an idea becomes a product. After completing a pencil-holder maker project, students ate lunch in the castle.

Alex Shemerdiak, was selected as the P.M Parkway West CTC student of the month. Alex is a first-year Parkway student enrolled in the Health Assistant Program.

Recently, the Key Club traveled to Washington DC to volunteer for Wreaths Across America. Students participated in wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Students fundraised throughout the year in order to participate in this event. A special thank you to Mrs. Miriam Klein and Mrs. Megan Fuga for sponsoring the trip.

Congratulations to Mr. Tavis Bogue’s Advanced Science class for winning “Most Efficient Reset” at the Carnegie Science Center’s Chain Reaction Contraption Contest.

For the second year in a row, Cornell had a great showing at the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (TRETC). Mrs. Rachel McVeagh had a packed session, for the third year in a row, “Classroom Innovation: New and Better.” Mrs. Amy Palo and Mrs. Miriam Klein teamed up to share resources from all of the projects they work on, “Digital Humanities.” Mrs. Susan Dunning and Mrs. Miriam Klein brought their Games for Change Champion girls to share their work in a poster session. Finally, Mr. Tavis Bogue’s Advanced Science students shared their chain reaction contraption as part of the student showcase. Mr. Bogue’s students were also interviewed by SLB Radio’s Youth Express.

Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Fuga’s 7th grade science and social studies classes are learning about biomes in a new way this year. Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center are working with Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Fuga and their students to develop an immersive virtual reality experience for students to learn about deciduous forests...

Cornell 3rd Grade Teacher, Mrs. Casey Thomas, was just selected as the Steelers Leader in the Classroom! Congratulations Mrs. Thomas!!!

Mr. Leo Grandovic of Northwest Savings Bank recently presented Jacob Owen, Noah Litzinger, James Dolan, Jasmine Fadel, Cassidy Schroder, Sydney Grannis, Brittany Postma with certificates of achievement. Each of the students achieved 100% on the Ever Fi Financial Literacy Program.

Congratulations to Mrs. Katie O’Neil’s 5th grade class for their completion of Code.org Course 3. Volunteers from the FedEx IT department led by Mr. Jeffery McBain in collaboration with Mrs. Kristen Bardelli instructed students weekly in computer science lessons. Pictured above is Alex Wohlgemuth receiving his certificate of completion.