Pequea Valley townlively.com
JUNE 7, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LIX • NO 24
PVHS garners STEM School of the Year award Tiny home project is highlight of application BY ANN MEAD ASH
equea Valley High School (PVHS) principal John Trovato is quick to point out where he thinks credit is due for the STEM School of the Year for 2022-23 award that was bestowed on the school in a May 18 ceremony. “Rob Dorsheimer is the lead facilitator of the team, and Rob King and Josiah Moon oversee our C.O.R.E. (Career Occupation Relevancy Education) Academy,” said Trovato. “They are outstanding, and they are the ones who do all the work.” C.O.R.E. teaches skill development while also offering integrated academic instruction. The STEM School of the Year award for the Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 is given by the IU and the Lancaster County STEM Alliance (LCSA). “The STEM awards are highly competitive,” said Lauren Beal, associate program director for educational partnerships and executive director of the Lancaster County STEM Alliance for the Lancaster-Lebanon
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IU13. “We have a thorough rubric we use, and (the application) is evaluated blindly by reviewers from IU13 and LCSA,” she explained. According to Trovato, the application was submitted in March. “The application process involved having to detail steps the program has taken in recent years to integrate STEM into the curriculum,” he explained, noting that a number of seventh- and eighth-graders are taking STEM classes at PVHS. “This is the fourth year of C.O.R.E., and we are very happy it has received recognition,” Trovato said, noting that the first cohort of C.O.R.E. freshmen are now seniors. Another focus of the application was the tiny home that Moon’s ninth-grade class has been working on. The class recently completed handmade hard maple cabinets for the kitchen. “We got a trailer, and we built it from the trailer up,” said Dorsheimer, who noted that the plan is to sell the home when it is completed. See PVHS pg 3
Pequea Valley High School teachers who oversee the C.O.R.E. Academy students who are building a tiny house include (from left) Rob Dorsheimer, Josiah Moon, and Rob King.
RRR to host Summer Field Day “This is the open house of our hobby,” said Alex Van Patten, public information officer with Red Rose Repeater Association (RRR), a local organization that will participate in the national Amateur Radio Field Day. “It’s our chance to show people who have no or limited exposure to this hobby what it’s all about,” stated Van Patten. This year’s event, known to RRR members as “Summer Field Day,” will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25, at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 750 E. King St., Lancaster. This
GSV schedules Backyard Bash Adams, Barbara Carter, Evelyn Hershey, Edna Jean Homsher, Katie Several years ago, Brandon Adams, Kauffman, Vanessa Moore, Jeannine a graphic designer with Garden Spot Perry, and Todd Perry. To defray costs of the trip, the Village (GSV), felt a calling to partner with Missions of Hope International team has scheduled a fundraiser (MOHI), an organization that tackles called Family Backyard Bash and poverty with the goal of transforming Movie Night in the pavilion and on lives through the hope of Christ. The the adjoining lawn at GSV, first trip based on that partnership 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, occurred in February of 2022, when a on Friday, June 9. Festivities, which Travel with Purpose team made up of will include a variety of activities, GSV staff members and residents vis- food, and a movie, will begin at ited people in need in the urban 6:30 p.m. Area residents are invited slums of the Mathare Valley, Nairobi, to bring their lawn chairs and blanKenya. A new team is scheduled to kets. In the case of inclement weathvisit and serve in the same region in er, the event will be held in the GSV September. This team will include Chapel and the Village Square.
See RRR pg 4
See GSV pg 2
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Red Rose Repeater president Ralph Hess (left photo) and public information officer Alex Van Patten (right photo) will both be working to make contact with other amateur radio clubs on Summer Field Day.
Family fun to raise funds
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