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Courtesy Fox Chapel Area High School

The Fox Chapel Area High School Madrigal Singers will perform a free concert with the Susquehanna University Choir and Chamber Singers on March 11. The concert will be at 7 p.m. at Faith United Methodist Church and is part of the Susquehanna University Choirs annual spring break tour. Admission is free and the concert is open to all. The church is at 261 West Chapel Ridge Road.

Magazine receives national award

Fox Chapel Area High Schools 2018-2019 literary arts magazine Tapestry received a national award. It was named a first-place winner in the magazine portion of the 2019 American Scholastic Press Associations Annual Contest/Review for Scholastic Yearbooks, Magazines and Newspapers.

The 2018-2019 student editors of Tapestry were 2019 graduates Noah Fritsch, Arnav Gupta, Emma Kazmierczak, Alyssa Melani, Demi Rymer, Seo Yeon Christina Wang and Chloe Yofan (editor-in-chief); current 2019-2020 seniors Claire Cummings, Gwendolyn Davison, Emma Lusk, Navjot Pabla and Olivia Tang; and current 2019-2020 juniors Molly Dean, Nora McDougall and Xavier Perry. The advisor is Fox Chapel Area High School English teacher Jessica Green.

Place in forensic tournament

Eight Fox Chapel Area High School students placed at the annual Michael Quinn Memorial Forensic Tournament.

The Public Forum Debate team of senior Boomba Nishikawa and sophomore Ian Mackey-Piccolo won first place. Another first-place award went to sophomore Alaina Kaslewicz in commentary. In policy debate, the team of senior Rajeev Godse and junior Jackson Romero won second place. The Public Forum Debate team of seniors J. Oliver Choo and Sina Shaikh was awarded third place. In the Lincoln Douglas Debate, sophomore Siddharth Yende won fifth place.

The tournament was Feb. 15 at West Allegheny High School with more than 280 students participating.

Induction planned

Five Fox Chapel Area High School and A.W. Beattie Career Center juniors will be inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) this year.

The Fox Chapel Area students are Isaiah Charapp and Ashton Monroe for culinary arts, Matthew Ebel and Kevin Fornaser for automotive technology, and Matthew Sheeler for computer systems technology. The students will be inducted at an invitation-only induction ceremony at A.W. Beattie on April 7.

To be considered, students must maintain a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, have a grade of at least 93% in their career training programs, and miss no more than five days of school. Candidates also must have a clear disciplinary record and belong to a service organization or participate in an extracurricular activity.

The NTHS provides scholarships for ongoing education and works to improve the skilled workforce.

We have 800 students and we have 63 on that list to be inducted and they represent the best of their class, Beattie Student Ethics Coordinator and NTHS advisor Scott Scariot said. Im proud of them for how hard they work and how theyve met difficult standards to be nominated by their teachers for induction into the NTHS.

Shakespeare contest winners

Five Dorseyville Middle School students received honorable mentions as part of the 26th Annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest. Dorseyville Middle School eighth-graders Eric Pil, Liviya Rubin and Abraham White received honorable mentions in the Upper Division Monologue category. Seventh-graders Devon McDonald and Sophie Thorne received an honorable mention in the Lower Division Scene category.

The contest was in February at the Pittsburgh Public Theater with more than 1,000 students competing.

Students place in speech tournament

Several Fox Chapel Area High School students placed in the Pennsylvania High School Speech Leagues District 2 state championship-qualifying tournament.

The Policy Debate team of senior Rajeev Godse and junior Jackson Romero placed second; sophomore Siddharth Yende won second place in Lincoln Douglas Debate; and the team of senior Hanna Chen and junior Hannah Jahnke was awarded third place in duo interpretation.

All five of these students qualified to participate in the state tournament that will be March 13-14 at Bloomsburg University.

Six students will serveas alternates.

They are sophomore Alaina Kaslewicz, who won fifth place in commentary; seniors J. Oliver Choo and Sina Shaikh, who won sixth place in public forum debate; senior Angelique Uku, who placed sixth in prose interpretation; junior Suparna Agrawal, who won sixth place in extemporaneous speaking; and junior Anthony Nguyen, who placed sixth in Lincoln Douglas Debate.

The tournament was Feb. 22 at Pine-Richland High School with about 160 students participating.

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