Lampeter-Strasburg (L-S) School District students have recently won awards and been chosen to attend leadership and arts events.
Bethany Barrall visited Carnegie Hall this summer to receive her second consecutive Scholastic Art and Writing National Gold Key for novel writing. She will be a freshman at L-S High School for the 2019-20 school year.
As sophomores, Samantha Monroy and Julie Stinson attended the Central Pennsylvania Hugh O'Brian Youth (HOBY) Leadership Seminar from May 16 to 19 at Shippensburg University.
Samantha and Julie joined more than 350 central Pennsylvania high school students for an intensive leadership experience that included a day of mock legislature on the floor of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. HOBY ambassadors also spent time working on selected community service projects. Samantha spent the day at a library, and Julie served at a horse farm. On the final day, seminar participants took part in reflection as well as a closing ceremony for parents.
Each year, L-S High School's HOBY ambassador and alternate are chosen through an application process, which includes an essay about leadership submitted to HOBY liaison Mrs. Kochel and selection by administrators. The GFWC Lampeter-Strasburg Area Woman's Club has been sponsoring trips to the HOBY conference for the past 35 years. More information about HOBY can be found at http://www.HOBY.org
Incoming Martin Meylin eighth-graders Madeline Cole and Ellie Young earned a spot in the eighth annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival this spring for their video summary of "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Their original video was featured on the 90-Second Newbery website and shown at a public screening and reception in New York City.
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival encourages students of all ages to submit creative videos that summarize Newbery-winning books in 90 seconds or less.
As seventh-graders, Madeline and Ellie were inspired by contest videos that English language arts teacher Mrs. Gleiberman would show before class. Working completely on their own, they agreed to create a video based on "Holes" and then planned, filmed, and edited the video before submitting it to the festival in January.
Several weeks later, Madeline and Ellie decided to check the 90-Second Newbery website and found that their video had been featured, along with a positive review. The young filmmakers also attended a screening of their video at the New York Public Library as part of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival.
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