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– To the Wheeling Park High School students that competed this past week at the Vex Robotics Championships in Dallas. The school qualified three teams for the national event, and one team -- Iron Patriot Mark 1 -- made it through the opening round, qualifying fifth out of 800 teams, before being eliminated in the second round. Iron Patriot Mark 1 -- led by senior Ethan Matz -- advanced to the elimination rounds in the engineering division Thursday afternoon. Other members of the team included Adam Ginting, Isaac Garrison and Christopher Alkhouri.
That's an amazing accomplishment for such a young program at Wheeling Park. Congratulations!
– To the teachers and service personnel employees in Ohio and Marshall County Schools named this past week as the best of their professions.
In Marshall County, Bricie Brannan, a Sherrard Middle School STEM teacher, was named the Teacher of the Year. Heather Markonich, media library aide at Sherrard, was named Service Personnel of the Year.
In Ohio County, Jaime Young, first grade teacher at Woodsdale Elementary, was named Teacher of the Year. Debbie Black, a kindergarten instructional assistant at Madison Elementary, was honored as Service Personnel Employee of the Year.
Congratulations on the well-deserved honors!