Pennington School To Host Maker Faire

Bringing together tech enthusiasts, inventors, engineers, students, and commercial exhibitors, The Pennington School will be hosting the second annual Mercer Bucks Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, April 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

With a focus on creativity and innovation, there will be more than 40 different activities and exhibits for kids and adults, including robot programming, painting, playing in a virtual world, and much more.

In attendance will be Craig Trader’s Chaos Machine, STEAM Works Studio, Hyperspace Gaming, Amazing Escape Room, and many other “makers.”

“Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do,” states the Maker Faire website. “We call it the Greatest Show (&Tell) on Earth — a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.  Glimpse the future and get inspired!”

Tickets, at mercerbucksminimakerfaire2019.eventbrite.com, are free but required to attend.

Keel Featured in NASW Magazine

Princeton High School (PHS) Social Worker and Coordinator of Student and Family Services Lenora Keel was recently featured in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)-NJ monthly magazine.

In the NASW-NJ article, Keel, who is advisor for the Minority Student Achievement Network student leadership group, described her work at PHS. “Every day I have the ability and the opportunity to lift someone up, to empower, to challenge, to guide, and to be a light for someone who is struggling to find their way out of the dark,” she said. “Every day, I have the opportunity to make a difference.”

Describing school social workers as “the unsung heroes of our community,” NASW-NJ Executive Director Jennifer Thompson stated, “I realized that the moment my kindergartner came home from school to talk about shelter in place. It’s social workers like Ms. Keel who are not only helping our children make sense of what this means to them, but supporting us parents as we struggle to understand a world which is so drastically different than the one we grew up in.”

WW-P South and Community MS Win NJ Science Olympiad

Community Middle School (West Windsor) and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South teams, winners in the March 12 State Finals held at Middlesex County College, will be going to the 2019 Science Olympiad National Tournament at Cornell University on June 1.

The top Science Olympiad teams, representing 27 middle schools and 27 high school from all over New Jersey, participated in the state finals. West Windsor-Plainsboro North finished second, Montgomery High School third, and Princeton High School was fourth in the high school division.

Designed to encourage students’ interest in science and technology, the competition includes tests, firing bottle rockets, launching gliders, racing self-propelled cars, and more.