The Anchor The Perry County Central Newsletter February 27, 2016 Choir Congratulations Annie Combs was honored with selection to the KMEA All-State Women s Chorus. She attended and participated in the All-State Events in Louisville, Kentucky. The PCC Mission Statement is students at Perry Central will adapt to an ever-changing world through high expectations and rigorous instruction in order to achieve college and career readiness and the skills necessary to succeed as productive citizens. Inside 2 PCC FFA Program Commodore PCC Band 3 Players D Honors Production 8 PCC Guidance Department
Senior Trip And Dues Senior dues will be $15 again this year and can be paid to Mrs. Miller in room 203 anytime between now and graduation in the spring. Stop by her room before school, at break, after school, or during 6th period except on Thursdays. The senior trip will be in New York, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. The trip includes: Round trip transportation in a deluxe 55 passenger motor coach with TV/DVD/Lavatory 5 night hotel accommodations(hampton Inn, or equivalent) 5 breakfasts 4 dinners-hard Rock Café; Planet Hollywood; $20 on Times Square Guided tours of Philadelphia and New York City Admission into the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Broadway Show, 911 Museum, Ride the Ducks, ghost walk of Philadelphia, and Luna Park at Coney Island. Raptor Program The PCC Agriculture Department had a Raptor Program and students were allowed to gain some hands on experience. They enjoyed this program. Prom 2016 L Amour Masque Make high school memories by traveling back in time to Old Paris for an all-out masquerade ball at this year s Junior/Senior Prom. Prom will take place Saturday, April 30 th at HCTC and doors will open at 8:00 p.m. At the beginning of the year, all juniors were notified about how junior dues work for prom. Juniors pay for prom because seniors come as guests. Junior dues increase $10 every month starting second semester. We have been selling items all year to help students earn their dues. Dues for the month of February are $90 and will increase to $100 on March 1st. We still have candy bars to sell and juniors can earn $14 toward dues for every bag sold. Contact Jennifer Sluss in room 248 for questions or to sell candy bars. 2
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Art Contest: Create an Ad for School Breakfast! You already know about all the benefits of a healthy school breakfast. Ask your students to share their take on why they love it by creating their own advertisement for breakfast at school! In the 2016 art contest, students will draw an ad for school breakfast, using a combination of pictures and words. Three national winners will receive special prize packs, and their ads will be published on the SNA website. Entries are due Thursday, March 31, 2016*! Download the submission forms below. Contest Overview You can hold your own Create an Ad for School Breakfast contests at the school or district level to narrow down your submissions. Each school can only enter three (3) entries to the national contest. All entries by students must be made to a local competition (to be organized by and held in schools). Please note that the only way to enter this contest is through a participating school, students cannot enter the contest directly or through a parent. On the official entry form, students should draw their ad for school breakfast. They need to include both images and words as well. To judge the national contest, a panel of judges will select three national winners, based on criteria like creativity, skill, and messaging. The winners (one from Elementary School, Middle School, and High School) will receive a prize packs from SNA and their ads will be published on the website. Entries must be original, not plagiarized and not evocative of any existing commercial characters so as not to infringe any copyrights or trademarks. Entries are due March 31, 2016. Pancake Breakfast The Nick Cory Scholarship pancake breakfast will be held at the new Wendy s by Lowes on March 5 th this year. This money funds a $1000 scholarship to be given to one of Perry Central s seniors. For the first time the Nick Cory Scholarship is also funding a $500 scholarship to a Perry Central senior wrestler. The Cory, family in conjunction with the Hazard Kiwanis Club, PCC wrestling, and PCC JROTC, annually raises funds through the pancake breakfast and the wrestling preseason Nick Cory Takedown Tournament. The scholarship is in its ninth year and began by the faculty/staff of Perry Central and friends of Nicholas Cory who were 2005 PCCHS graduates. Tickets can be purchased from JROTC cadets, Kiwanis members, or Major and Mrs. Cory. Please support our effort to keep the scholarship funded. Thank you. 4
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PCC Cheerleaders The PCC Cheerleaders placed 6 th Nation and 3 rd in the Worlds Competition. Great Job. PCC Wrestling We took seven youth wrestlers to the State Youth Tournament in Louisville yesterday. We came back with one state champion, one runner up, and a fourth place medalist. Congratulations to State Champion Ian Montgomery, Runner up Derek Gaige Logan, and 4 th place Maddox Bryant. High school wrestling individual regionals are Saturday at Bourbon County. If you see any of the wrestlers this week, please give them a word or two of encouragement. We have a very tough region to get through to qualify for state. 106 pound-nicholas Sebastian 120 pound-henry Sepulveda 132 pound- Joe Melton 138 pound-bret Renzie Costello 170 pound-zack Smith 182 pound-william Long 285 pound-joe Howard 6
Tate Wyrick Congratulations to Tate Wyrick who signed with Lindsey Wilson this week. This is where he will further his education and also play on the football team as a kicker. We wish you the best of luck. Jordan and Seth Congratulations to Jordan Combs and Seth Napier who both have signed to play football at UPike. They will join several other fellow teammates. We would like to wish them luck as they further their education and participate in their extracurricular activities. Both of these young men will be an asset to this program. 7
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If you or your students have questions or want more information about the Air Force Academy, please contact your area's admissions advisor, as well as the Admissions Liaison Officer (ALO) who lives in your community for your school. The Nomination Process To be eligible to accept an offer of appointment to the Academy, applicants must be nominated by a legally authorized nominating entity. The process of securing a nomination is competitive and lengthy. It is recommended that students begin applying for a nomination at the same time that they are completing their Pre-Candidate Questionnaire. Read more about Nominations to determine the categories for which your students are eligible, then they should contact their appropriate nominating authority to make their request. Students should request a nomination in all categories for which they are eligible, and do so as early as possible. The deadlines of nominating sources vary and could be as soon as early September. Regardless of when they initiate their process, nominations must be received by the Academy no later than January 31. As a reminder, the application processes and deadlines are separate for the nominations processes and deadlines. Summer Programs Summer Seminar: Summer Seminar offers a unique opportunity to experience the Air Force Academy first-hand. It is specially designed for high school juniors heading into their senior year to get a realistic perspective of cadet life. Students will live in the dormitories, eat at the Academy s dining facility, explore the various academic/military programs and courses that the Academy has to offer, and participate in a variety of different physical fitness activities (to include a practice CFA). The application is open from 1 December 2015 to 15 January 2016, and it is free to apply. There are two sessions: 12-17 June 2016 and 19-24 June 2016. STEM Engineering and Construction Camp: This camp is designed to provide high school students with a world-class experience in STEM skills following a "Build the Design" model. This one week program is supervised and led by engineers and located at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The program runs from 7-13 July 2016. Summer Sports Camps: We offer Summer Falcon Sports Camps for student 8 to 18 who want to participate in numerous sports and are led by our very own head coaches. 12
13 Alumni Spotlight Jaden Ritchie, a 2015 PCC Graduate, recently participated in the Great Lakes Basic Naval Graduation. We would like to congratulate him on this achievement which is just one stop along the way of his Naval career. Currently, he is attending a corpsman school for the Navy which is a 14 week school where he will learn basic EMT Nursing and Battlefield Medicine. Then, he will be given the choice to attend a C school in which he will specialize in a field of medicine ranging from respiratory to nuclear medicine, go the fleet, or go to a hospital. We would like to wish him luck in the future and let him know we are very proud of his success. We look forward to hearing more about him.