Press Release WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools recently announced that all WCS elementary schools and both middle schools have been recognized as Project Lead The Way Distinguished Schools for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of preK-12 students and teachers in schools …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools recently announced that Abbi Richcreek, Project Lead The Way teacher at Edgewood Middle School, has successfully launched a school-community partnership for GoBabyGo! Richcreek promotes STEM education through her classroom curriculum, after-school clubs and special projects such as GoBabyGo! According to a WCS press release, Richcreek reached out to secure funding …read more.

WARSAW — Abbi Richcreek, Project Lead The Way teacher at Edgewood Middle School, was named the 2019-20 Starfish Award recipient. According to a press release from Warsaw Community Schools, Richcreek has gone above and beyond to promote inclusiveness and awareness to the life-changing effect assistive technology can have for all people, no matter how young, …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Abbi Richcreek from Edgewood Middle School received the highest honor given to Project Lead The Way teachers — PLTW Outstanding Teacher — at the Project Lead The Way national conference. PLTW recognized Richcreek in front of hundreds of attendees, including teachers from across the United States. “We are grateful to our teachers for …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools announced that multiple schools within the district have been recognized by Project Lead the Way as Distinguished Schools for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW Launch. Warsaw’s distinguished schools included Edgewood Middle School, as well as Eisenhower, Harrison, Lincoln and Madison elementary schools. The PLTW …read more.

WARSAW — A grant-funded project at Warsaw Community Schools is being conceived with the purpose of providing the gift of mobility to area youngsters who are physically impaired, according to a WCS press release. Abbi Richcreek, and engineering and technology and Project Lead The Way teacher at Edgewood Middle School, reported Thursday, March 7, that …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw Community School Corporation celebrated both student achievement and staff accomplishments during a nearly two-hour-long regular session of the Board of School Trustees Monday night, May 21. In a board meeting chockfull of accolades pouring down on faculty and students alike, the board room was standing room only as those recognized were lauded …read more.

WARSAW — Edgewood Middle School announced it has been recognized as a Project Lead The Way Distinguished School for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW Gateway. Edgewood is one of 110 middle schools across the U.S. to receive this honor. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of K-12 …read more.

WARSAW — The Warsaw Community School Board met Monday evening, Aug. 15, for its first regular session of the 2016-2017 school year. School Resource Officer Doug Light introduced the two newest DARE officers, Allen Danko and Rogelio “Roy” Navarro. Both are Warsaw Community High School graduates, Danko in 1994 and Navarro in 1997. Both are certified school …read more.

SYRACUSE — With state funding tighter in recent years, grants are dearly welcomed by public schools. DEKKO Foundation has been generous in awarding grants to Wawasee schools in the past and the trend continues.

AKRON — Cargill Animal Nutrition, Mentone, recently donated Cargill Cares grant funds totaling $4,500 to the Tippecanoe Valley High School Boomerang Backpacks program and $6,000 to the Tippecanoe Valley Middle School Project Lead the Way program.

The design and modeling class is a gateway to technology course, part of the Project Lead the Way Program. Designed to be a pre-engineering class, students learn what engineers do and how they use the design process to create new and improved products. In this class, students learn about STEM and how it integrates science, …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Triton Community School Corporation Superintendent Matt Arvesen’s class at Triton Junior High School are working on and testing robotics cars in preparations for the upcoming robotics car races. The races will be held Friday morning at Triton High School. The robotics cars are one of the group projects the students are …read more.

There is a noticeable increase in the emphasis being placed on hands-on, engaging learning in school classrooms. While traditional classroom lecturing still has value, it is less likely to engage students in the learning process. Within the Wawasee Community School Corp., one way hands-on learning has been implemented is through the Project Lead The Way …read more.