Category: Quakertown Community School District

Three Quakertown Community School District stu­dents are among a small group of 10 from Bucks County to win the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce 2020 Young Citizen Award.

Strayer Middle School seventh-grader Alivia Remick and Quakertown Community High School seniors Mason Smith and Raymond Slifer each received the hon­or. The … Read more...

When Audrey Nolte, the daugh­ter of Holocaust sur­vivors, speaks to stu­dents, one of the many high­lights of her pre­sen­ta­tion involves the sto­ry of her father’s pock­et watch, a gift from his father.

When Mrs. Nolte explains how a Nazi guard pur­pose­ful­ly stepped on it, break­ing the glass, stu­dents hear­ing the … Read more...

Two Quakertown Community High School seniors have been rec­og­nized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their excep­tion­al aca­d­e­m­ic promise.

Avinash Paul qual­i­fied as a semi­fi­nal­ist in the pres­ti­gious pro­gram for 2022 while Avadar Brownlee achieved the sta­tus of a Commended Student.

Students entered the National Merit Scholarship Program, a … Read more...

After each new grad­u­ate walks the stage to receive their diplo­ma, Superintendent Dr. Bill Harner meets them at the bot­tom of the steps to shake their hand.

On Friday night he shook the hand of near­ly 385 grad­u­ates at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. As he held the hand of Alexandra Brandis, … Read more...

What if … you’re a teacher in the hall­way and you hear some­thing that sounds like glass break­ing.? What do you do? 

What if … you’re a school nurse and you hear stu­dents run­ning down a hall­way shout­ing? What do you do?

What if … you’re a cafe­te­ria work­er and you hear … Read more...

The ener­gy in the Pennsylvania Capitol wasn’t radi­at­ing from the 18-foot Douglas Fir that Gov. Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf lit dur­ing the December annu­al tree light­ing ceremony.

No, the ener­gy flow­ing in the rotun­da came from the melo­di­ous tones on the mar­ble steps. The mar­velous voic­es belong … Read more...

Pennsylvania Department of Education Acting Secretary Noe Ortega vis­it­ed the Upper Bucks County Technical School June 2nd to rec­og­nize the “high accom­plish­ments” of Presidential Scholar Raymond Slifer and tout the impor­tance of career and tech­ni­cal education.

Raymond, a stu­dent at Quakertown Community High School and the UBCTS, is Pennsylvania’s … Read more...

Students from Pfaff and Richland recent­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in the STEM Design Challenge at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit.

Zach Garger, a K‑12 Instructional Coach and the Quakertown Community School District’s Math and Science Content Specialist, said the event is a “unique expe­ri­ence” for ele­men­tary school stu­dents.

“It gives kids at … Read more...

Megan K. Edinger, direc­tor of orches­tras at sev­en schools in the Quakertown Community School District, has been pro­mot­ed to the rank of Major (MAJ) in the Army National Guard.

MAJ Edinger offi­cial­ly received her pro­mo­tion Friday, November 6 at the National Guard Armory in Allentown. Army Lieutenant Colonel. … Read more...

As she watched the Pennsylvania State SkillsUSA Virtual Conference at home on YouTube, Abby Jacobes lis­tened as the win­ners of the Welding Sculpture Competition were announced.

When she heard third place fol­lowed by sec­ond place and her name hadn’t been called, Abby fig­ured, “Okay, I had a good run. I … Read more...

A touch of Broadway came to Quakertown Community High School Oct. 25 as pro­fes­sion­al actors led work­shops for more than 100 stu­dents and then per­formed Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Amy Migliore, Digital Design teacher at Quakertown Community High School, has been named Pennsylvania Art Education Association 2019 Secondary Art Educator of the Year.

Ms. Migliore, well known as an inno­v­a­tive edu­ca­tor and in demand as a speak­er at uni­ver­si­ty con­fer­ences, has been an art teacher in QCSD for 19 … Read more...

Close to 200 stu­dents packed into the Quakertown Community High School cafe­te­ria this morn­ing, lis­tened intent­ly to a dynam­ic speak­er, and then braved the bit­ter cold in var­i­ous parts of Bucks County to serve their fel­low citizens.

The district’s first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service — fol­low­ing a … Read more...

Eleven Quakertown Community High School stu­dents earned the AP Capstone Diploma™ dur­ing the 2020–21 school year. The pro­gram helps stu­dents devel­op crit­i­cal think­ing, research, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and pre­sen­ta­tion skills that are crit­i­cal to aca­d­e­m­ic success.

The excep­tion­al stu­dents are 2021 grad­u­ates Rachel X. Anderson, Jonas Moll, and Ava T. Rossini, … Read more...

Students at Pfaff Elementary School have been ben­e­fit­ing this week from the cutting-edge tech­nol­o­gy of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit’s Fab Lab, designed to inspire and encour­age stu­dents to pur­sue careers in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) fields.

Pfaff’s Fab Lab work this week (Nov. 8–12), which includes stu­dents … Read more...