Patton Congratulations!

Congratulations to the following students who all won awards at the Chester County Science Research Competition: Sam Fisher 3rd place in Earth Science; Viraj Joshi - 3rd place Environmental Science; Julia McDonnell - Honorable Mention in Chemistry; Jason Doyle - Honorable Mention in Physics. Viraj Joshi also won a special award - "The summer science academy award." Sam Fisher and Viraj Joshi will continue on to the Delaware valley science fair in April.

Congratulations to Ryan Hastings who has qualified to advance to the state level of the National Geographic Bee. Ryan will compete at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on April 4, 2014. Good luck, Ryan!

Patton Scientists!

After competing at the Patton Middle School Science Research Competition, fifteen projects advanced to the Chester County Science Research Competition sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company, which was held on March 4, 2014 at the Technical College High School Pickering Campus. Several of our students earned recognition for their projects and will be presented with awards on March 18, 2014 at an Awards Ceremony at Downingtown East High School. Student participants were 6th graders: Alex Cona, Viraj Joshi, Katelyn McGovern, Panos Moisiadis, and Evan Wang. 7th grade competitors were: Daniel Dembek, Jason Doyle, Sam Fisher, Josie Gallop, and Julia McDonnell. From 8th grade were: Daphne Ho, Michael Iacocca, Amber Liu, Jordan Marlowe, Brett Nilsen, and Michelle Prem. Check out all of Patton's young scientists right here!

Patton MATHCOUNTS

Congratulations to all the awesome Patton students who participated in MATHCOUNTS last weekend: Victor Li, Evan Wang, Daniel Hu, Anna Iacocca, Steven Chicchino, Lena Zhu, Austin Zhou, Nick Hall, Rishab Nandan, Connor Liu and Andrew Huang. And special congrats to Victor Li who finished in 2nd place!

Style for Sarcoma

Patton 8th grader Eva Sheppard has taken her passion for creativity and makeup design and created "Style for Sarcoma", an organization that benefits the sarcoma cancer community. Eva did all of this independently after being inspired by her close relative, AnaMarisa Velasco. Check out more about this great project at the organization's page on Facebook as well as it's channel on YouTube. Eva's story was featured in the website publication U lala.

Wizard of Oz

Charles F. Patton Middle School is proud to present, "The Wizard of Oz", with performances on April 3rd, 4th and 5th. This is the second year that Ms. JoAnna Stump, an Earth/Space Science teacher at Patton, and her daughter Rebecca have lead the production of a musical program at Patton. The cast and crew of over 90 talented students in grades 6-8 will bring the show to life for Patton and the community. Share in the magic and save the date for three fabulous performances on, April 3 at 7pm, April 4 at 8pm and April 5th at 2pm. Show tickets are only $5 and can reserved in advance online at cfpms.ucfsd.org/wizard/

In anticipation of the show, members of the cast-- including Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Glinda and the Wicked Witch-- will participate in a Character Meet and Greet free for local elementary school children and their parents on Saturday, March 29th at the middle school from 10AM until noon. The kids will get a sneak peak of the show through a live performance of one of the shows musical scenes. Then, they will enjoy themed games and photo opportunities with their favorite character, so bring your camera!

Run for Our Sons 2014

The 5th annual Run For Our Sons is rapidly approaching. The 5K and one mile fun walk will be here at CFPMS on April 5th. We also have family fun activities such as face painting, crafts and games. Please consider getting involved. Proceeds go to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy to fund critical research for Elliott (10) and Henry (7) who are living with Duchenne. We have a healthy competition going with Hillendale Elementary - they already have 72 registered participants and have been practicing before school even in the snow. Let's show this family the power of Patton. Visit www.parentprojectmd.org/unionville for more info and join Team Patton today. See Mrs. DiGregorio with questions.

Moonlight Madness Basketball

There will be music, basketball shooting contest and lots of fun at the First Annual Moonlight Madness 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 29 from 6 pm-11 pm at the UHS Gym. The event is open to Grades 6 through 12 plus and there will be an adult league, too. The fee is just $10 per player. In addition to basketball games, there will be a Free Throw shooting contest, a Three Point shooting contest and a Health Fair sponsored by FOCUS. Download a registration form and waiver as well as complete details and tournament rules and enter today!