8th Grade EOY Celebration!

Listen up 8th graders and mark your calendars!!! The Annual 8th Grade End of Year Celebration will take place on June 10 at UHS. The party runs from 5:30-9:30 PM. There will be dinner, a DJ, photo booth and more! Drop off for the event will be at Patton, with all activities at UHS. Questions! Contact Jen Hall jenhallmomof3@gmail.com or Dana Mayer at danaLmayer@gmail.com. There's still time to buy your tickets online right here!

PennDOT Engineers at Patton

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation took the time to share their experience and expertise with the students in Mr. Palo's Technology & Engineering class last Thursday. Civil Engineer/Project Manager Leanne Fullard and Civil Engineer/Bridge Inspector Kevin Sutow shared information about the bridges in our area and information about what it is like to be a civil engineer. One of the key topics of discussion was the "Pocopson Bridge" replacement project at the intersection of route 926 & Pocopson road which will effect these students and 13,000 citizens daily.  The information and time that they shared is greatly appreciated by the students. Here are just a few of the comments that the students shared after the presentation.

"Something that I found very interesting about the civil engineer's presentation was that there are about 22,000 bridges in PA."

"I found it very interesting that much testing was needed for a bridge inspection and data collection from scuba diving to the foundation to the hydraulic engineering needed for flood safety."

"What I found to be interesting from the civil engineer's presentation was that there are people like Mr. Sutow who goes under the bridges after being built and work on the technology of it."

This special visit directly ties to the structural engineering unit found in Patton's award winning Technology & Engineering program. Mr. Palo commented..."I was thrilled when PennDOT agreed to honor my request to come and share their expertise with our students, for a learning connection was made that they will remember for the rest of their lives." This is an example of the impacts that businesses and other entities can make if they take the time to team up with their local schools to create more "real world" S.T.E.M. connections.

Special Olympics 2016!

On May 25th, members of the Patton Peer Buddy Club traveled to Coatesville High School to participate in the 2016 Special Olympics Track and Field Event.  All of our Patton athletes did an amazing job.  It was a beautiful day and everyone had a great time.

Summer Reading!

Patton’s Summer Reading information is now available via Patton's Library Page. Paperback copies of The Wednesday War and Okay for Now, by Gary D. Schmidt are available for purchase at Patton’s Library for $7.00 each.  Checks payable to “Patton Middle School” and cash will be accepted.

Forensics Team News

Congratulations to the Patton Middle School Forensics Team for an outstanding performance at the Saturday, May 14, tournament, sponsored by the Chester County Intermediate Unit. We are very pleased and proud to announce the following results: In the event of Discussion, Lily Yang was awarded a 3rd place trophy. In Extemporaneous Speaking, Chirag Choudhary earned a second place trophy, and Adarsh Gadagkar came away with the first place trophy. In the area of Declamation, Brandon Tsai won a 2nd place trophy. In Poetry, Glorianna Yin received  second place, while Kaeli Kaymak-Loveless earned 1st place and were awarded trophies for their efforts. The Original Oratory event 1st place trophy went to Addison Liu. In Debate, in a field of 30 teams, Patton placed in the top four positions. After finals, In fourth place were Kyle Quain and Kyle Tascione, who earned medals, and trophies were given for 3rd place,to Connor Liu and Andrew Ge, 2nd place to Andrew Huang and Kevin Liao, and the first place Chester County Debate team winners Naman Razdan and Soumil Zachariah. We are certainly Patton Proud of all of our speakers and debaters for their excellent accomplishments in the tournament!

STEM Options Day

Ten 7th grade girls attended Penn State Brandywine's Stem Options Day on Thursday, May 12th.  The day will filled with workshops and panel discussions about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.  Students had the opportunity to attend sessions on oceanography, data analysis, occupational therapy, Tyler Aboretum, and global engineering.  A big thank you to Mr. Ragland for making the arrangements and to Mrs. Spisak and Mrs. Brogan for accompanying the girls. Check out the photos here!

Writing Contest Winner!

Congratulations to 7th grade student Tea Freeman who won a writing contest hosted by Scope Magazine. The editors of Scope wrote to Tea: "We loved your careful consideration of the many ways an object can have value, and how you described the sentimental worth of Laurel and Trevor's family objects in Rebecca Behrens' short story, Lost & Found. Beautifully articulated!" Tea's prize was a copy of the YA novel Summertime by Allie Condie. Congratulations, Tea!

Patton Band Concert

Congratulations to the Patton band program on a great spring concert! A video recording of the concert will be uploaded to YouTube in the near future. Thank you Bill Tsai (billtsaiphoto.com) for the wonderful photography!

Patton Knowledge Bowl

Congratulations to the Patton Knowledge Bowl Teams for their fine performance in Thursday's competition. Special recognition goes to the 8th grade team of Hunter Courtney, Rachel Folmar, Andrew Ge, Cal Harper, Catherine Odom, Angie Shen and Austin Zhou for their 3rd place finish. We are also proud of our two 6th grade teams. The team of Niko Angelakos, Connor Biederman, Arianna Coyne, Elinor Dana, Mariel DiNatle, Elijah Lee, Adam Luo and Caroline Willey came away with a 3rd place win, and the team of Chirag Choudhary, Saanvi Garg, Ansh Patel, Ibraheem Qureshi, Arnab Sircar, Sivani Srinivasan and Robert Wang ended the day in first place.

Patton at Kennett Head Start

Patton Middle School Student Council visited the Kennett Square Head Start Program on Tuesday, May 3rd. The Student Council donated over 100 bilingual and English children’s books for the Literacy Initiative supported by Project Head Start. While at the facility, the council members bonded with the youngsters by reading, sharing circle time activities, and engaging the students in puzzle making, clay cutting and tower building. Another main focus of the visit was to organize and establish a lending library from which the preschoolers will greatly benefit. Teachers at the facility shared with our students the importance of the lending library to the students and their families. This experience was as important and enriching to our middle school students as it was to the Head Start children! We are hopeful that this experience will be the beginning of an ongoing relationship with this special school. Our council members will be attending the graduation celebration of these students on Thursday, May 19 and handing out special books to each young student to honor their accomplishments. We are #PattonProud!