Student in the News

July

Michelle Cease was recently awarded a scholarship by the Northumberland County Conservation District to attend the Penn State Conservation Leadership School (CLS) Scholarship in July, 2008.
CLS takes place in a unique setting at the university's Stone Valley Recreation Area near State College, Pa., students learn about the environment and conservation during a one-week program that emphasizes field-based, hands-on learning, group problem solving and leadership.
At Stone Valley, students will work in teams with faculty and staff from the School of Forest Resources and representatives of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Congratulations Michelle and thank you NCCD!

May
	The 2008 Sunbury Christian Academy Sr. High Envirothon Team took first place out of all of the schools participating from Northumberland County this year. In the overall competition out of 58 teams SCA placed 7th. Because of their first place finish, Sunbury Christian Academy will be heading to the Pennsylvania State Envirothon Competition being held on May 19th and 20th at State College. Congratulations on a job well done! To learn more about SCA's Envirothon teams please visit our Envirothon Page.
	The 8th Annual Ecology Class Canoe Trip was a huge success again. We only had 1 tip over this year and everybody's gear remained dry! We put in at Ansonia PA and into the beautiful waters of Pine Creek Gorge/Pennsylvania Grand Canyon to start our 3 day journey. We had a great time paddling, being together, eating gourmet meals, getting a little football in, catching a soccer ball with a sleeping mat (you had to be there for this one), some flashlight tag and getting a chance to see some majestic Bald Eagles.

April
Elijah Miller, Katie Zeigler, Carissa Erdman & Brittany Baumert	The 2008 Sunbury Christian Academy Jr. High Envirothon Team not only took first place this year they also had the highest scores on three out of the four test that were administered at the Jr. High Envirothon Competition. This team also scored a perfect 100 on the Wildlife test! 29 Jr. High Teams from Columbia, Montour and Northumberland County competed at this years 10th Annual Jr. High Competition. This is the second time that Sunbury Christian Academy has won back to back Jr. High Envirothon Competitions. Congratulations team you did great! To learn more about SCA's Envirothon teams please visit our Envirothon Page.
	Several students at SCA submitted artwork for the annual Northumberland County Conservation Districts poster contest sponsored by Furmano Foods, Inc. This year's conservation theme was "Water is Life". Christy Powlus earned a 1st Place ribbon, certificate and a cash prize for her efforts. Other students who participated were: Gabe Tamblin, Becky Gingrich, Jada Brosious, Erin Savidge, Andria Savidge, Justin Keller, Page Killgore and Michael Mull. Congratulations everybody!
	The High School Drama Team recently performed the play, Meet Me In St. Louis. The play is based on the 1944 movie of the same title and starred Judy Garland and featured the well known song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" The three night run of Meet Me In St. Louis treated guest to a full course Victorian dinner, songs performed by the SCA Chorus and the performance.

February

The Lady Eagles (20-3, 12-2 ACAA) finished the regular season tied for 1st as ACAA Eastern Division Co-Champions.
Over the Valentines weekend The Lady Eagles traveled out to Cambria County Christian School to compete in the ACAA Basketball Championships.
The Lady Eagles first met Huntingdon Christian, the five-time defending champions on Friday. The Lady Eagles had a good 1st quarter but fell behind in the 2nd quarter with Huntingdon Christian outscoring Sunbury Christian 16-4 to take a 19-12 halftime lead. The girls played hard with Chelsea Boyer scoring 12 points and coming down with 10 rebounds. The girls outscored Huntingdon 10-5 in the fourth quarter but still came up short with a final score of 32-28.

In the third place consolation game the Lady Eagles met the 1st seed Great Commission Bears. The Bears pulled out to a 7-4 1st quarter lead but the Eagles kept it close and were only down by 1 point when they went to the locker room at halftime. A strong 14-5 3rd quarter allowed the Lady Eagles to pull ahead and never look back at they sealed up a 3rd place finish with a 44-35 win over Great Commission. During the game Rebecca Powlus scored nine points and had eight rebounds, while Bethany Hays chipped in eight points and seven rebounds.

Rebecca Powlus and Chelsea Boyer were both named to the 2008 ACAA Girls Basketball All-Star team..

Congratulations Lady Eagles!

Gary Daddario reached the 1000 point milestone during the last home game Friday (2-8-08)! With 3 points needed Gary shot from outside the 3 point arc and it was nothing but net. Family and fans rushed the court to congratulate Gary for scoring his 1,000 career point. Gary finished off his career with 1,017 points. Congratulations Gary!

January

This years Ecology Class is involved in a year long stream study with The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) and Susquehanna University Science in Motion (SIM). The SRBC has been monitoring sediment and nutrients in the Susquehanna River Basin for nearly twenty years. During this time, the SRBC noted a need for more involvement at the local watershed level.
This partnership gives local students the opportunity to meet this need. Sunbury Christian Academy students are using high tech equipment to conduct temperature, dissolved oxygen, flow rate, pH and conductivity measurements of Lithia Springs, a third order tributary of the Susquehanna River. In addition to the analyses mentioned, students collect stream water using a depth integrated sampler. These samples are shipped overnight to the PA DEP and analyzed by their laboratory for 10 additional inorganic analyses. To view the results performed this year, please visit Http://www.susqu.edu/sim/waterqualitydata.htm

December

Recently a group of students from the SCA Ecology class wrapped up a unit on GPS systems and went Geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which a Global Positioning System (GPS) is used to hide and seek containers (called geocaches or caches) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and a treasure, usually toys or small trinkets.
Our quest was to seek and find 4 caches in a 15 mile radius from the school: we found 3 of the geocaches, had some Chinese food for lunch an had a great morning Geocaching together.

October

Gary Daddario III - has been chosen as an October Outstanding Young American. The Outstanding Young American Program honors and rewards area high school seniors for their extra-curricular and academic achievements. The Young Americans Program is organized by the Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce and is presented by The Daily Item, The Danville News, and Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation.
Gary is the Student Council President, Captain of the SCA Boys Varsity Soccer & Basketball Teams, Yearbook Business Manager, participates on the Praise Team, Senior High Envirothon and is a member of the Drama Team.
Gary plans to attend Bloomsburg University to double major in Physics and Engineering.
Gary's parents are Gary and Jennifer Daddario.

March
	This month a group of High Schoolers spent the day at Climbnasium, an indoor rock climbing gym in Mechanicsburg, PA. Students learned how to belay for each other, the importance of the double 8 knot and were given several challenges in the bouldering room.

November
	Gary Daddario III - Gary was selected as an ACAA League All-Star. Gary is a sweeper and team captain. Players are chosen based on their outstanding play on the field, sportsmanship and leadership on and off the field. Congratulations Gary!