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Niamh Gagnon , a 1st grade student at Center School, needs support for talking and expanding her communication skills. Niamh uses her iPad with a communication application called Touch Chat as a voice output device to help with communication skills in her classroom and with her teachers and her peers. On March 5, 2015, Niamh received one of the 2015 Outstanding Student Technology Awards from Infinitec Southwest, a division of United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago, for her exceptional progress using assistive technology. Jerling Junior High students memorized an incredible amount of digits of Pi during Jerling’s annual Pi Day memorization Competition. The previous school record for memorization was 313 digits. Congratulations to Jerling Junior High students Tim Gockel , 7th grade, who memorized 480 digits and Emily Ras , 7th grade, who memorized 463 digits. Orland Junior High held a fundraiser “Pack the Gym” in honor of Lauren Hill to benefit “The Cure Starts Now Foundation.” Pictured are students from OJH who purchased t-shirts for the fundraiser. Lauren was in college and on Mount St. Joseph University basketball team and has since retired due to her health continuing to decline. Lauren was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Orland Junior High raised $1,200 for “The Cure Starts Now Foundation.” 5th grade students from High Point School submitted essays for the American Association of University Women’s Writing Contest in honor of Women’s History Month. Niamh Towmey received 1st place and Nicole Kaple received 2nd place and Kaitlin Kasza received an honorable mention at the Palos Heights Library on March 12th, 2015.

Orland Park residents Connor Begley , MatthewWoodall , Matthew Schroers , Nathan Schroers , Ian Schroers , Caleb Negley and Noah Goshen are supporting the St. Baldricks Foundation for the third straight year and walking the halls of High Point School and Park Elementary with shaved heads. Since the kids began raising funds for the cause, the Band of Baldies has raised almost $10,000 in support of childhood cancer research. Great job, kids. For the past eight years, second and third graders at Prairie School have participated in a school spelling bee. This year, 75 students volunteered to put their spelling knowledge to the test. The winner needed to spell two words correctly in order to win and that is just what 1st place winner Layan Ibrahim did. She was followed in 2nd place by Amal Vazques and 3rd place by Rylee Erickson . Congratulations to all participants for trying their best.

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