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Chaney students pick new school logo
By Denise Dick
YOUNGSTOWN
With the last class of Chaney Cowboys graduated, Principal Joseph Krumpak wanted a logo that symbolized the school’s new focus.
He organized a contest, allowing students and teachers to submit entries that identify Chaney as a visual and performing arts and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics campus.
Members of the school’s Quaglia Team, students from across grade levels, chose the top three designs of the roughly 100 entries submitted. Members of the student body selected their favorite, designed by Craig Popovich, the school’s commercial-arts instructor.
The design maintains the school’s red and gray colors with black accents with a black shield bearing a red “C” and a gray “H,” for Chaney High. Chaney VPA and STEM Campus labels the shield.
The crown “gives it a regal look,” Popovich said.
The shield is flanked by a pair of wings.
“The wings are for giving you wings to try to reach your dreams and achieve high goals,” he said.
Senior Tatiaunna Jones helped Popovich finish the design, adding shading and other final touches to the piece.
“It’s about school pride and getting kids involved, giving them a voice,” Popovich said.
The Quaglia Institute for Students Inspirations is wrapping up its third year in the city schools. The Maine-based organization works to provide students with a voice in their schools with the idea of improving climate and performance.
Each school has a Quaglia Team, a group of students who lead the initiatives.
“It’s allowing kids to have a voice and a say-so in their education,” the commercial-arts instructor said.
Chaney, formerly a traditional high school, became a VPA and STEM school for the 2011-12 school year, so the last students who associated their school with the old structure graduated last year.
“This is the first year we’ve had students who have been here the full four years of the program,” he said.
Popovich used Adobe Illustrator to create the logo, which will be included on school shirts, jackets and other apparel as well as debit cards available for Home Savings account holders.