MILESTONES

MILESTONES

SCOUTS

Curt Leonard, son of Clay and Cheryl Leonard, has earned his Eagle Scout award. He has been a Boy Scout since second grade, starting out as a Cub Scout with Pack 661. Leonard earned his Arrow of Light in 2010 and graduated to Boy Scout Troop 366 at Westminster Presbyterian Church. A brotherhood member of Order of the Arrow, he attended Philmont high adventure camp in New Mexico, where he hiked approximately 100 miles in backcountry wilderness in July 2015.

A senior at Upper St. Clair High School, outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., Leonard’s Eagle Scout project was to map and log all the fire hydrants in the township by obtaining and verifying the GPS coordinates of more than 400 hydrants. He was able to provide the Upper St. Clair Volunteer Fire Department with an Excel spreadsheet database, which firefighters can use to locate the nearest hydrant en route to a fire or emergency.

In addition to scouting, Leonard is a member of the high-school varsity hockey team, ski club and National Honor Society. He also plays guitar and runs his own lawn-care business. After graduation, Leonard plans to major in chemical engineering at Penn State University.

He is the grandson of Norm and Jeanne Hoefler of Austintown and Stan and Peg Leonard of Canfield and the great-grandson of Robert J. Smith of Austintown.

honors

Several Beaver Local teachers are among 17 in Northeast Ohio to be recognized for their innovative ideas. Beaver Middle School math teachers Sarah Lowe and Beth Barber, and Beaver High School Spanish teacher Michele Rhodes received more than $8,000 as part of the 2016 innovative mini grant program. The Turning Foundation, in conjunction with the Raymond John Wean Foundation and the Eastern Ohio Education Partnership, sponsored the program and gave away a total of $52,000 in mini grants this year.

Senora Rhodes’ project is called the Bilingual Cross-Grade Reading Adventure. Beaver Local High School Spanish 1 students will pair up with Beaver Local second graders to read to each other in Spanish and English. The $3,372 mini grant will furnish classroom libraries with children’s books. Eighth-grade math teachers Sarah Lowe and Beth Barber earned a $5,000 mini grant to provide equipment for project iCreate. It will purchase MacBooks to run the software and technology, and LEGO mindstorms. Project iCreate is an on-going all out effort to implement a STEM classroom and an after school Makerspace.

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