Avonworth seniors continue to wrap up their senior projects as the year slowly winds down. In 2024, senior projects were held in multiple locations, including the new small classrooms inside the re-designed library. Senior Project Advisors Dr. George and Mrs. Reilsono, stepping in for Mrs. Chester who was on sabbatical in 23-24, provided breakfast and…
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NBA Playoffs Beat 2024: Surprise Final Four
The conference finals for the 2023-24 NBA playoffs is officially set, and it’s not the final 4 most fans thought it would be. After a blistering performance in game 7 at the garden, the Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 130-109 becoming the first team in the series to win a road game. Led…
Varsity Baseball Continues Playoff Run in 2024
Currently, as of May 8th, Avonworth Varsity Baseball is 12-8 overall, and 8-2 against their conference. Their last two games, both against Steel Valley, were absolute landslides, as Avonworth won 15-0 on April 29th, and 11-0 on April 30th. Avonworth has 4 games left this season, with the first 3 all being home games. Avonworth…
Climate/Rio Grande do Sul Beat – Day 1
Floods in Southern Brazil accumulate around 157 dead. The environmental imbalance resulting from anthropic actions isn’t news to a vast majority of people. However, establishing a dialogue about the momentary and long-term effects of climate change becomes indispensable in the face of phenomena like the one experienced in Brazil. To provide context, Rio Grande do…
2024 Construction Update: May Includes More Classroom Revisions
One more section of the high school now has the same carpet and glass that defined classroom renovations in 2023 and 2024. See pictures below for a glimpse around campus in early May 2024. The old learning support rooms, home to Mrs. Negron, Ms. Wickert, Ms. Wahl, and Miss White, now are split into a…
2024 Prom: Roaring Up I-79 to Cranberry
Journalism 2 students went out around the under-construction high school on Monday, May 6th to hear what was good, mediocre, and could have been better from the 2024 Prom, themed with the Roaring ’20’s. Most significant? A move from Promenade in the auditorium followed by dance in downtown Pittsburgh at the David L Lawrence Convention…
Junior Wins Multiple Essay Competitions
Junior Emma Noss added onto her writing accomplishments at Avonworth by finishing in first place for the 2024 PA Scholar Ben Franklin Essay Competition and the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Essay Competition. Emma earned $6000 from the PA Society for her 750 word essay on a quotation from Ben Franklin. She was recognized for…
Avonews Artists Finish in Top Ten at Penn State for PSPA State Journalism Finals
Junior Airah Shafiq finished tied for 3rd and senior Bree Brown placed 3rd outright at the state final competition for PA School Press’s Journalism competition on Wed, April 3rd at Penn State’s Main Campus. Both competed in artwork categories, a first for the Avonews since PSPA restarted the competition in 2014. Competition focused on taking…
NFL 2024 Mock Draft – Top Five Players, Steelers Class of 2024
With the draft being two days away and the uncertainty of what will occur Thursday night, I am here to tell the top five most valuable players in this year’s 2024 NFL draft. As well as who the Steelers’ first four draft picks may be. Reminder these five players that I am about to name…
Earth Day 2024 – Campus Under Construction
For the first Earth Day in decades, students were not taking in the freshly blooming flowers in the courtyard, green buds on trees by the front entrance, or other signs of natural Spring growth around campus. One year into the district’s construction project around campus instead provided different scenes shown below from our Avonews reporters….