students together at sporting events the spirit committee school is essentially to raise awareness for help on the games can be when everyone comes out and shows their pride we hope to see all of you come out and support for the indians this is been if you want to help out the spirit committee be sure to attend the event of the week in your red and white the students at patriots us have shown more school spirit throughout the past few years with the help of the rowdy red now we go to kasey deluca who had an explosive interview with the operator of the your spirit this season character education across the united states is based on six pillars of character schools encourage trustworthiness respect responsibility fairness caring and citizenship for more about how we are setting examples of good character here p t h s we now go to lead again this character counts as a community organization that incorporates fire police local ministerial and any community group that would like to be a part of it character councils made up of all those groups and they meet once a month for an hour to discuss the mission but we do a lot of things for students that are character building we you know student leadership groups we incorporate really anything that is anything that is year celebration of character counts occurred september seventeenth an oratorio township celebration there were musical performances and skits and the unveiling of a new character counts logo it was a great opportunity for members of the community to come together if you were not able to attend the fifteen year celebration you can watch a recording of the entire presentation on peter's tantric community television channel seven check p t c t seven dot com for current schedule listings grit is described to be having strength as a character many colleges and employers are looking for great qualities such as perseverance and courage let's go to frank mail for more information on grit in the classroom gray has been defined by angela duckwor claims it is a work ethic that includes being able to bounce back from failure as a teacher i've noticed with grades my whole teaching career and this year especially i am trying to help students recognize the concepts and recognize that it's going to be what they need to be successful and life includes a combination of work ethic resiliency and having papers township is encouraging all students to excel in grit almost thirty percent of teens experience a strong amount of stress in their high school years according to science nordic we now go to kasey de luca for more information about how teens can handle stress stress is a major cause of anxiety among teens today there are many factors that are causing young people to be stressed some of these factors include sports school and extracurricular activities it is important to be able to manage all of your activities just comes in many forms one tends to shut down when feeling stressed rather than trying to balance it out in order to cope with your situation it is crucial that you have someone to talk to whether it's a parent a coach a teacher or a friend another coping mechanism is being able to sit down with someone to schedule at all of your activities another factor of stress is teens are very sleep deprived so stress comes in many forms one of the forms is that students just shut down when their feelings drastic or their are unable to cope they're in a situation where they can't move on so one of the most important things is to really find someone to talk to this is nicole beaton or porting for headlines if you need additional help in dealing with stress the guidance department is available to help students manage their time as well as guiding them in the right direction a new method that has been introduced to pinterest township students for applying to college is called  this students can collect all of their information into a single online portfolio to send out to colleges using computer applications for students that are still researching college opportunities there's a career for the has school from six thirty to eight thirty p parents interested in financial aid it can attend a presentation at the library on october twenty first from six thirty to eight thirty after the break we introduce you to the district's new superintendent show you some of the new safety procedures and welcome you into the doors of open house here at p what you do like all young people with disabilities should grow if expecting to work and succeed for more information visit what can you do campaign dot org tools sure make our lives easy but a tool is only as useful as the hand that holds it when it comes to straightening crooked teeth and misaligned jaws orthodoxies have all the right tools in their tool box they're the most skilled professionals to oversee  care orthodontists have the expertise that comes with two to three years of specialized education school they know best which instruments to use when correcting orthodontic problems what your smile in the right hands is it braces dot org you can't text and pay attention to the world around you and you definitely every year deaths due to distracted and negligent driving are increasing in fact while drunk driving rates have dropped greatly negligent driving have skyrocketed find out more and negligent driving  doctor friends a new superintendent for peters township has been in education for seventeen years prior to coming to p t s d she was the assistant superintendent for the city of pittsburgh she really likes working with teachers and the community to better our township the board of directors sets the vision for the district and it's dr francis job to make it happen the vision is rich older to leave home prepared for life beyond high school it is important for students to embrace the high school experience instead of just going through the motions in her eyes high school should be an investment in a child's future not merely a chore the way that you know my role in shaping this is helping the adults get together in a way that's going to support our children helping our adults believe that they can be discipline ministry to scan school buildings across the town to for risks and improvements they could make when we address safety for the school district it's never done it's something that is a constant ongoing process for us so we are constantly looking at our systems and seeing how we can make it better in the district among the new additions to the school safety system this year or new bugs in features were office attendance can speak to people before buzzing them into the building new cameras are also added to monitor the activity within the school as well reporting from peter township high school this is been chain days and signing off remember if you are going to be a good change any building is open one must present a photo id upon entering the facility in accordance with the new safety procedures the high school is instituting a leaving the building students must pick up the blue outside the attendance office in order to leave their classroom on the day of their early dismissal of students who normally drive to school are permitted to park in the early dismissal lot the way that reads now is that the early dismiss policy is exact same as the tardy policy just flipped if school after seven thirty they are considered tardy they sign at the attendance office in the attendance secretary write this student pass to get into class students can check their power school to see how township school district hosts an open house at one of its schools parents get a chance to meet their child's teachers and see their classrooms for more information we go to brianna spiralis to buy school open houses in september there was a very large turnout this year including some students i had come to listen to their teachers speak open house is also a great way to me administrators as you have their undivided attention while they guide parents to various the classroom if you're not able i'm starting to worry about my boyfriend one minute he's supporting the next minute everything is my fault he says a couple of beers get him in a good mood his idea of a couple of beers usually turns out to be a lot more than just one or two and that's when i start to on family groups so i can understand my feelings better i didn't want to go because i didn't want to get into another argument with my boyfriend but i'm glad i didn't i'm starting to understand that i didn't cause his anger it didn't cause his drinking it's a great relief to hear a new welcome back to headlines more and more students have been getting involved in the community one way students have gotten involved is through the interact club here at peters township high school for more information about the club we take you to  interact club was started three years ago by mrs alexander the gifted coordinator she was approached by the macquarie rotary club and asked to start a service organization at the high school the club a senator around student service and civic engagement providing students with the opportunity to build character become involved in the community and have a sense of the bigger picture the reason i joined the part of the club in the first place was to help others in the community in the school and to make their lives if you want to learn more ways to get involved through this organization please visit www dot p t s d dot twelve dot dot us students interested in foreign languages are offered the opportunity to participate in additional activities by enrolling in clubs one of the clubs involved in the peter such a spanish club last year peters township had a spanish club and in return this year they pride themselves with their beautiful that they later give to them very student culture is very important to the spanish club so they help to infuse cultural experience i'm hoping to bring a more community outreach to spanish this year whether that's going to the elementary schools or finding places in our community where spanish is spoken spanish cup officers matt nike and clayton wunderlich will leave the club to create sugar skulls in jada's and making a variety of spanish foods to really embrace the spanish culture this is rachel the high school has a hands on practical approach to project production one of the courses offered is competitive technology christian phelps tells us more on what it is actually like to be in this class competitive tech is a class offered by the technology education department p t h s the class is based around creative thinking and problem it teaches students to think outside the box in order to complete certain challenges with limited tyrannous making the student utilize practical application of knowledge this class works in the classroom computer lab and workshop i'm hoping that they gain an understanding of how forces and loads affect the structure of structural integrity so how does a weight push down a column and how does that columns tribute that w down to the ground and then eventually keeping the building upright collapsing this class is great to enroll yourself into if you have a passion for architecture construction or even graphic design many of the projects are based off of real life structures or problems the project itself is just scaled down this is a recording from the computer's township competitive tech lab bottles and drawings created by this department will be on display at the imagination celebration the district wide art show at the high school in may last year an organization was created to allow the collective voice of the student body to be heard for more information on this group we  gathers in the library to discuss student issues and ideas club and student leaders propose their thoughts at these meetings the council is currently working on a project called the service network the service network is an initiative that the executive council is working on and basically what it's going to do is connect organizations in the community to volunteers at the high school through a website so that we can really bring the community together the service network website can be  advisory council at peters township high school is a welcoming club that is always looking for new faces they work together with miss meyer's to plan and organize events such as the library luncheon the library luncheon takes place at the end of each month they also plan the library arts caf in various activities throughout the year the library advisory council is a group of students who are interested in supporting and promoting the library's resources we usually meet once every few weeks and we kind of discuss what we want to see in the library programs that we want to do if you are looking to sign up for the library advisory council you can always see miss myers or one of the library assistance for more information this has been sam morrow reporting live for headlines from peter's township high school if you are interested in joining the library groups there is also a book club that meets monthly the called the first book that is being discussed as every day by david love in full you can always see librarians miss myers and this fetcher for details with a busy school this students find it difficult to find time to work on projects the new collaboration room the library has been created to help students get together and work on projects during school the chairs to give students a quiet place to study or work with others during the school day we have found that students really want an area where they can work together but also speak to each other if they're working on a lab or putting together a presentation or something like that and a lot of times we have classes in the library doesn't work for them to sit there make noise to talk to each other and so we thought the collaboration room would be a great space for them to use for that for headlines students are injured to sign up the new collaboration room and work together the high school offers many different media courses the introductory course at the high school is called media one for more information on this course we go to brady cochran one students begin learning the basics of photography and video students also explore journalism and your book units really experiment with writing and leo designs media one is a general instruction class that models of self after a communications one on one college course putting to you talking upon completion of media one students can continue their studies and communications in the broadcast track photography track in journalism or in yearbook thank you for joining us i'm jessica fournier and i'm