on today's episode of headlines take a look at our high schools technology education department learn how kids reduce stress about taking the s a t s and find out when you and your family can attend the holiday concert in our community welcome to have months i'm very school sick and i'm called similar in the technology education department at p t a h s offers a variety of courses some computer based and others that have a hands on experience allowed students to construct and build a variety of projects do the class of us students to get hands on experience with robots and churches them into the stem field students working groups to design and build robots that can perform certain tasks and overcome certain obstacles not only does it give the students fans own experience gives them practice with critical thinking and problem solving while there are a lot of fun days in this class you do have to actually put in some effort to build these robots because you do have to a programming robots and writing code does not interest you another course offered in the tech department as competitive tech and this course students construct projects and compete against one another in doing competitive tech students will be able to apply their knowledge of technology math and science to compete with other students throughout the school region and state and problem solving activities the better sec is a class that would be ideal for any problem solving and technology in this unit kids will be building a car that is designed with an egg like a driver in the car the goal is for the sake to have little to no damage from crashing the car reporting life from a competitive at the end of the year students work on a rocketry engineering project where they calculate lift time and acceleration ensure to stand as a class offered to students who are interested in things such as creating designing and engineering is very explainers application of what you learn in other classes such as science class and how can we apply that to really by the actual career studies problem solving and creativity  lead coming to you from the p t a just workshop this year the tech a department is piloting a new course that will be taught in collaboration with upper st claire school district the course is designed to problem solve real world universal problems outside of all that are classes she teaches or mccutcheon one of our high school teachers also sponsors the our club here recently christopher to tell us more about it at peter's township a school our club is offered as an outlet for students to express their creativity students can use any medium of their liking projects are in demand federally based students could choose to do ceramics they can choose to do to projects they can make a painting they can do drawings gathers once a week on mondays to work on their projects of choice journalism broadcasting in your book your book is a class offered at the high school your books are ordered through dawsons at the beginning of each school year senior ads in portraits are also due at the beginning of each year in the class students is make the voters basically just make sure that the whole entire year book is complete and everyone has their own job within your book that we all do and my job is just to make sure they do their job students work diligently throughout the year to make sure the yearbook is better than the year before this is going to be with you again reporting live from geo one this year's theme is up up and away it your books cost seventy five dollars but if you order before december seventh your c v free subscription the smoke signals so should expect there your books by the end of may coming up after the break learn what p t is just writing what has to offer and come backstage to asks for your help and replanting our national forests so they'll be there for us for future generations and see what we're doing see how you can help founded in one thousand and seventy seven the american humane association has been dedicated to the idea that all animals including those raised in our farms and ranches humane treatment today animals on nearly eight thousand farms enjoy a better quality of life because of the medical science based engines established by the american humane association live better  humane choose merican humane certified products when you're finished with your food or beverage cartons toss it in the recycling because every card is recycled and can be turned into useful paper put your card in the bin with your other recyclables and let them start  when the contents are gone let the card live on recycle your car every day periods two three five eight and nine come down receive feedback and pointers for essays or college applications today students approach their junior and senior year the pressure of standardized tests also approach students begin to practice for t s is the most stressful thing for teens today college board has teamed up with khan academy to provide free practice to help students get prepared for the s a t s their goal is to decrease stress and help build confidence to put this plan of action they've created the distress contest for the chance to win valuable prizes since i'm currently in my dream year yes it's been difficult trying to manage time studying for that eighty's in doing my schoolwork but at the end they had to put time into studying for  just like practicing for us four or practicing instrument students who are eligible for entering our legal u s residents who are attending high school and plan on attending college in the future don't miss out on this opportunity when great prizes while reducing the stress level in your eighty five attended the pennsylvania state that's been conference and showcase their own production of the play daddy's girl this play was originally performed by the troops in the spring season of the twenty sixteen school year later this year the shoe will be performing a play called the outsiders and the popular other girls claim to be daughter oh boy maybe five decided to take daddy's girl which is a comedy we thought that it had really great characters and also we thought that it would be a very good message to the people at conference as well as something that younger people would get into the troop will be performing at the end of november wish them good luck and this is been julip palmer reporting live from the peters township theater come and support the troops by setting the play musical and also their variety show coffeehouse this year coffey else will be the seventh through the ninth of december at seven pm the theme is being to me up to scotty making the broadway student a p t h s help to best buddies club plan the events being held this year for its members let's go to for a better insight on how this club functions best buddies allow students of peters to interact with other students who have intellectual or developmental disabilities partners in peace and other events take place every year to make the club a success best buddies it's an international organization that advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and it was started by anthony kennedy shriver in one thousand nine hundred ninety some of the events at best but he says this is i mean reporting live outside during two forty eight if any students are interested in best buddies or partners in peace peter sonship offers eight partners in course every semester is open to anyone to sign up this year the we always have to step with our right foot onto the floor when we get to national and actually any local competition and then when we travel we have to go with the step on the bus with our right but and to the right but we always have to start off on the right foot the varsity dance team of two thousand and thirteen was a national champions of the j v dance team of twenty six he was national champions the team of twenty seven team is hoping to keep that going and get the white jacket cared about and i'd be over thinking about what happened in iraq three months ago they're almost like a stranger when you come back everything's different you're kind of discombobulated people were asking me how it was but i got the sounds they couldn't relate to what i had been through so i just stopped talking about it it made a tremendous difference and known life when i chose to get help in hindsight it probably saved my life save my marriage i personally believe that i'm also a better soldier sometimes when you come home it can seem negative distressing concerning you can all be out soon will be got through you're not going to be the same person afterwards that you were before you deployed and don't try to be accept who you are now figure out how to move forward and make that pos together we can change the news find out how safe kids dot org welcome back to have minds are pure such a poison hockey team is ranked number one in the pennsylvania interest classic hockey league also know yeah a lot of fun this year there are a lot of good players in the senior class and good leaders and they're doing a good job well makes is a team we just have a lot harder for each other you know we want to work hard for each other you know abundance of resources and comfortable work area for sixty years the peters township public library has offered the community many valuable resources and one can sign up for the library's wagon card to check out books and utilize different aspects offered each day you can find middle and high school students studying receiving tutoring in a quiet place with computers three d printers and books on any subject students are destined to succeed one thing i really enjoy about coming to the library is that it offers a quiet place to study with so many different resources for any subject and even s a t s and which are a prominent aspect of school and it also has a cafe rican go and get a drink and just all kinds of different things to really enjoy yourself while you're here the children section in the library offers computer games movies and a special kids room with gaming systems and books especially catered to them beat the cold and come out to p t h s this december to support countless young high school musicians as they perform for their winter concerts on four separate nights you'll have the opportunity to hear the jazz ban audience members get a chance to see soloists they get to see smaller groups to get to see a large group they get to see improvisation and i could see marches holiday music so there's a wide variety of  styles and students getting to perform these students have been putting in hours of practice and perfection to prepare these concerts for their audience you can visit p t music mysteries dot com online for a complete list of when you can see these musicians in action reporting from peter's township high school this is sam the next public concert will be performed by the p t h s when symphony and concert band on summer eleventh at the high school here at peter's seniors a few juniors have the privilege of driving to school even though it's very helpful for many students the parking lot can become a dangerous place in the afternoon so safe driving in the fall the rules are very important the peters township high school student parking lot is a very chaotic place to be before and after school when entering and exiting you should use a precaution not only are there other  get a passing school i think it's great that they allow us to do all this but if i could give my two cents i would suggest that we employ the zipper method which is where one car changes every time so letting each and every person go out as they go an important part of the zipper method is using turn signals in communicating with other drive also when having multiple people in the car it's important to keep the music low pay attention to the road and use them as an extra set of eyes this is been then the vine reporting from the peters township high school following the displayed signs moving with the flow of traffic and obeying traffic guard is recommended in the high school lot cancer takes a lot of hundreds of thousands of men each year but you can be the difference and help men's cancer by joining the most ember foundation to interact introduced a new challenge appears talk to the high school in order to raise money for middle cancer and mental health awareness the challenge includes teachers participating in no shave november called the lunch periods judges will select the winning teacher by full spirit a stash a winning ticket can win prizes such as an autograph signed pocs an autograph all proceeds benefit the most foundation so get out and buy a ticket this is from peter such a prize one hundred thirty four dollars this year mr was not one the most stylish beard mr forrest beard and mr lawrence had the best moustache a little facial hair goes a long way to go to the link on the screen for more information on ways to get involved better to say is a day for honoring the people who have risked their lives to keep our country safe let's go to peyton jenkins to learn more about the special day veterans day is an official s public holiday observed every november eleventh it is celebrated in honor of people who have served in the united states armed forces i am from out of being a veteran and i am anti war and i believe that that is calm among those of us that saw contact that we lost friends we question whether that loss was necessary  every veteran say i think i know i revisit that and to come there should be used as leverage to ensure that we minimize the number of people who are asked to expose themselves and up paying the ultimate sacrifice this is being jenkins reporting live for peter high school thank you to all those who have served in the armed forces we appreciate your service this isn't all for the addition of headlines 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