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Peoria High Student
Earns Gold Medal in Math
Peoria High freshman Alicen Adolf captured the gold medal during
a competition held on Mathematics Day at ASU’s New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Throughout the day, young women
interacted with mathemacians, engineers and professors from STEM
fields.
Vistancia Reads Their Way to the Top in
Peoria Firefighter’s Reading Challenge
T h i r d - g r a d e r s i n
Vistancia, Cotton Boll
and Santa Fe elementary
schools competed in the
annual Peoria Fireighter’s
Charities “Fill the Boot
with Reading” challenge:
to read 50 books in two
months.
T h r o u g h o u t t h e
challenge, ire crews
visited the three schools to
talk about the importance
of reading, and to read to
each third-grade class.
More than 250 students
completed the challenge
reading a grand total of
27,681 books.
The classroom at each
school that read the most
books received the “Boot
Trophy” which they can
display in their classroom
until next year.
The reading challenge
program began in 2008
with a two-fold goal: to
encourage reading and for
the ireighters to provide
positive role models to
youth.
High school students
enrolled in the district’s Fire
Science program assisted
with the kick-off breakfast in
November, and the awards
ceremony and barbecue
luncheon in February.
Third-graders in Nicole Gonzalez’s class at Vistancia Elemementary read an average of 134 books during the
Peoria Firefighters two-month reading challenge.
MARCH 2016 PULSE | PG 4