By SUSAN RUMBLE

Special to The Press

Parkland School Board directors began their May meeting with recognition of Anthony Shave as Pennsylvania’s Girls Wrestling Coach of the Year.

“We had a tremendous inaugural season,” High school Principal Nathan Davidson told the board.

Shave guided the high school team to league, district and regional championships.

He also coached the junior high girls wrestling team which won the district title.

The board also commended two students who won honors at the Pennsylvania School Press Association state competition at Penn State.

Mehar Brar was awarded second place for literary magazine art, and Elsa Hoderewski and Sarah George, won first in the state for the podcast, “The Blarel.”

Destiny Beck is the teacher advisor.

Board members then turned to Parkland students who were successful in the governor’s STEM competition.

Seventy-five high schools participated, and Parkland took first place in Division I for returning teams.

The competition is broken down into the categories survivability, medical and sustainability.

The team, comprised of Maelina Hontz, Blayne Yocum and Evan New-hard, took first place in survivability.

Students had to use universal design to solve a problem that faces the lives of Pennsylvanians.

The team’s project, the SKEEP AWAY, was a ski or snowboard helmet with coded ultrasonic sensors to alert the wearer of other individuals on the course.

The helmet would benefit a deaf person who could feel vibration motors embedded in it.

David Wacker is the teacher advisor.

As this was the last meeting for the school term, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Michelle Minotti recognized senior Grant Pinsley, student representative to the board.

Involved in numerous activities at Parkland while earning a 4.4 grade-point average, Pinsley is planning to enter college to prepare for a career in Constitutional Law.