STUDENTS
Butler Catholic School students did very well at the recent Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science State Competition at Penn State University.
The PJAS is a statewide organization designed to stimulate and promote interest in science among its members through the development of research projects and investigations.
Students who received a first award at the state competition included: eighth-graders Nicholas Benec, Kathryn Ravasio and Lacy Zagurskie, and seventh-graders Bridget Preston and Aaron Short.
Second awards went to: eighth-graders Daniel Orsborn, Grace Foehringer and Stella Swanson, and seventh-grader Joshua Kelly.
Shaylee Walls, an eighth-grader who received a second award at the regional competition, was a technician.
Ashlee Shields, a crew member at the McDonald’s restaurant located at 680 Butler Crossing, was recently awarded a $2,500 McDonald’s National Employee Scholarship Award.
Meghan Sweeney, the restaurant’s owner/operator, matched that scholarship and also awarded Shields her company’s local $2,500 scholarship. Altogether the recent graduate of Butler Senior High School received $7,500 in scholarship dollars.
Mindy Vivio, a Bruin native and graduate of the Karns City High School, will work as a public safety aide this summer for the Ocean City, Md., police department.
Vivio is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in forensic science at Pittsburgh’s Point Park University, where she also minors in biological sciences and chemistry.
She hopes to work on death investigations after her graduation from Point Park in 2019.
She is currently living in Ocean City as she works with the city’s police department.
