March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mary Engle Pennington. While working at USDA, she pioneered research on sanitary methods of processing, storing, and shipping food. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Rachel Carson. She was a marine biologist and environmentalist who's work warned of the dangers of pesticides. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Martha Coston. She developed flares that were used by the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Virginia Apgar. She invented the standardized assessment system for evaluating a newborn's health, called the Apgar score. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
2nd graders at SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY have been singing leprechaun songs and making leprechaun puppets in preparation for St. Patrick's Day. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Katherine Johnson. She calculated the flight path for the first American in space and checked critical flight path calculations for Apollo 13. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
Students may dress in green tomorrow, for St. Patrick's Day.
Reminder, 3rd-5th Grade students will be finishing up their NWEA Map Growth assessments tomorrow.
Registration is open for the 2022-2023 school year! If you're NEW to PCSSD for kindergarten - 12th grade, you can register online. We have a new registration portal that makes the process much easier for families. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mollie Orshanzky. She was a statistician who pioneered the way the U.S. Government defines poverty. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
3rd-5th grade students will begin taking the MAP Growth Test in the morning. Students need to be on time for school with their charged Chromebook.
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Gerty Cori. She was the first American woman to win a Nobel prize in science in 1947 when she co-won for work on glycogen metabolism. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mae Jemison. In 1992, she was the first African American woman in space. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Ada Lovelace. She is considered the founder of scientific computing and the first computer programmer. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Lillian Gilbreth. She was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The book Cheaper by the Dozen chronicled her life. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Jane Goodall. She is seen as the world's expert on chimpanzees and spent 60 years studying the social and family interactions of chimpanzees. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Margaret Collins. She was an entomologist and zoologist and co-discovered the neotermes luykxi species of termites. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Barbara McClintock. She won the Nobel prize in 1983 for her physiology work discovering a gene's ability to change position on the chromosome. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
Don't forget that Picture Day is tomorrow, March 8th. If you are purchasing a group picture, please go to mylifetouch.com and use Picture Day ID: EVT3Z2SPT
If you are purchasing individual pictures, please use Picture Day ID: EVTHWKNCP
Picture Day is March 8th. Please pay online by going to my.lifetouch.com and using the Picture Day ID: EVTHWKNCP. Only students that are taking Spring Pictures can be dressed in other attire. Attire must be school appropriate.
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Virginia Holsinger. She impacted public health by developing a shelf-stable milk substitute mix to send internationally by donation programs. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
