Boys and girls in grades 9-12 are invited to Pitt Society of Women Engineers’ (SWE) Virtual SWEtastic STEM Challenge Program. This program will consist of three sessions and will take place on Saturdays, March 6, 2021 to March 27, 2021 from 10:00AM-12:00PM through Zoom. This program is a STEM poster challenge for high school students. This program is aimed to give students the opportunity to improve their creativity, problem solving and critical thinking skills in a fun and challenging way! Students will choose 1 of 3 challenges to tackle, solve and create a digital poster of their solution, individually or with a partner. During the three sessions, students will have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for their solution, learn more about engineering at Pitt through presentations given by Pitt Engineering alumni, First Year Engineering academic advisor and through a panel discussion with Pitt SWE members, and present their solutions to the other teams and a panel of judges! To help students in tackling their chosen challenge, all of the teams will be assigned a college mentor to help them ideate and brainstorm solutions during the sessions. Additionally, prizes will be given for the best posters! To learn more and register for this program, please visit the Eventbrite at HERE For questions or concerns, please contact pittswe.outreach@gmail.com.

The Fort Cherry HS School Counselors and Principal met with traditional, cyber, and temporary cyber students today to discuss adaptations to the Fort Cherry HS Career Pathways Program requirements and scheduling. Please click on the information you wish to access: Career Pathways PowerPoint Presentation, Scheduling Interest Survey, Interest Inventory. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Tremblay, Sr High School Counselor, mtremblay@fortcherry.org.

The Senior Class of 2021 is selling SARRIS CANDY ONLINE for Valentine's Day and Easter between now and March 29th. Go to www.sarriscandiesfundraising.com. Click ONLINE ORDERING, PRODUCTS, HOLIDAY ITEMS, CHRISTMAS. You will then be prompted to enter our GROUP ID # 10-0488.  Add the items to your cart, pay with a credit card, and YOUR ITEMS WILL BE SHIPPED DIRECTLY TO YOU! Shipping is a $5 flat rate. Thanks for your support! Click HERE for the sales flyer. Click HERE for the ordering instructions. For more information, please contact Ms. Cole, jcole@fortcherry.org.

The 2020-21 Fort Cherry Yearbook is now on sale. You can order yours by clicking HERE. You can purchase a yearbook for your child electronically, paying by PayPal or by credit card. You can even customize your yearbook with several options this year!  Prices start at $65.00 + tax. No extra yearbooks will be ordered. Get yours today! For more information, contact Mrs. Hess, thess@fortcherry.org.

Over the past several months, we all have experienced a disruption to our sense of security, structure, and routine as school physically closed and transitioned to virtual learning environments because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these uncertain times, our communities also have been impacted by racial and social unrest that has added an additional layer of stress to the overall situation that school communities are attempting to navigate. This added stress is relates to concern on how to balance being a parent or caregiver with helping further the education of their children, how to have difficult conversations about these uncertain times, and how address emotions in their children while they are also experiencing their own strong emotions. The PA Department of Education has posted resources to assist parents navigate these issues -- addressing emotions, moving forward with education for their children, and providing resources and ideas to promote a family balance while education is occurring in the home. Click HERE to access these resources.

If you would like to purchase Fort Cherry apparel to support the program, please click the fundraiser link HERE to access the website.

The Strength & Conditioning Club has an apparel fundraiser that will be ongoing. To order apparel, please click HERE. Funds will be used to purchase new equipment for the weight room. 

The FCHS Home-2-School Committee provides parents, students, teachers, community members, and staff the opportunity to collaborate with the purpose of providing resources and opportunities to students. If you are interested in becoming a member, please click HERE for the registration form. To see the PowerPoint from our General Membership Meeting, please click HERE. For more information, please contact the school.

Safe2Say Something is a program that allows you to submit secure and anonymous safety concerns to help identify and intervene with at-risk individuals BEFORE they hurt themselves or others. You can do this by reporting observed threats, behaviors, actions, and harassment. You can report concerns three (3) ways:

Website - www.saysomething.net

App - “Say Something” – Free for iPhone & Android

Phone - Call the hotline – 1-844-723-2729