West Geauga begins 2025-26 school year registration for kindergarten and new students on Feb. 20...
Kindergarten Registration
West Geauga begins 2025-26 school year registration for kindergarten and new students on Feb. 20. Registration is completed online. Visit www.westg.org for information.
Global School Play Day
Westwood classrooms had the option to participate in Global School Play Day on Feb. 5. The purpose of the day is to provide students an environment of supervised, unstructured play to be creative, problem-solve and socialize. No electronic devices are allowed.
Classrooms featured amazing fort structures built with boxes and blankets – designed, decorated and enjoyed by the kids – along with board games, crafts, puzzles and trains. One classroom even had a “creation station,” where students created anything using boxes and recyclable materials. Students were free to let their imaginations run wild.
West Geauga STEM Fair
Students at West Geauga middle and high schools participated in the annual STEM Fair (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) sponsored by the West Geauga Kiwanis. The challenge consisted of Junk Box Wars where high school teams were given a box of random materials and a set timeframe to build a mechanism to carry out a specific function. Other activities included individual project research displays, a math competition, and the middle school “How Do I Fare” challenge puzzles.
Winners are:
High School Individual Projects: Robert Vash, first; Myca Mykhaela and Matilda Tumada, second; and Tristan Morgan, third.
Middle School Individual Projects: Michael Yeager, first; Adleigh Vodika, second; Sam Geraci, third. Elementary school winner, Paul Wright.
High School Math Competition: Paul Barras
Middle School Math Competition: Kaz Southard
How Do I Fare?: Charlie Allin and Robert Meyer, first; Lola Franceschini and Savannah Sinkovec, second; and Lincoln Shirey and Kaz Southard, third.
Junk Box Wars: Capri Burch, Gabriella Ohlsen and Isla Yellen, first; Hayden Makuch, Connor Northup and JJ Rubinski, second; Tristan Morgan, Anderson Osolin and Mason Starr, third; and Best Design – Henry Duxbury, Joseph Kreuz and Darren Prince-Wright.
NOETIC Learning Math Contest
The Noetic Learning Math Contest is a national problem-solving competition that tests students’ creative and critical thinking math intellect. Select West Geauga students in grades 3-8 participated in the fall contest, along with over 39,000 high-achieving math students from 40 different states. Grade-level winners Ella Branch, Colm Dugan, Keely Klein, Alexander Boukis, Zachary Gracon, James Davis, Andrew McNamara and Charles Allin were recently recognized at the West Geauga Board of Education meeting.
Ella Branch and James Davis scored in Noetic’s top 10th percentile amongst thousands of their grade-level peers across the nation. It is the contest’s highest achievement. Congratulations to Ella Branch and James Davis on this outstanding accomplishment.
