March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Linda Buck. She co-won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for her work on olfactory receptors. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Gertrude Elion. She won the Nobel prize in 1988 for co-developing leukemia medication & the first immunosuppressant used for organ transplants. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
Registration is open for the 2022-2023 school year! If you're NEW to PCSSD for kindergarten - 12th grade, you can register online. Links to our new portal can be found below. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
English: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23e
Spanish: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23s
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mary Anning. She was a paleontologist and collected fossils from ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, and pterodactyl skeletons. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Alice Ball. She developed an injectable treatment for leprosy. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
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
Students from Sylvan Hills Middle School are participating at EAST Conference 2022. These students brought a variety of projects this year including a 3D printed tool to assist our librarians, a video to help new students acclimate to middle school, and a map to assist with multiple projects in our building. The group presents at 11:45am today (Wednesday). Good luck!
Photo L to R: Kristian Jackson, Lauren Runshe, Dalyn Lawrence, Kamrie Thomas, Erica Hughes, Reece Mills, Nikolai Grishanov, and Daniel Almazan.
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
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
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
English: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23e
Spanish: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23s
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