By V. Escorza-62 – CCB Editor

Editor’s Note: PAWS TIME is an ongoing series of Conwell students and alumni who want to pause for a moment and reflect on their time at Conwell Middle Magnet School

• One of the things I like about Conwell Middle Magnet School is the dedication that students have and how teachers keep pushing you until your limits.
  
  
• The Second thing I like about Conwell is that After School All-Stars helps you with finding things that you actually like and love to do. 

• The Third thing I like about Conwell is how the teachers try so hard to make you do your greatest and do your best. 
  
  
• The fourth thing I like about Conwell is the teachers really don’t let you give up  and they don’t want you to fail and keep pushing you until you start to get the work.

Editor’s Note: Do you have a list of Likes and Loves for Conwell? Send your ideas to the CCB Google Classroom by clicking on: https://classroom.google.com/c/NTQ2NDgwODE3NTI4?cjc=c7zfnas

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By A. Schemes-72 CCB Reporter

Photos courtesy of Ms. Williams-NJHS Conwell Chapter Advisor, Conwell SBTL

National Junior Honors Society (NJHS) is an international student organization. 

Eligible NJHS students had to have a GPA of 3.5 or higher to get the invite. Then they have to fill out a form of all the clubs, jobs, and leadership things they have done to get accepted. 

Once you are accepted you can choose whether you want to be in the ceremony or not. This year nine students got into NJHS. But there are 14 students total in NJHS. Only one of the 14 students were absent from the ceremony that occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 10:15a.m. The NJHS ceremony took place in room 202.

Due to Covid, it was live on Zoom with the whole school watching. As well as parents who joined the Zoom. 

The ceremony was about celebrating the students who got into one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a middle school student. The NJHS is not just about what grade you get, it is about leadership, service, character, citizenship, and so much more. 

Here is a quote from the one and only Ms.Williams, Conwell’s School Based Teacher Leader, who spoke on her role in NJHS and what it means to Conwell! 

“I am an NJHS Adviser for the Conwell Chapter,” Ms. Williams said. “At Conwell, NJHS is an opportunity to be a part of a nationally recognized organization that promotes and celebrates scholarship, leadership, service, citizenship, and character.” 

NJHS is important to Conwell because it really shows that hard work pays off. It makes students feel like all the work done is appreciated.

All the students who are in NJHS worked super hard to get good grades. NJHS is not all about grades. You have to be a leader. You have to have good citizenship. Last but not least you have to be kind and care for others. 

A. Irizarry of section 81 explained what it means for her to be in NJHS. 

“I feel honored that they chose me and it brings up my courage about all the wonderful things i could do,” she said. “It motivates me to focus on school.”

“I feel honored that they chose me and it brings up my courage about all the wonderful things I could do. It motivates me to focus on school.”

-A. AMARILIZ – NJHS INDUCTEE OF SECTION 81

As Amariliz said, all students can tell that getting praise for the work you do will encourage you to not give up on yourself.

Editor’s Note – A. Schemes is one of the 14 NJHS inductees at the 2022 NJHS ceremony of Conwell.

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By A. Snowden-62-CCB Reporter

Have you ever heard of a map of the world made out of an orange?

Maybe you haven’t, but Mr. Verdi’s seventh grade Social Studies class, in September, decided it would be a good idea to make it.

J. Gonzalez-72 said that he had to learn about map distortion before his class could make this wacky project. According to Gonzalez, Map Distortion is the action of being distorted/pulled.

He said that this project taught the class that the globe and distortion are different by showing that distortion is on a flat map and a round globe.

The creative person that came up with this idea is none other than Mr. Verdi himself, Gonzalez said.

If this class didn’t learn about distortion, they wouldn’t understand how to MAKE distortion on a map.

J. Gonzalez said, “This was one of the best projects I have done so far!” 

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by V. Escorza,62 and Y.Hiraldo-61

Photos and collage CCB photographers . A . Vega-81 and A . Vale-Valez-62

Conwell students went on an all-day science zoo field trip for their school on Sept. 30, 2022.  

S. Montanez – section 62 talked to these reporters, while at the zoo. She said she liked the snakes and the alligators and the gecko in the Reptile House. 

“I liked the reptiles because their skin is scaly,”  S. Montanez said.

The Reptile House had a door with leaves all around it. Then when you go inside the door, it was a place with a lot of reptiles.

There were many other animals to see and smell, as well.

“I think it’s interesting because the things I smelled were different,” L. Vaught-82, said.  “My favorite animal was the animals that were in the water like the penguins and polar bears” 

However, this trip was not just about seeing animals.

“It’s not just about the Zoo,” Principal Green said before the trip, “It’s about science and learning different species.”

Editor’s note: Be on the look out for our upcoming Zoo Trip Photo Gallery and Videos!

This article was posted by Y. Hiraldo-62-CCB Editor and V. Escorza-62-CCB Reporter.

Conwell students earn first-place spots at the 2022 Penn Relays

by T. Williams-62, CCB Sports Reporter

Photos from the early spring practice of the Conwell Middle Magnet School’s Penn Relays team. Students practiced hard to earn first-place spots at the Penn Relays on April 24. In the images: Students can be seen practicing in the school parking lot. Coach Adams is featured in this gallery, as well.- Photos by A. Vega- 71, CCB Photographer

Conwell Middle Magnet school students in seventh and eighth grades had a chance to be in the Penn relays when the school’s Health and Physical Education teacher, coach Adams, had a tryout for the Penn Relays in March. By the time the Penn Relays happened, two of Conwell’s students ran to first place in the 100-meter relay competitions

One of the students who raced and won in the 100-meter relay at the Penn relays, named E. Mills of section 83, said this about the Penn Relays, “It felt really great to win and it showed me that hard work really pays off”.

The students that did well in the tryout got on the team and got to practice for the Penn Relays with Coach Adams, both inside and outside the school building. 

“The eighth and seventh grade students practiced on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays,” Coach Adams said. “They practiced on the school stairs and the yard”.

The top seventh and eighth grade male participants for the Penn Relay tryouts were E. Mills, M. Levister II, N. Irizarry, A. Castillo-Ortiz, and N. Young-Bullock. The top 7th and 8th grade female participants were A. Capps, O. Liz Sanchez, D. Hargrove, N. Lewis, and S. Ortiz. Most students raced in the Large School Boys and Girls Middle Grades 4x100meter relay.

The Penn Relays is a track and field competition from 4th grade to college, according to Coach Adams. Also the Penn Relays is the oldest track and field competition in the United States starting on April 21,1895. The Penn relays always start on the last Friday of April.

Coach Adams said the Penn Relays are located at the Franklin Field Stadium on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

The people who got to go were the eighth, seventh and sixth grade runners. And a couple of excellent students who got nominated from Conwell. Everyone who got to go went to the Penn relays on April 24, on a Friday.

The football stadium had a bunch of people with the tracks on the outside of the football field .The event consisted of 8th and 7th graders doing the track race and 6th graders racing on a football field in the center of the track.

“It was scary and then it was fun,” N. Lewis of section 71, who won the girls 100 meter relay, said. 

By. S.Ortiz 73, CCB Contributor

Editor’s Note: I think that this article is very remarkable, because it’s telling people how you shouldn’t mess with people’s hard word. The following was presented on a previous morning meeting.

Respecting public art is important because it takes a lot of time, skill and patience from the artist to create it.  People use art as a way to express themselves.  If you disrespect it by vandalizing it then you are not being kind to the person who created it. Also, other people won’t have the chance to enjoy the artwork. Public art adds great value to the culture and atmosphere of a community.  There are many murals, statues and sculptures all around Philadelphia.

Public art creates community pride and a sense of belonging.  It enhances the quality of life for its residents and visitors. It’s important to many people for many reasons. From this I can conclude that respecting public art is important because artists take time to create meaningful work for their communities to enjoy.  We should appreciate their talent,  time, and effort.

Edited by N. Champion – CCB Staff Editor

by R. Rowan – 62, CCB Staff

Editor’s Note: The following report was originally scheduled to air live on the weekly At Conwell We Are On morning show on 4/29/22, and an abridged and edited version has been printed here.

Hello Conwell! 

This is R. Rowan of section 62 reporting for ACWAO. This Tuesday on May 3rd we had taken the day off, as it was in recognition of Eid al-Fitr.

Dr. Hite, School District of Philadelphia’s superintendent, said in a district-wide message that “this is religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan.”

As further explained on History.com, the website says:

“Ramadan is a holy month of fasting, introspection and prayer for Muslims, the followers of Islam. Each day during Ramadan, Muslims do not eat or drink from dawn to sunset. They are also supposed to avoid impure thoughts and bad behavior.”

According to History.com, the website says that “Muslims break their daily fasts by sharing meals with family and friends, and the end of Ramadan is celebrated with a three-day festival known as Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays.”

This year, Ramadan began at sunset on Saturday, April 2, and ends on the evening of Monday, May 2. Thank you and this has been R. Rowan reporting for ACWAO.

edited by Mr. Dungan, CCB Co-advisor

By N. Champion – CCB editor

Peter Stern, 81, a Holocaust survivor, gave the Conwell Middle Magnet School community a presentation on what happened durning the Holocaust. Throughout the assembly, which took place at 9 a.m. on April 6, 2022 on Zoom, Stern painted a very tragic picture of what he and his family went through.

‘’Why is it that people go through stuff I experienced?” Stern said. 

According to Stern’s presentation and his online biography. Stern was born in Nuremberg, Germany in March 1936, he had a younger brother named Sam. His father’s name was Artur and he was a mechanic. In 1941 Stern and his family were deported to Germany to a camp in Latvia, which was surrounded by guards and traps. 

 Stern was only 6 years old, and he said he did not know what was going on. On the campsite, in the building, he said there were many Jewish people in one house. He said the Nazis tricked them into going into camps to kill off the Jewish people.The Nazis took away his rights and also his family rights. They did it because Jewish people were way different from them.

D. Llanos, in section 62, had some questions to ask Mr. Stern about the Holocaust, during the question and answer part of the Zoom presentation. 

“Why did so many people go along with his plans?” said D. Llanos. 

To answer that question Stern revealed a sad truth from his experience.

“The Nazis believed that the Germans were very easily tricked into agreeing with their plan,” Stern said.

Mr. Posan, a 6th grade math teacher at Conwell Middle Magnet School, who helped organize the presentation, said some encouraging words to Peter Stern.

“Because, we shouldn’t forget the past, knowing our past helps us know where we came from,” said Mr. Posnan.