The Herald student news for Aug. 8
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Shady Side Academy rising junior Karen Linares Mendoza has been named as a student member of the board of the Beckwith Institute, a health care group dedicated to improving patient care. Mendoza will serve a two-year term and joins rising senior Nora Navid on the board for 2020-21.
Each year, two SSA Senior School students have seats on the Beckwith Institute board alongside SSA President Bart Griffith.
Mendoza’s passion in medicine comes from her value of person-to-person attention and interaction. She is involved in the Service Learning Club at SSA and has participated in several volunteer opportunities.
Most recently, she organized and sewed masks that were donated in light of the mask shortage during the covid-19 pandemic. Last winter, she researched and produced an experiment that would challenge the question: How mental is physical pain? Her results provided many points of discussion that she hopes to continue to analyze as a leader of the Pre-Med Club in coming years.
She enjoys running in cross country and track. She is also a member of the Jazz Band.
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Fairview Elementary School in the Fox Chapel Area School District is seeking a community member and a parent to serve on the school’s site-based management team, each for a two-year term, starting Sept. 1.
The team helps make decisions concerning the operations of the school. It meets monthly. The community representative must live in the Fairview attendance area and have no children attending any district schools.
The parent representative must have at least one child attending Fairview Elementary for both years of his/her tenure.
A letter of interest must be postmarked by Aug. 14. Applicants will be selected using a lottery system.
Letters should be addressed to Fairview Elementary School Principal Stephen Edwards at Fairview Elementary School, 738 Dorseyville, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 or emailed to stephen_edwards@fcasd.edu.