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Chick-fil-A Leader Academy Helps East Cooper Community Outreach!

This year 10 students participating in Chick-fil-A Leader Academy completed a community-minded project as a capstone to their year-long leadership curriculum. The students chose to team up with ECCO and collect food for East Cooper Community Outreach. Students organized a food drive and collected canned food and toiletries that will go to serve the Charleston community.

 "Our PCA family once again showed their generosity in how much they gave. We teach Servant Leadership with the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy. Part of what it means to be a servant leader is meeting the needs of others, especially those who are less fortunate than us. The Chick-fil-A Leader Academy students out-performed themselves with the service projects we did this year.," said Charles Wulff, co-advisor of the student leadership group.  

Through Chick-fil-A Leader Academy, students are expected to learn leadership skills and apply them throughout the year to go out into the community and make an "Impact through Action". In addition to this year-end Impact Project, Leader Academy members also took part in the "Big Thank You" project in the Fall where students went to the local firehouse and handed out thank you cards made by the students as well as brought along treats. They also paired up with Lowcountry Orphan Relief for a "Do Good December" Project.

 These amazing students have now graduated from Leader Academy, and up to 30 PCA high school students have the opportunity to participate next year. To learn more about the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy and to apply for the 2021-2022 school year, click the Learn More button below.

Middle Schoolers Design Simple Machines!

The 8th grade Honors Physical Science students have been busy this week designing and constructing a series of simple machines. 

Their project aims to have their machine provide an overall function related to the movement of an object.  

“This project focuses on creativity, effort, neatness, design, construction, and application of scientific knowledge,” said science teacher Tom Warburton, “it also focuses on student-driven learning of the unit content”.

 Students assembled into teams, working together to accomplish the interactive assignment allowing for creativity as well as peer interaction.

 When asked what they learned through this project that they didn’t know before, the students had a lot to say.

 “We have learned how pulleys work,” said Julia Herd. While Harris Wilson said, “We learned that an inclined plane can act as a slide.” 

They also learned that as a team, they can create a simple machine that works when their knowledge is put together. “Our machine", said Ethan Gawryluk, “is built so that the marble will go into the hole, drop down, follow the scope, hit dominos, and then pop a balloon with a screw!” 

Students not only learned new terms and applications through this project, they were also able to put their newfound knowledge into action.