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Water Mission International: Walk For Water 2022

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The Walk for Water is back in person this year, and PCA students, with 11th grade class advisor Dr. Roger Weaver, heading the team, were there to add to the steps! 

Walk For Water is a yearly fundraiser that supports the Christian nonprofit Water Mission that is working to solve the global water crisis which currently affects 2.2 billion people. To date, 7 million people have been served by Water Mission and more recently Water Mission has sent its Disaster Response Crew to help relieve the crisis on Ukraine’s borders. 

During the Walk for Water, participants, including eleventh and fifth grade students from PCA, walked approximately 1.5 miles to the midway point with an empty bucket. There, they filled their bucket with dirty water and carried it another 1.5 miles to the end of the Walk. 

“It was a beautiful day, for a great cause,” said eleventh grade advisor, Roger Weaver. “It was good to see so many people involved in helping other people.”

Overall, approximately 4,000 people took action to help end the global water crisis and together raised over $400,000!

 

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Forecast Is In: Sovine Has Taken PCA 2nd Graders By Storm!

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This past week the second grade class welcomed Channel 5 Meteorologist, Joey Sovine, to campus! Sovine came in to talk to these very eager second graders about, what else? The weather!

"He explained how weather is measured (even handed out some cool weather tools!), taught about extreme weather and most importantly hurricanes and how to stay safe from them in Charleston", said 2nd grade teacher Jessica Hanzsche. "He taught a lot about satellites and how they gather weather information from space! He passed around a tool that helps determine water temperature, humidity and gives cloud information. He showed a video around the station which showed the green screen and how the weather show is put on each morning, afternoon and night.”

The students agreed that learning about the weather was a “cool” experience. “My favorite part was that he asked hard questions,” said second grader Pace Johnson. “Like ‘What does a rain gauge do and where do you put it?’ Then he showed us an example!”

Sage Graybill agreed. “I liked when he talked about how cold it was and about tornados and hurricanes!” 

Who knows, maybe Meteorology is in the forecast for one of these student's future.

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