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On March 7 the Prostart class competed in a statewide cooking competition at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. Teams of four attempted to cook a three-course meal in one hour with limited space and no kitchen appliances. Park City took fifth in a highly competitive field of 30 schools.

Park City’s team of four Prostart students was comprised of Beth McIntire, Arthur Whiting, Alex Hall, and Juan Perez. They were selected from a competition the class held earlier in the year.

Chef Joey Pesner from the Zermatt Resort mentored the students and facilitated their practices.

Key Club began its annual March of Dimes project yesterday, Tuesday March 15th. Jugs are set up in the lunch room where students and faculty will be able to donate money throughout the month of March. The collected funds will be given to the March of Dimes organization, which helps support babies born prematurely, with birth defects, and sicknesses.

“[The national] Key Club specifies March of Dimes as one of their three core activities,” said Key Club Advisor and Scholarship Counselor Nancy Michalko, “so clubs across the country are participating in this fundraiser.”

The state math competition will be held on March 14 at Utah State University. Utah students in grades 7 – 12 will compete by taking a test that includes concepts from algebra and statistics.

The competition is held at a Utah college or university each year on Pi day, which derives its name from 3.14, the value of the mathematical constant Pi. The University of Utah, Utah Valley University, and Weber State University have hosted past competitions.

“This is the first time we’ve tested at Utah State,” said College Algebra and trigonometry teacher Donna Hall.

Students of all ages gathered at Park City High School on Tuesday for the district science fair. Ninth graders from Treasure Mountain presented their projects during the morning session from 9 to 11 AM. Elementary students from Trailside, Parley’s, Jeremy Ranch, and McPolin presented their projects in the afternoon from noon until about 2:30 PM.

All ninth grade Honors Biology students were required to participate in the science fair as a graded project. Many students felt that making the science fair a requirement made the process “stressful” and “overblown.”