Math Madness is an online, team-based event that takes place during the Fall in which elementary, middle and high schools from across the country compete in leagues of weekly competition followed by a single elimination bracket tournament. Charles F. Patton has participated in this event for several years under the leadership of Mary Jo Knauer. This year we participated in 5 preliminary rounds and went into the elimination bracket in 1st place.

The team consists of approximately 45 students from grades 6 - 8 along with a 4th grader currently enrolled in math at CFPMS who participate weekly as their schedules allow.  Points are accumulated individually on the top 5 players of each round.  These players have varied throughout the rounds, as Patton Middle School has so many talented students. Our team of students has continued to thrive, winning each of the first 3 bracket rounds.  Our win on Thursday, December 12, 2019 placed us in the final bracket round.  It was a very close match as the opposing team accumulated points at a faster rate, but ended with a score of 39 - Patton was able to score 40 points with 6 minutes to spare. Currently, 3 of the team members are ranked in the top ten:

The final playoff match, for 1st place nationally, will be held the week of December 16th.

We’re pleased to announce that one of our Patton student's artwork has been selected as one of the four winning designs for the 2019 UCF holiday card contest! The district received so many great submissions this year - it was certainly a difficult decision! Congratulations to Ellie O'Donnell and her card design entitled Skating Rink!

The Patton Gardens have once again been awarded the Garden of Distinction in the 2019 Philadelphia Horticultural Society’s Gardening Contest. We were one of the gardens selected from over 400 entries and will receive a sign and certificate to recognize our accomplishment in the area of school gardening. Miss Ballard and Miss Hisler are thrilled that Patton has won this award for the fifth year in a row!

Guess who is on the cover of the May 29th edition of the City Suburban News? It's Patton 7th grader, Emil Wu! She won first place in Junior Piano at the Tri-County 77th Annual Youth Festival and will be performing at the winners' recital on June 9th at 3 PM at Montgomery County Community College's Science Theater. Congrats, Emily!

Josh Vallabhaneni won first place at the Chester County Student Invention Convention on Monday night - and it came with a nice trophy and check! His innovation, Baby Saver - Hot Car Alert Device, took top middle school honors at the event held at the CCIU as part of the Leadership Transformed event. Way to go, Josh! You made us #PattonProud!!

This morning we had a mini assembly with C Team to present Mr. Ragland with the Classcraft - Teacher of the Year award! Classcraft is a new, game-based approach to compliment instruction. It's designed to encourage participation, good behavior, and 21st-century skills like collaboration. Only 4 teachers across the United States were selected for this award. Congratulations, Mr. Ragland! And Channel 6 was there to record the event!

Delaware Valley Science Competition awarded the following awards last night following Wednesdays competition: Arjun Suryawanshi and Rohan Kapoor - 1st place TEAM award; Josh Vallabhaneni - 2nd place award in Engineering; Varoon Joshi - 2nd place award in Behavioral & Social Sciences; Anand Shah - 3rd place award in Medicine & Health. Congratulations to all of these students!

The following Patton students competed in regional Bee competitions in March in Cinnaminson, NJ: Amy Goodman, John Kinsley, Rikhil Kumar, Nate Lawrence, Suhan Neema and Dylan Potts. John qualified for the national Science and History Bees taking place in Chicago in June. In the History Bee: Amy, Nate and Rikhil qualified for the International and National competitions; and John and Suhan qualified for the National competitions. In the Academic Bee: Nate, Rikhil and Suhan qualified for the National competition. In the Science Bee: Amy, John, Rikhil and Suhan qualified for the National competition. In addition, Nate Lawrence traveled to Harrisburg to the State Geographic Bee that was held in the State Museum of Pennsylvania. He had a great run but did not move on to Nationals.We are #PattonProud of these students on their achievements!

Congratulations on the selection of Arjun Suryawanshi, Joshua Vallabhaneni, Rohan Kapoor, Varoon Joshi, as Nominees for the 2019 Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars), a program of Society for Science & the Public. Only the top 10% of middle school projects nationwide are invited to apply online for the national competition. Just receiving a nomination is a huge honor and amazing achievement!

Congratulations to Sophie Rissmiller for being named a winner in the UCFSD Holiday Card Design Contest!! You can see her beautifully drawn card scrolling in the home page photo gallery above. Great job, Sophie!

Congratulations to Patton Athletics on earning the PIAASports Sportsmanship Award for the 2017-18 school year!! We are #PattonProud!

Congratulations to Anuj Peri, Dylan Potts, Amy Goodman and Nate Lawrence for their participation in the National Level of the History Bee, which took place last weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. We are happy to report that Dylan, Amy, and Nate advanced to the quarterfinals. Great job! We are Patton Proud!!

Jessica Hall from Girl Scout Troop 4711 has been working hard on her Silver Award project! Jessica partnered with AHHAH to bring literacy and awareness to Kennett Square with the PULL Campaign! She has been busy collecting, sorting, and labeling books and making beautiful book boxes.

The Girl Scout Silver Award project is the highest award that a Cadette can earn. This project is about making positive changes making a community better in the process. She has accomplished that and more!

Jessica also created posters and bookmarks, both in English and Spanish, to put into each book at each PULL Station.  We are SO proud of her accomplishments and grateful to her for her dedication and creativity!  Jessica truly has a bright future ahead of her!

Here is her story:

I started this project in late November 2017. The first time I met Jan Michener, the founder of AHHAH, I was drawn in when she talked with such passion about what she and AHHAH did. When she told me about how some kids were at a disadvantage going into school because they didn’t have access to enough books, I knew how important it was; books shaped my life as a child, so much so that I now aspire to be an author. I knew that this project was going to be something special and lasting, not just an experience for me but for everyone it would impact.

My goal was to create ten free lending libraries, called “Take a Book, Read a Book, Leave a Book Boxes”, to establish in Kennett Square.

Congratulations to Patton's Reading Olympics teams for their outstanding performance at last night's competition at the Technical College High School in Downingtown. Competing against schools from throughout Chester County, the Nerdy Chickens and the Supercalifragilistics won blue ribbons, while the Quirky Narwhals won red ribbons. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs. Nanis and Mrs. Rafferty for accompanying the teams as moderator and scorekeeper -- we couldn't have done it without you!
 

We are excited to announce that 7th grader, Sahil Mitra, has been selected for semi finals in the Student Invention Convention. His invention idea is "An affordable and efficient semi-permanent housing solution". Congrats Sahil!

Congratulations to 6th grader, Hailey Gates who recently participated in the Regional History Bee. Along with Hailey, 6th grade student Liam Church and 7th grade student Amy Goodman also took part in the Bee and have qualified for the National Finals to be held June 1st and 2nd in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, the following students have qualified to participate nationally in both the History Bee and the US Geography Olympiad: 6th graders Jacob Cassidy and Allie Stanislawczyk, 7th graders, Rikhil Kumar, Nate Lawrence, Akash Patel, Anuj Peri, and Dylan Potts, and 8th grader Arnab Sircar. Special Recognition goes to Nate Lawrence, who out of a field of 42 seventh grade competitors came away as the state History Bee winner! Wonderful job, Nate and all of the other History Bee Participants. Good luck at Nationals!

In The American Scholastic Achievement League, students have been provided with an entertaining and challenging enrichment activity that allows them to demonstrate a variety of problem solving skills and knowledge in many academic areas. In 6th grade, Benjamin Scali finished 1st place in the state of Pennsylvania. In 8th grade, Arnab Sircar finished 1st place in the state of Pennsylvania. The team of Arnab Sircar, Robert Wang, Chirag Choudhary and Ibraheem Qureshi took 2nd place Nationally. Congratulations and we are #PattonProud!

Congratulations to Allison Van. She is a member of the The Downingtown Robotics Team 7244, Out of the Box that has advanced to the World Championship to be held later this month in Michigan following impressive victories in international competition.

The following students represented Patton MS in the recent Delaware Valley Science Research Competition:  Arnab Sircar, Chirag Choudhary, Saanvi Garg, Marissa Lux and Sree Yedida.

Sree Yedida came away with a Broadcom Masters award, a WEST Pharmaceutical Middle School Award and a 1st place in Biochemistry award.

Marissa Lux came away with a Broadcom Masters award, a 2nd place award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, Middle School level and a 3rd place Earth & Space Sciences award.

Saanvi Garg came away with a 3rd place award from Janssen Biotech, a 1st place from Merck Science Achievement award, middle school level and an Honorable Mention award in Medicine & Health.

Chirag Choudhary received an honorable mention award from Merck Scientific Achievement and a Parenteral Drug Association award.

These awards and prizes included cash prizes of well over $500 along with opportunities to move on to the Broadcom Masters competition.  
 

Congratulations to Arnab Sircar for placing first at the State Geography Bee in Harrisburg on April 6! Arnab will now head to Washington D.C. to participate in the National Geography Bee. We are #PattonProud of Arnab! And check out this great article in the Unionville Times!

Congratulations to the following students who participated in the Chester County Computer Fair on Friday, April 6, 2018. Animation:  The group of Allison Van, Ryan Zhuge and Grace Zou. Digital Movie:  Aria Zutshi. Web Page Design:  Eric Chou and Arnab Sircar. Programming: Xander Wunsch. The team of Allison, Ryan and Grace took 3rd place in the category of Animation. Eric took 2nd place in Web page design and Xander took 2nd place in Programming. A big congratulations goes out to Aria Zutshi who took 1st place in the category of Animation and will be competing at the state level fair in May 2018.

Congratulations go out to the following students who won awards at the Chester County Science Research competition:

Sree Yedida - 1st place in Biochemistry
Marissa Lux - 1st place Earth & Space Science and The Richard & Patty Smith Special Future Scientist Award
Arnab Sircar - 1st place in Mathematics
Saanvi Garg - 1st place in Medicine & Health
Ria Saxena - 3rd place in Medicine & Health
Chirag Choudhary - 2nd place in Microbiology
Kristen Tolbert - 3rd place in Microbiology

The following students will continue on and participate in the DelVal Science Research Competition in April: SreeYedida, Marissa Lux, Arnab Sircar, Saanvi Garg and Chirag Choudary.

Congratulations go out to our 2nd place winners in the STEM Competition, Josh Vallabhaneni, Akash Patel, Aryan Abbaruja and Eric Steuber! #PattonProud!

Patton had a GREAT day at the Grade 6 Chester County MathCounts competition on Saturday. Chi Xu won 1st place!! The team of Chi Xu, Sree Yedida, Lilly Zhang, and Emily Wu placed 3rd and the team of Calista Photopoulos, Chloe Photopoulos, Michael Ta, and Mihir Sehgal finished 6th!! A great day was had by all! We are #PattonProud of our students and team advisor (and former Patton Hawk!) Kendall Yarosh!

Congratulations to Patton's Mathletes who competed in the Chester County Mathcounts competition on Saturday. In a field of 25 teams, our team of Elias Bomberger, Suhan Neema, Arnab Sircar, and Robert Wang came away finishing in 5th place. Our team of Meera Seghal, Saanvi Garg, Medha Patel, Clifford Han, Ibraheem Qureshi, and Chirag Choudhary also did a great job! A special shout out to 7th grader Elias Bomberger, who out of 202 competitors finished the day moving from 7th place to 2nd place of the competition during the countdown round, where he answered numerous math problems correctly, making him eligible to advance to the state level of Mathcounts!