Plainfield Community School Corporation

Ever wonder why French people eat such rich, fine-tasting food and never seem to gain weight? Students from French 2 and Advanced Nutrition explored this very question through their participation in a Legacy Grant project, Bon Appétit!

All aspects of planning, purchasing, translating, metric conversion and preparing Powerpoint presentations took place the week before spring break.  On March 29^th, students were put to the test of organizing 6 kitchens - restaurant style -  in order to create selected recipes taken from the New York bestseller, French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano.

Needless to say, fun was had by all when it came time to finally sit down to nicely set tables and feast on the fruits of their labors.

PHS Students raised $6,125.21 for Riley Children's Hospital at our Riley Dance Marathon!  Anthony Bolen was the winner of the 32 inch flat screen TV and Sydni Abel won the iPad!  Thank you PHS, we are proud of you!

On March 11-13, Plainfield High School's DECA chapter had 66 students compete in the DECA State Competition in Indianapolis.  Students competed in a variety of marketing, management and entrepreneurship events. PHS received the Diamond Level Award for their DECA week campaign as well as the Summit Level Award for a project submitted by Breanna Segovia, senior and president of PHS DECA.  Junior Michelle Goda was elected District 8 President.  Michelle will now have the responsibility to provide her leadership to the other DECA chapters in her district including Brownsburg, Avon, Martinsville, Ben Davis, and Decatur.  The following students competed at DECA State 2012:

Susanna Adjei, Zeeshan Ali, Usman Ali, Alyssa Bavar, Matt Brannin, Megan Broman, Hunter Brown, Alec Caprarella, Jackson Cavanaugh, Sara Chrispell, Sara Copeland, Liz Cozart, Savannah Dairl, Jonatha Daum, Brittany Davis, Keenan Flick, Justin Fortener, Luke Gelfuis, Katie Gilbert, Nikki Gilbert, Michelle Goda, Marissa Harris, Scott Harrod, Mady Hayden, Alex Hinnen, Zachary Hopper

Pictured: Michelle Goda, District 8 President
& Breanna Segovia, president of PHS DECA

Carrie Farris began the CHAP class’ Domestic America unit of study by dressing as a 1950s housewife. She read an excerpt to her students from an actual home economics textbook; Mr. Cavanaugh dressed as a 1950s father and read to the students from "The Good Citizens Handbook." Both of these publications were from the 1950s. The students were inspired to have their own 1950s dress up day later in the week.

Left to right:

Fatima Khan, Maci Williams, Molly Gillenwater, Krista Berkey, Stacie Kammerling, Maria Whicher, Audrey Koeberlein, Katrina Taivalkoski, Bailey Jackman, and Alec Weiss (in chair)

Left to right:

Betsy Gillenwater, Morgan Heald, Michelle Goda, Josh Morris, Nate Soller, Dane Kirchoff-Foster, and Chase Patterson