Ada's latest news

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If you have students in Ada schools here's some important things to know:

• Ohio's State Tests for grades 3 to 12 covering English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science are scheduled in April.

• There's a two-hour early relese on Tuesday, March 29.

• A pint-size hero blood drive is Tueday, March 29.

• Interested in viewing the 2014-15 Ada school test results? Then, read on:

There's lots more school news it and all in the March school newsletter.

CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE NEWSLETTER

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Ada is well-known for great pizza shops.

Now there’s a new shop in town and the ingredient options are, well, out of this world.

Ada third graders, working in art class, developed a collage project that is one-of-a-kind.

According to Kristie Steiner, art teacher, students were asked to create their very own pizza, name it and name the toppings.

These aren’t plain-old cheese pizzas. Each was required to have five toppings and to show texture.

CHECK OUT ALL THE PIZZA VARIETIES IN THE ATTACHMENT BELOW -

Steiner said that pizza project was a great success and it also carried over to computer class as well.

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Here's a important message recently seen on the south side of town. That was probably the phone call you didn't answer.

 

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Here's certain sign of spring: spring sports.

The Icon is now posting Ada High School and Ohio Northern University spring sports events scheduled in March.

To access the sports calendar, place your cursor over "calendar," and "sports calendar" will drop down. Click on it and it will take you to the sports calendar.

Please be patient: We are still working on April and May.

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Apollo Career Center will hold its fourth annual Apollopalooza on Thursday, April 14, 5:30-7 p.m.

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 A trio of Ohio Northern University students were named University Innovation Fellows by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter).

Adam Berry, a junior mechanical engineering major from Brunswick, Ohio; Nathan Craft, a senior civil engineering major from West Alexandria, Ohio; and Jonathan Szczerba, a junior biochemistry major from Mount Victory, Ohio; have just completed training to join Epicenter’s University Innovation Fellows, a national program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.
 

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