20 MARCH 24 - MARCH 30, 2017 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP Did you know? You are more likely to be struck by lightening than you are to win a large-sum lottery jackpot. You are more likely to pick a 4 -leaf clover on your fi rst try than you are to win a large- sum lottery jackpot. You are more likely to become an astronaut at some point in the next 54 years than you are to win a large-sum lottery jackpot. Know ALL the facts before YOU decide! March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month Have the Conversation Underage Gambling Can Lead to: • Addiction • Delinquency & Crime • Damaged Relationships • Depression & Anxiety www.YOUthDecideNY.org www.pdhpbklyndiocese.org Photo courtesy of St. Edmund Prep The St. Edmund Prep Model Congress team. St. Edmund Prep students excel at Model Congress During the weekend of February 23 through 26, the St. Edmund Prep Model Congress team headed to Boston, Massachusetts for the third consecutive year to compete in a government simulation run by the Harvard Model Congress. The school’s team, which consisted of eight young men and four young women, competed against 1,500 other students from schools around the nation and even a few from Eastern Europe and one school from Greece. The students were responsible for all aspects of parliamentary procedure, bill writing and bill enactment in their respective committees for the House and/or Senate. At the end of the four days, committee chairpersons selected honorable mentions and best delegates. The best delegates received a gavel which is engraved and extremely prestigious, as only 70 in total are given out. St. Edmund Prep Model Congress received three of those gavels, won by Chris Healy, Jared Rios and John McCarthy. The school also had two honorable mentions in Jack Harkin and Vincent Carucci. St. Ephrem pride shines at diocesan math bee Twenty of the best and brightest math students in the diocese gathered in the auditorium of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy on the afternoon of February 28, 2017. They gathered together with a mixture of nervousness, expectancy and wonder as they participated in the Diocesan upper grade math bee. The math bee consisted of14 eighth graders, four seventh graders and two sixth graders. St. Ephrem School would like to congratulate seventh grader Allie Giordano, who came in second place after lasting 20 rounds. Angela Frisari is the math bee coordinator at St. Ephrem School. —Rosaleen DeGregorio Photo courtesy of St. Ephrem School Diocesan math bee second place winner Allie Giordano pictured with Principal Craig Mercado and Math Bee Coordinator Angela Frisari.
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