Pekin Community High School District #303 - The Fire is Within

Mr. Lang's geometry students completing the WRAP THAT PRISM challenge. Knowing surface area will help meet the requirement of little to no paper left over.

Environmental Club students are getting the painted background ready for their bottle cap collage. Stay tuned for our progress in the coming weeks!

Parenting students completed a day wearing the pregnancy belly! Next comes the mechanical baby for the weekend!

Having your teacher read to you is not just for elementary! Spanish 8 students enjoy listening and following along as we read Vida Y Muerte. Bonus when the weather allows us to listen outside!

Ms. Chick's Biology class playing musical chairs to review for an upcoming assessment!

Baking and Pastry working on final projects. #dragonpride #ilcte

Physical Science students are working hard and collaborating on their Simple Machine Redesign Challenge

PreCalculus students did a belated egg hunt today to practice the binomial theorem and used QR codes to check their answers.

Monday night Pekin FFA traveled to Midland and competed in their section Poultry and Ag Business contests. BOTH teams took home 1st place! The poultry team will be traveling to the state contest tomorrow. Poultry Indv. placings: 1st- Austin Bernath 2nd- Trey Garmon 6th- Ben Livengood 9th- Levi Magee Ag Business Indv. placings: 1st- Tyler Thomas 3rd- Kailey Stibs 4th- Marshal Pruitt

Bio 3/4 is preparing for their unit summative by playing a few rounds of Capture the Flag review

Aramark's "Grandma Sue" shows off her new breakfast offerings to her hungry PCHS teens. Stop by the pillars and check it out!

AAUW honored the female students with 4.0 GPAs and announced their two scholarship winners - Brianna Wood and Liz Hayden!

Zoology is starting their reptile unit! Let's take a vote! ❤️if you think Sanchez is an alligator or 👍for crocodile! Or let us know in the comments!

Painting students practice using black and white under-paintings and glazing techniques to create portraits.

Congrats to Jacob for winning his first match against Peoria Notre Dame!

Baseball, Track, Softball, and Tennis--- Oh my! A busy and windy day at PCHS!

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle! AP Earth and Enviro students went out and collected cardboard for the upcoming boat design competition in Physical Science!

Intro to 3D Art students are working hard at adding glaze to their ceramic boxes today.

The 34th Legislative Session of the government classes convened today. 8 bills passed, 5 failed. There were 2 vetoes, but only one was able to be overridden. Great job, students!

Biology 2 students collaborating to complete a stations activity to deepen their understanding of Mendelian genetics 🧬