On December 18th, 2025, Shaler Area Middle School held their 13th-annual Volleyball Winter Classic Tournament. This is the culmination of the volleyball unit in Phys. Ed. 43 teams of students battled it out for the Winter Classic trophy, with approximately 345 students and 43 staff members participating in this day-long

Shaler Area Middle School is constantly fostering community partnerships and facilitating enrichment opportunities for students. One amazing opportunity this semester is the What’s So Cool About Manufacturing film competition, which pairs storytelling with engineering exploration. Through partnering with Catalyst Connections, Shaler Area Middle School has two full-film production teams competing

Last week we welcomed current and former members of the armed services for our Veterans Day Breakfast at Shaler Area Middle School. We are grateful for this opportunity to say thank you to our veterans for their dedication and service through this annual celebration. Each year, it is a powerful

The girl’s middle school volleyball team enjoyed some team bonding watching the University of Pittsburgh women’s volleyball team play Georgia Tech. Both the seventh-grade and eighth-grade Shaler Area teams have been working so hard this season and have been representing their school and program by playing and training like one

Twenty years ago Shaler Area Middle School teacher Brian Duermeyer started an annual assembly to commemorate 9/11. Duermeyer explains: I started 9/11 Day in 2005 after realizing my students had very little knowledge of what had happened four years earlier. The old SAMS held a building-wide moment of silence, but

Recently, science students in Mr. LaGamba and Mrs. Lafayette’s classes began their first lab of the year. The objective of the lab was to test different dish soap brands through trials to see which brand yielded the highest diameter.

Congratulations to Savannah, a seventh-grade student at Shaler Area Middle School, who has earned a spot in CLO Mini Stars through a rigorous audition process. The Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars, a hallmark of the organization’s legacy in cultivating young musical theater talent have returned to the Pittsburgh area to delight

Students in Mrs. Welka’s seventh-grade Ancient Empire class are learning about longitude and latitude and how these conceptual lines form an imaginary grid on the surface of the earth. These lines are used to find absolute location. Students used Google Earth’s latitude and longitude feature to locate specific places around

This summer, six Shaler Area students experienced biology and culture in a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos Islands. Middle school students Colby Mine, Skylar Mine, Nick Mulkerin, Paige Peterson, Katie Polochak, and Dillon Stegman, led by Teacher Dennis Reagle, first stopped in Quito, Ecuador. While in Quito, students toured a