Snow day after snow day, Notre Dame HS lost precious days of learning with either delays or days off. The students and teachers must now pay the price, with extra days added onto the school calendar, most noticeably during Holy Week. Despite the long winter season and many lost learning opportunities, extra-curricular activities at Notre Dame continued to flourish and accomplish their goals set for the cold winter months.

Junior Abby Marone, number one in Pennsylvania in Speech and Debate, finished 12th out of 397 competitors in Student Congress at the Harvard Tournament. Another standout, junior Joe Wetzel, is ranked 149 out of 150 in Pennsylvania.

The most significant activity at Notre Dame was the sixth annual Mini-THON, which raises money for children with pediatric cancer. Modeled after Penn State's 46-hour THON, participants danced for a full 24 hours, only pausing to take a bus ride to and from the boy's basketball Colonial League championship game against Catasauqua. The boys won the game 60-58 with a difficult rebound shot by senior Vincent Eze as the buzzer sounded.

At the game, nearly 300 Mini-THON participants filled the Freedom gymnasium with bright colors of red, blue, green, orange, yellow, and purple. The energy was electrifying, especially after the last basket was made. After the game, the dancers returned to the Notre Dame gymnasium filled with school spirit and excitement. They danced, sang, cried, and chanted "FTK" during the dance-a-thon. At the end of the 24 long hours, signs were held up by senior dancers displaying the total amount raised for the Four Diamonds Fund$74, 587.80.

The total continues to rise as more donations get sent in.

When school work is finished, students spend much of their free winter nights at basketball games, supporting both the boys and girls.

The boy's basketball team finished its season with an 11-9 record, amazingly going on an 11-game win winning streak after multiple losses at the beginning of the season, largely due to Eze sitting out because of an injury. They won the league championship game against Catasauqua and now continue on to play for the District championship.

Senior Tannor Reed became the10th Crusader to score 1,000 points throughout his high school career.

As the end of the third quarter approaches, sophomores can't wait to be upperclassmen, juniors are excited to finally be seniors, and seniors experience mixed feelings as they prepare for college, leaving the halls of Notre Dame. No matter the stress that they experience during their final months as high school students, the 126 seniors are taking advantage of every last moment they have with each other.