Fox Chapel

The Fox Chapel Area High School Athletic Department is offering a discounted ticket booklet for the 2008-09 school year. The booklet contains tickets good for any 10 Fox Chapel Area High School home athletic events during the school year, with the exception of football. The cost is $25 for adults and $15 for students. The cost savings is $25 for adults and $15 for students. The Athletic Department reserves the right to exclude certain athletic events.

The ticket packages go on sale Tuesday and will be sold Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the high school athletic office.

The ticket booklet can also be purchased at the gate of sporting events. For information, call the athletic department at 412-967-2421. Only checks and cash can be accepted, no credit card orders. Fox Chapel Area High School is at 611 Field Club Road in O'Hara.

• Dorseyville Middle School has been named one of five nationwide grand-prize winners in the sixth annual Win a Wireless Lab sweepstakes. As a winner, the school will receive about $45,000 worth of technology equipment from the sponsors of the contest, CDW Government Inc., a subsidiary of CDW Corp., a source of information technology solutions to educators and governments, and from Discovery Education, which provides digital video and multimedia-based learning.

Each grand-prize winning school will receive a 21st-century classroom, complete with wireless tablet PCs, interactive classroom equipment, and digital equipment.

The other four grand-prize winning schools are Springwood School in Lanett, Ala.; Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Ky.; St. Michael School in Cranford, N.J., and Vermont Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles.

"The wireless lab is the next step toward creating a more interactive and engaged learning environment," said Mike Wolinsky, sixth-grade technology education teacher at Dorseyville Middle School. "The technology will help us ... build students' 21st-century learning skills and to promote critical thinking and differentiated instruction."

Quaker Valley

For the fourth year in a row, the National Association of Music Makers has named Quaker Valley one of the Best Communities in Music Education in America.

This year, 110 schools received the honor. Quaker Valley was selected from districts representing 29 states.

• The American School Counselor Association has designated Quaker Valley High School's counseling program as a Recognized ASCA Model Program, meaning the program meets the standards of the association.

These programs were among those highlighted in the school's application: the high school's transition program for students moving from middle school to high school, the use of the book, "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens," and "40 Developmental Assets" in guidance programming and curriculum, and the high school Culture Club, created by students to build acceptance of differences among students, including race, nationality, religion, gender, class and body type