On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse was visible to Norwin High School students, passing through Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Norwin students celebrated this once-in-a-lifetime event by traveling across the state and to nearby states — to Erie with their families or Ohio with Mr. Anticole, a Norwin physics teacher. Despite the various trips that students went on to view the solar eclipse on April 8, the Norwin School District announced that they would be invoking a Flexible Instruction Day (FID) on the date of the eclipse, to avoid any potential dangers of looking at the eclipse without protective eyewear.
Many students who take Mr. Anticole’s physics courses, and others interested in the solar eclipse, went on a school-sponsored field trip to Cortland, Ohio. During the eclipse day, around 53 students and 3 adult chaperones went on a Coach bus to see the eclipse just to the North of the path of totality predicted by NASA.
However, other students visited other places — like Erie, PA, or other spots in Ohio — to view the total eclipse on April 8. Regardless of the spot, a variety of Norwin High School students went to view the eclipse. Students enjoyed the eclipse thoroughly, as the next total eclipse in the Northeastern United States won’t be until the year 2099. However, there will be a total eclipse to hit the continental U.S. (southwest in Washington county) in August 2044.
Norwin students went to cities within the Path of Totality with their families, loved ones, or friends. The school-sponsored trip to Ohio viewed the eclipse at a local high school in Cortland, Ohio, where there was music and the students who went got the chance to watch the total eclipse on the field of a high school among other students from different schools.