Success of Canonsburg Girls Night Out grows

CANONSBURG – Many of the girls at Canonsburg Middle School Girls’ Night Out last week were back for a second go-round.
They said it was so much fun last year, that they wanted to do it again.
“You get to be with friends,” said eighth-grader Francesca Scenna.
“And spend time together,” eighth-grader Kimberleigh Minnis piped up.
It’s the fourth year in a row that counselors and teachers have organized a night of fun for seventh- and eighth-grade girls who go to school there.
At this age, girls sometimes have trouble figuring out where they belong, said Jill Dennick, an eighth-grade social studies teacher. At Girls’ Night Out, they are split into groups to go through each activity. Often, they are not with the girls they see in class every day so it’s a chance to get to know someone new.
“They come together and have fun,” Dennick said. “It’s a night for them to do girlie things.”
It was a night of decorating cookies, learning about self-defense, painting nails, dancing and making crafts.
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