Miller Middle School will recognize first semester academic honors during an awards assembly Monday, Feb. 25, at 6pm in the Miller Auditorium.
Recognitions will include A and B Honor Roll students and those with perfect attendance for the first semester.
Doors will open at 5:30pm with special musical entertainment.
Four groups from Marshalltown High School competed at the Iowa High School Speech Association State Large Group Contest at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School Feb. 2, with all earning Division I and II ratings.
The Ensemble Acting Group featuring Analisa Iole and Emily Murtha earned a top Division I score with their performance of “Sorry Dude”.
Earning Division II ratings were the Musical Theater group, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”, featuring Ilene Finn, Michaela Huey, Abby Snyder, Wynn Tan, Iole and Murtha; the Group Improv team of Austin Safley and Olivia Hawkins; and Radio News team “KLAF” featuring Zakary Herink, Chandler Fisher, and Hawkins.
Coaches Craig Luttrell and Julie Bousum are now working with District Individual Speech contestants who will compete at Center Point-Urbana on Saturday, Feb. 16.
Front (L to R): Michaela Huey, Analisa Iole, Therese Kuhlman, Abigail Stone. Back: Ellen Podhajsky, Hannah Stone, Emma Runquist, Kyle Bartles.
Eight Marshalltown High School musicians participated in the Cyclone Honor Band Feb. 1-2, 2013, at Iowa State University.
Analisa Iola, Hannah Stone, Abigail Stone and Therese Kuhlman participated in the top concert band, which is selected primarily from All-State nominated students and Kyle Bartles, Michaela Huey, Ellen Podhajsky and Emma Runquist participated in the second concert band. The students rehearsed for two days and presented a concert on Saturday afternoon.
Lenihan Intermediate families and staff celebrated their young scholars Tuesday with a special “Hats Off to Our Scholars” night in the MHS/Community Auditorium.
Two receptions were held Feb. 12: one for fifth grade students and their families at 5:30pm and another for sixth grade students and families at 7pm. Principal Ralph Bryant and associate principal Liz Jurgensen announced the names of students on the Gold and Silver honor rolls as they walked across the stage and shook hands with Lenihan staff members.
Gold Honor Roll represented students receiving all A grades in the first semester. A combined 80 fifth and sixth grade students earned this distinction.
Silver Honor Roll members earned all A or B grades. A total 230 students were honored for this achievement.
Students entering kindergarten this fall are invited to registration Friday, March 8, 9am to 3pm at all Marshalltown Community School District elementary schools.
Students must be 5 years old by Sept. 15, 2013, to enroll in kindergarten for 2013-2014. Please bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate and updated immunization records. Book rental fee is $40.
Families should register their kindergartener at their neighborhood elementary school. A map of District attendance zones is available at www.marshalltown.k12.ia.us under the “Parent Resources” tab. Students living in the Central Zone or rural areas may register at any building on March 8, though enrollment building will be determined according to class sizes, sibling enrollment, etc.
An informational meeting about the District’s Dual Language Program will be held Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 5:30pm at Woodbury Elementary. Students who enroll in the Dual Language Program attend Woodbury Elementary.
Fatima Hernandez, 14, an eighth grader at Miller Miller School, knows she is at school to learn and doesn’t get sidetracked.
“I just come here and do my work,” Hernandez said.
Read Fatima’s Spotlight in today’s Marshalltown Times-Republican.
If they could fill the Marshalltown High School Roundhouse with books, they would sure try.
A group of MHS seniors who are also Junior Rotarians and holding a book drive to collect books to be handed out to young Marshalltown students at a big event April 18.
Read the full story in today’s Marshalltown Times-Republican.
Marshalltown High School hosted the Iowa High School Music Association Class 2A/4A State Jazz Festival Saturday, Jan. 26, with MHS Jazz I earning top marks.
Sixteen bands from eleven schools performed in Marshalltown before a panel of three judges: Curtiss Klein of Fort Dodge; Terry Hazlik of Omaha, Neb.; and Mark Door of West Des Moines.
Bands also received clinics after their performances with Chris Merz from Cedar Falls and Brent Sandy from Iowa City.
Marshalltown’s Jazz I earned a Division I ranking for their performance. Jazz II earned a Division II ranking.
Other schools competing included:
The MHS jazz bands will next travel to Cedar Falls to compete in the Tallcorn Jazz Festival at UNI on February 15 and MHS Jazz II will compete in the Hoover Jazz Festival on March 2 in Des Moines.
Connor Ruddick, Ashley Harris, Daniel Talbert, Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds, Jonathon Kirner, Ben Anzis (not present James Talbert, Jacob Ramsey-Smith).
A team from Marshalltown High School competed in the Real World Design Challenge Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Science Center in Des Moines.
The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams are asked to address a challenge that confronts our nation’s leading industries. Students utilize professional engineering software to develop their solutions and will also generate written reports and presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace.
This year’s challenge had students designing a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to find an injured/missing child. Marshalltown’s team, comprised of students Ben Anzis, Ashley Harris, Jonathon Kirner, Jacob Ramsey-Smith, Connor Ruddick, Daniel Talbert, and James Talbert, developed a model for a drone system that would recover lost children in the mountains of New Mexico. The team spent countless hours meeting with engineers from Iowa State University and using aerospace engineering software to design their plane and components in order to minimize search time and cost.
“Although MHS wasn’t one of the top [two] teams, we are confident that the points we earned placed us among the top four,” said Susan Fritzell, MHS Extended Learning Program teacher.
Seven teams presented at the state competition, with Davenport West High placing first.
Marshalltown High School senior Ben Anzis is a candidate for the prestigious US Presidential Scholars program.
Established in 1964 by presidential order, the program honors the nation’s most distinguished graduating seniors. Anzis is currently among a pool of elite high school students who will vie for one of 560 semifinalist positions. Each year up to 141 students are named Presidential Scholars.
In order to be eligible for this recognition, students must be high school seniors who “score exceptionally well on either the SAT of the College Board or the ACT of the American College Testing Program or be nominated by their Chief State School Officer (CSSO) based on outstanding scholarship.”
Semifinalists will be announced in early April, with the Presidential Scholars being named in May.
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