Softball playoff game

Good luck to our softball team in the first round of the playoffs. They will travel to Redmond May 21. Game time 4:30.

Congratulations to our Boy's Golf Team

We placed 2nd at districts. Ryan Aker medalist 75/74=149. Grant Geelan tied for 2nd place 73/79=152. Great job Grizzlies!

Habitat Club's Thrones for Homes project

Recycled, repurposed and looking for a new home –McMinnville High School’s Habitat Club will soon be presenting its project and live Facebook auction “Thrones for Homes”. Students collected used chairs and local artists have donated their talents to transform them. Over a dozen chairs will be featured in this student-driven project. All proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity. The live Facebook auction will open at 8:00am on May 21st and close at 8:00pm on May 22nd. Advisor Katie Johnson

State Champ and On to Nationals!

Austin Ewing, a sophomore and member of the MHS Speech and Debate team, won 1st place in Memorized Humorous Interpretation at the OSAA Speech and Debate State Championships at Western Oregon University, held April 19-21. He also received 2nd place in Memorized Serious Interpretation.

Austin also double qualified in Humorous Interpretation, and Dramatic Interpretation at the National Qualification tournament held in March. He will be competing in HI, and Prose at the NFL Nationals Tournament in Indianapolis in June. Austin has demonstrated his talents throughout the last two years of competition, with many, many top finishes. Good luck at Nationals!

Emily

Don Witten's recent Field Notes focused on Emily a special needs student in his classroom. As a project in his Lyricism class students were asked to put pictures of their lives to music. With help from family and friends click here to view Emily's.

Nerd Herd Update

The kids had a great time in St. Louis and represented our school with gracious professionalism while at the event. We placed 57th in the Newton Division, out of 100. We were 220th, out of 400, in the nation. Not too bad for a bunch of rookies!

Here are a few highlights from Championship:

• Kids got to tour college and vendor booths…they had cardio vascular equipment companies, the CIA, Nasa, the Airforce and many other colleges and companies there to talk to the kids and give them prizes and scholarships. Many of the applications were online.
• Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a guest speaker at the opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies. He also did a book signing for his book What Color is My World!
• Our student volunteered to take VIP guests around the building and explained about the different contests, some using their bilingual skills for the international guests. One of the exciting guests that our students had were the VIP’s for Coca Cola. Great life and business skills for our kids at such a young age. Nathan Lausmann was upgraded to assistant and helped coordinate VIP guests down on the floor. He even had a headset and everything.
• We saw a full sized Nasa model of Curiosity, the new Mars rover that will land in August on Mars.

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Click here for our "Rebound Rumble".

Summer Reminder

Proof of enrollment is needed for any student who is planning to get their learner’s permit this summer. Please make plans now to assure you will have this documention. MHS office will be closed during the month of July. Students who need proof of enrollment will need to wait until August.