🏄♀️🌊SURF'S UP🌊🏄
Celebrate National School Breakfast Week with the Martin County School District!
This year’s theme is Surf’s Up With School Breakfast. Students, get charged up for a day of learning by grabbing breakfast in the cafeteria all week long!
Watch this video highlighting the daily options created by Citrus Grove Elementary School Food and Nutrition Services Manager Christy Cole and her students: https://youtu.be/Oh5_igPqngg
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MCHS girls varsity lacrosse attack player, LILY WERNICK, has been nominated for TCPALM player of the week! Please vote for her using link below! You can vote as many times as you’d like! It takes two clicks! Let’s get Lily and our school this recognition! Way to go Lily! https://www.tcpalm.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/03/04/vote-tcpalms-athlete-of-the-week-for-feb-26-mar-2-playing-period/72837170007/
The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology is offering an internship opportunity that is paid and full time through the summer. It is only for students interested and taking courses in STEM. Please see link below, posting closes on March 17th.
Link: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/529824/kenan-fellow-high-school-student-research-internjupiter-fl
Students from the Academy of Computer Science attended Florida’s first-ever statewide high school cybersecurity competition: CyberLaunch! CyberLaunch introduced high school students to the universe of cybersecurity careers through the fun of a statewide competition.
The Martin County High School Jazz Ensemble and Drama department performed at the grand opening of the Destination Playground at Kiwanis Park in downtown Stuart. The Jazz Ensemble performed several selections and Drama students performed excerpts from their upcoming production of "Seussical the Musical", which will be showing April 25-27th at Martin County High School.
Wondering how to join the AICE program at MCHS? Interested in learning more about what AICE is and what its benefits are? For more information, watch our video at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6pjIWAXOiIoScg2Orcb7EbtTOO7x5Xa/view?usp=drive_link or by scanning the QR Code.
MCHS Alumnus, Ryan Mitchell, won 1st place at the Research Data Visualization Competition at Duke University! Ryan shares that data visualization is what he most loves to do! Storytelling with numbers is what excited him about statistics in the first place. Congratulations!
🍎CHOOSING THE BEST🍎
During an Emergency Meeting held this evening, the Martin County School Board voted to add Martin County High School and Jensen Beach High School to the list of approved Controlled Open Enrollment schools for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year.
This means in AND out-of-county residents can apply to ANY MCSD-operated school during the application period that will open tomorrow, March 1 – March 31.
For high school students, applications for signature programs are no longer required as part of the Choice process, but must be completed if your child would like to be considered for entrance into a signature program.
ℹ️Students accepted into a Controlled Open Enrollment choice option must have their own mode of transportation to and from school. Students are not required to renew their applications annually and will be permitted to attend their chosen school through the highest grade level offered on the campus.
➡️Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/page/office-of-school-choice
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HS Seniors will mainly find Going Merry useful this spring to find additional local and national scholarship opportunities, compare financial aid award letters using College Cost Insights, and use our appeal letter resources to ask for additional free aid from schools - to name a few. Onboarding 101 (https://www.goingmerry.com/counselor-resource-student-onboarding-handout/) lists the steps to help students search and apply for real, verified scholarships on Going Merry to help pay for college.
Caden Kokinda and Santiago Pacheco are the JROTC Cadets of the Month for February!
ESE Parent Workshop, Project 10-Transition Basics: Information for Families and Others Who Support Students with Disabilities is on March 21, 2024 from 6-7pm via Zoom:
https://martinschools-org.zoom.us/j/86852590506
Congratulations to the MCHS Character Counts! winners for Responsibility:
Kaitlyn Gary
Najah Karake
Dayanna Hernandez
Isabella Montoya
Mia Valeri
Madison Loudon
Esmeralda Gaona
Ava Nowicki
Lucas Rookard
Emmanual Ramirez
Teacher – Ms. Vanessa Porcelli
🍎PUBLIC SCHOOL PROUD🍎
Celebrate Public Schools Week with the Martin County School District!
We proudly educate about 18,000 PK-12 students across 29 facilities.
All week long, join us in celebrating the amazing things happening in our public schools and the people who make it all happen!
Today is Memory Lane Monday!
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🏆HEADING TO STATE🏆
The Martin County High School wrestling team pinned their way to 7th in Regionals out of 30 teams this weekend!
Three MCHS wrestlers took 3rd in their weight class and are heading to the State Championship! Special congratulations to:
🥉 Corbin Fjalstad (120)
🥉 Jack Duke (138)
🥉 Reece Smith (215)
Congratulations to all the wrestlers and their coaches!
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Congratulations to the MCHS AFJROTC Drill and Fitness team members who came in 3rd place in the Inaugural Congressman Mast Drill and Fitness competition. Team members: Sal Yonta, (Leader), Caden Kokinda, Santiago Pacheco, Grady Stahl, Katelyn Hardy, and Angeline Simpson. Events include the following: Uniform inspection, color guard, element drill, flag raising and folding, impromptu speech, 1 mile beach run, fitness circuit, and obstacle course relay.
Honor Flight presentation was held at MCHS on February 22 in the JROTC classroom.
The Martin County School District is proud to celebrate February as Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month!
CTE Month is recognized to applaud and highlight the value of CTE and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs across Florida.
This is the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the incredible achievements of some of our CTE students who recently participated in the SkillsUSA Regional Contest at Orange Technical College in Orlando!
Ten Martin County High School students participated in the regional contest with students competing in: Architectural Drafting, Automotive Maintenace & Light Repair, Baking & Pastry Arts, Computer Programming, Photography, Welding and Welding Sculpture.
We're proud to share that Tishaly Acosta Ramos (Baking & Pastry Arts) and Chloe Tolton (Photography) took home bronze medals in their respective categories!
Huge congratulations to these talented students for their remarkable success!
Learn more about CTE Month and the amazing CTE programs we offer here: https://www.martinschools.org/article/1469205
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This weekend our district wide indoor drumline MCI placed 4th in Scholastic A at FFCC competition. We are proud of all our students as the first year of this program continues to excel.
2024 Martin Parent Survey is NOW open!
Please take the time to provide feedback to the Martin County School District.
Link to survey: http://survey.5-essentials.org/martin/survey/parent/
🍎CHARTING A COURSE TO SUCCESS🍎
📢 Calling all 8th grade families: high school is right around the corner!
Each Martin County School District comprehensive high school is hosting Freshman Preview to showcase their Career & Technical Education and signature programs.
Students may apply to attend any MCSD high school during our School Choice application period, which opens on March 1.
Explore Cambridge International Education (AICE), International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP) Capstone, and the different CTE academies that are only available at the specific schools during their preview events!
➡️Martin County High School's Freshman Showcase: Wednesday, 2/21, at 5:30 p.m.
➡️Jensen Beach High School's Freshman Preview: Tuesday, 2/27, at 5:30 p.m.
➡️South Fork High School's Freshman Showcase: Thursday, 2/29, at 5:30 p.m.
ℹ️ More information about School Choice and freshman previews here: https://www.martinschools.org/article/1467067
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