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District students win State Fair awards

August 31, 2010 -- Mounds View Public Schools students Nadine Anton, Peter Blosberg, Martha Chastain, Graham Fiebiger, Kezia Germ, Kezia Germwere, Crystal Jiang, Daniel Lee, Michaela Morse, Yueyilin Qi, Emily Ruan, Kevin Shen, Alistair Tang, Stephanie Wang, Melissa Warme and Laney Wolter are among the winning education exibitors this year at the State Fair. Students have individual exhibits in categories like "Agricultural Technology" and "Technology Education." Visit www.mnstatefair.org/competition/results.html for details. Add your student or staff news to this list by e-mailing pr@moundsviewschools.org.

Scholarship sends Mounds View student to Korea

August 4, 2010 -- Anna Pratt, a soon-to-be senior at Mounds View High School, spent six weeks studying in Korea this summer after the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded her with a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship. Pratt was selected for the scholarship from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants.

Irondale Girls' Golf state-bound

June 7, 2010 -- The Irondale girls’ golf team qualified for state competition (third time in four years), and will compete June 15 and 16 at Bunker Hills. Varsity Members = Michelle Kleckner, Gillian McDonald, Lindsey Brown, Laura Anderson, Lindsey Kueng and Kathryn Kirk. Coach = Jim Olson.

National Philosophy Slam winner

June 3, 2010 -- Highview Middle School eighth-grader Colin Catlin won fourth place in the national Kids Philosophy Slam recently. His "Is the pen mightier than the sword?" essay was selected from more than 6,000 entries to take one of the top spots in the eighth-grade division of the Slam competition.

Ms. Softball

June 2, 2010 -- Minnesota Minute Men, in cooperation of the Minnesota Twins announced recently that Mounds View High School's Rebekah Roth has been selected as a finalist for the Minnesota Ms. Softball 2010 Award. Her athleticism and dedication to the sport will be recognized at an award banquet at Target Field on June 20.

2010 District Spelling Bee Winners

June 2, 2010 -- The District-wide elementary school spelling bee winners for 2010 were announced recently. Turtle Lake third-grader Aarthi Vijayakumar, Turtle Lake fourth-grader Justin Duffy and Island Lake fifth grader Faith Kosek won first place titles. Second place winners include Island Lake third-grader Eric Palmer, Valentine Hills fourth-grader Charlie Jacob and Turtle Lake fifth-grader Ethan Gin. Third-grader Abdishakur Mohamed, of Valentine Hills, won third place along with Pinewood fourth-grader Isaac Her and Sunnyside fifth-grader Tyler Ollanketo. The following students won certificates of achievement: third-graders Scott Petty (Pinewood), Rowan Morgan (Bel Air) and Eden Wells (Sunnyside); fourth-graders Emily Manning (Bel Air), Zachary Oberpriller (Sunnyside) and Maya Quigley (Island Lake); fifth-graders Leah Damerow (Bel Air), Reem Khan (Valentine Hills) and Ben Polk (Pinewood).

Mounds View High School French students receive national recognition

June 2, 2010 -- Mounds View High School had two national winners on the Grand Concours National French Exam held this spring. Ayna Pirkuliyeva scored fifth nationally on the level two exam and Patrick Sullivan scored sixth in the nation on the level three exam. In addition, Joo Lee won a $700 travel stipend to a francophone country. For a list of French students were named state winners, please click here.

Students receive national recognition for Spanish test scores

May 24, 2010 -- More than 100 Irondale and Mounds View High School students attained national recognition for their performance on the 2010 National Spanish Exams earlier this year. A total of 478 District students took the online assessment and 114 students from both schools earned gold, silver or bronze medals. In addition, 128 students earned honorable mention recognition. The National Spanish Exams are the largest and most widely known exams of its kind with nearly 126,000 students participating in 2010 alone. Mounds View Public Schools students have a long history of high achievement on the National Spanish Exams which are administered each year in grades six through 12, and are sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. For a list of students recognized for high scores, please click here.

Principal of the Year

May 24, 2010 -- Edgewood Middle School principal Penny Howard was named Middle Level Principal of the Year recently by the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals. Edgewood teachers and staff celebrated Howard’s accomplishment with a surprise gathering before school in late May. The Superintendent, retired District staff members, teachers and parents gathered to applaud Howard for her more than 20 years of service at Mounds View Public Schools and her well-deserved award.

Irondale student featured in Sports Illustrated

May 19, 2010 -- Irondale senior Rob Wilhelm was featured in the May 17 issue of Sports Illustrated and has been featured recently in local television and print media as well. Click on the link below for details.

District students selected for Chinese immersion program

May 10, 2010 -- The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recently announced Mounds View High School students Sarah Birkholz and William Weightman, and Irondale High School student Muquxi La as National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship award winners. Birkholz and La were selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants for the scholarship - an intensive language program which provides an immersion learning of Chinese language and culture in China for six weeks in the summer of 2010.