Braving wind, cold weather and at times rain, AP Biology students from Mount Madonna School (MMS) met researchers at Elkhorn Slough near Moss Landing last Friday to help count birds, including Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, White-tailed Kites, Blue Herons, and godwits.
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Mount Madonna School’s Model United Nations (MUN) Club participated in its first meet of the 2011-2012 school year on November 5-6 at Stanford University. Student participants in the meet were: Alyssa Feskanin, Lena Wiley, Pedro Aguirre, Renata Massion and Tobin Mitchell, 9th grade; Preethi Balagani, 10th grade; Amber Zeise and Kavi Duvvoori, 11th grade; Lulu Morell-Haltom and Quincy Mitchell, 12th grade.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/11/11, “CCS D-V Girls Volleyball: Hawks soar over PCS,” by Julie Jag. Photos by Shmuel Thaler. Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_19312826
MercuryNews.com, 11/10/11, Girls Volleyball. Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/high-school-sports/ci_19312711
From aluminum to indium, hydrogen, plutonium and copernicum, eighth grade students at Mount Madonna School represented each of the 118 chemical elements this week – in a ‘Periodic Table of Cupcakes!’
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/3/2011, “Ota solid for Hawks in win,” by Julie Jag. Photos by Dan Coyro. Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19253266?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
The Sawubona Project video can be viewed on YouTube. Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koQzwDPv0bc. Sawubona is a project of Mount Madonna School’s Values in World Thought program. Values is a two-year curriculum, which culminated in a two-week Learning Journey to South Africa for 16 Mount Madonna School juniors in June 2011.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/1/2011, Local Roundup, “Mount Madonna volleyball sweeps Trinity.” Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19237140?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/2/2011, Volleyball update. Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19245227?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
Gazing out from the stage in the school’s Assembly Room, fifteen second grade students stood and collectively asked the assembled audience some objective questions: “What if you only had one meal a day, could you be happy? Could you concentrate in school? Probably not,” they answered. “Your stomach would ache, your head would hurt and your heart would be broken.”
