Yearbook Survey

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Students - Please take time to fill out this survey for our yearbook.  The survery will have a dedicated page in the yearbook with the results.  It will be fun to see the results of the students at MJHS!

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Jessica Low

Nebo Education Foundation Gives Grants January 2015 - Jodi Partridge

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“The grant money will be used to order CPR manikins.  The manikins will provide students hands-on experience to practice the steps and techniques for administering CPR.  This will help students understand what it feels like to give compressions and breaths in real life. This practice will increase students’ chances of remembering how to administer CPR correctly and effectively in emergency situations.  I’m grateful for Nebo Foundations for providing this grant and helping my students to save lives!” exclaimed Jodi Partridge, health teacher at Mapleton Junior.

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Lana Hiskey

Nebo Education Foundation Gives Grants February 2015 - Sherrie Dunford

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Sherrie Dunford, guitar teacher at Mapleton Junior, said, “To have music stands that belong to the new guitar program at Mapleton Jr. High is such a great advantage for us.  This program in its fledgling year last year drew four rather smallish classes of students who wished to learn the guitar.  This year the classes are more than twice as large and are progressing nicely.  Having our own stands means not having to drag stands from other music rooms or having two classes need them at the same time.

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Lana Hiskey

HOPE Squad

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Monday the HOPE Squad made Valentines to hand out to the student body throughout the week.  Happy Valentines MJHS!

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Andrea Pond

US Synthetic visits MJHS

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Representatives from US Synthetic (based in Orem) came to present information on problem solving to the Intro to Information Technology class on Thursday. Their company focuses on a problem solving cycle that they call PDCA which is an adaptation of the scientific method. Students were ask to implement this cycle while creating replicas of a model, lego airplane. Teams tried to build as many planes as possible in three minutes, then evaluate what problems kept them from making more planes, and tried to eliminate those problems during the next building phase.

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Ranelle Harbaugh

Student of the Month - January

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Mapleton Jr. High School is pleased to announce the Students of the Month for January 2015. Each academic area selects one outstanding student per grade level to represent their department for student of the month. In order to be selected these students must show superior academic achievement along with exceptional citizenship. The MJHS students of the month were invited to a pizza party to celebrate this fantastic accomplishment. The students of the month for January are (listed by academic area):

 

CTE – Tucker Back, Cody Bailey, Kaden Call

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Andrea Pond

Art 2 Guest Artist

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Guest artist Ryan Woodward visited the Art 2 classes at MJHS today. Ryan works as an animator and storyboard artist. He shared examples of his work on various projects such as Thor 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 2, Cowboys and Aliens, and many more. He also demonstrated how to create animations on free apps. You can check out more of Ryan's work at: ryanwoodwardart.com.

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Joshua Hobbs