Students Receive President’s Environmental Youth Award for Shark Conservation Project
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized the 2019-20 fifth grade class at Mount Madonna School (MMS) with the President’s Environmental Youth Award for working to resolve threats […]
Kindness is Everything, A Podcast with Anitha Rao-Robinson: Kindness is Saving Blue Whales Together
Kindness is Everything, a podcast hosted by Anitha Rao-Robinson, Episode 23, June 27, 2021, “Kindness is Saving Blue Whales Together,” an interview with Mount Madonna School’s 2020-21 fifth grade class […]
Growing Up in Santa Cruz: Fuel for the Future and Catalina Island by Lisa Catterall
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, June 2021, Teacher’s Desk, “Fuel for the Future and Catalina Island,” by Lisa Catterall. In the May 2021 issue of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, […]
STEAM Action: Sixth Graders Build and Race Model Solar Cars
During the final couple weeks of the 2020-21 school year, Mount Madonna School (MMS) sixth grade students designed, built and raced small model solar cars. Most years, this popular and […]
A Dedication to Technique and Training: Senior Octavio Moreno Medals in CCS Shot Put Competition
Octavio Moreno, a Mount Madonna School (MMS) class of 2021 graduate, placed fourth in the shot put with a throw of 49 feet and 3.5 inches in the Central Coast […]
Aptos Times: Mount Madonna’s Top Students
Aptos Times, 6/15/2021, “Mount Madonna’s Top Students.” Read story
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna’s Octavio Moreno has Historic Outing in Shot Put
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 6/21/2021, “Mount Madonna’s Octavio Moreno has historic outing in shot put | CCS Boys Track & Field Championships,” story by Gordon Kass, photos by Shmuel Thaler. Read […]
Ramayana! The Movie (2021): Now Available to Purchase or Stream
From Stage Show to Screen, Mount Madonna School Reenvisions Performing Arts, its Distinctive Production, and Utilizes its 375-Acre Campus for Filming Amid a pandemic year when live stage shows were […]
Honoring Excellence: Students Receive Memorial, Academic and Pillar Awards – 2021
The Jivanti Rutansky Memorial Award In honor of Jivanti’s memory, the Mount Madonna School faculty give one high school student and one middle school student an award in her name […]
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna Setter Savannah Cambell Signs with Johnson & Wales University
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 6/15/2021, “Mount Madonna setter Savannah Cambell signs with Johnson & Wales University; Helped Hawks win CCS, NorCal and CIF state titles in ’19.” Read more
