The 20th Annual Santa Cruz County High School Poetry Competition Reading will take place on Monday, May 20 at 6:30pm at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education.
More than 300 high school students from all over the County entered the competition, and nine Mount Madonna School students have had works selected for the final anthology of 50 published poems, with three Mount Madonna School students receiving honorable mentions.
The ninth grade class recently returned from a Learning Journey they call “Flow with Water” or Yeyeco Ica Atl in the language of the Pimungan people, the first human occupants of California’s Santa Catalina Island. The class went to Catalina Island off the coast of Long Beach and joined the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program (CELP) for a week of outdoor field studies, leadership challenges, and personal growth.
For the first time in 11 years, Mount Madonna School’s boys varsity volleyball team has emerged as the DII Central Coast Section (CCS) Champions!
Mount Madonna School’s (Mount Madonna School) boys varsity volleyball team has received the Central Coast Section (CCS) highest academic honor by the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF): “2013 CCS Scholastic Championship Team Award.”
Enduring 2600 years as one of the world’s most widely-read classics, Ramayana! tells the story of Prince Ram, who, banished from his kingdom, leaves with his true love Sita and brother Lakshman to find a new home.
San Jose Mercury News, 5/15/2013, “CCS boys volleyball: Mt. Madonna tops Leigh for Division II title,” by Darren Sabedra. Photos by Nhat Meyer, Bay Area News Group. Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/high-school-sports/ci_23244810/ccs-boys-volleyball-mt-madonna-tops-leigh-division
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/15/2013, “CCS Boys Volleyball: Mount Madonna wins first championship since 2002,” story by Julie Jag. Photos by Shmuel Thaler. Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_23245482/ccs-boys-volleyball-mount-madonna-wins-first-championship?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
MercuryNews.com, 5/15/2013, “Mt. Madonna Beats Leigh 3-1 Division II Boys Volleyball,” photos by Nhat Meyer, Bay Area News Group. View the photos: http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/05/14/mt-madonna-beats-leigh-3-1-division-ii-boys-volleyball/
India is a place of dynamic diversity in landscape and lifestyle. It is not the vast disparities of wealth, which can be found in our own country, but the contrasts between the environments that struck me. The landscape shifted from agrarian countryside to a skyline dominated by looming high rises still clasped in their scaffolding. I saw old men wearing traditional Indian clothing standing next to people in suits talking on their cellphones. India presented many contrasts between archaic and modern ways of living. Witnessing people living in so many different ways brought to the forefront of my mind the question, “What is the best way to live?” – Bryson Smith, Mount Madonna School class of 2013
The senior class’ concluding reflections about their recent Learning Journey to India are now posted on the Bodhicitta Project blog. Read more at: http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/mtmadonna/
Three Mount Madonna School students, all dancers with Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre (SCBT), recently participated in the Regional Dance America (RDA) Pacific Region Festival of Dance in Phoenix, Arizona. The students, fifth grader Milana Beck, sixth grader Riley Butler, and eighth grader Amelia Busenhart, represented SCBT at this showcase event, and Busenhart, a member of SCBT’s senior company, performed in a company ensemble at the festival.
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