Four Mount Madonna School (MMS) high school students have been appointed to the Model United Nations (Model UN or MUN) Conference Executive Team for an upcoming, MMS-hosted regional MUN conference planned for February 11, 2023. Sophomores Ezze Farrazaino, Lagi Hunnicutt, Lucy Harris…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/4/2022, “Mount Madonna School brings CRISPR technology to classroom,” story and photos by Aric Sleeper. WATSONVILLE — High school students in the biomedical engineering class at Mount Madonna School in Watsonville recently conducted a gene editing experiment using CRISPR…
November 3, 2022: The Mount Madonna School’ (MMS) Homecoming Week festivities were a great success enjoyed by the whole school community. Following are two expressions of gratitude from MMS community members. Acknowledgement and Appreciation By Student Government Association President Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak, grade…
At New York’s Central Park Zoo, Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria, the hip-hip hippo, are best of friends. When Marty escapes, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited on…
Mariah Cohen, a senior student at Mount Madonna School (MMS) was recently named a student leader to the 2022-23 Youth for Environmental Action (YEA) team. Founded by the Santa Cruz County Office of Education in Fall of 2019, YEA was formed to…
Gilroy Life, Community Voices, 10/18/2022, “Focusing on Ways to End Racism is an Essential Endeavor,” by Irulan Faith Cockrum. Mount Madonna School commemorated its first International Day of Peace Sept. 21. Promoting peace and harmony within communities, people and the world is…
Students from the Mount Madonna School (MMS) Biomedical Engineering course recently conducted a gene editing experiment using authentic cutting-edge Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene editing technology. CRISPR is named after the DNA sequences that gave scientists a clue of…
Aptos Times, 10/15/2022, “Inspired to Take Action: Ending Racism and Building Peace,” by Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak. “Ending racism and building peace” is a cause that is very personal for me as a Latinx student of color and the founder of the Art and…
This week, Mount Madonna School (MMS) kindergarten, second and twelfth grade students visited Live Earth Farm in Watsonville, providing an opportunity for peer-to-peer mentoring, farm learning and for the youngest students, and increased opportunity of where food comes from. “Our year- long study…
Aptos Times, 10/1/2022, “Model United Nations Training Conference.” Mount Madonna School will host a one-day Model United Nations Training Conference on Oct. 8, with the goal to introduce Model UN to students, and encourage more schools to adopt this exceptional program. Read…
