By Lisa Catterall Our schools will improve if they deliver quality arts education to all students. The students deserve nothing less. – James S. Catterall My office just became host to a tray of smiling, blinking robotic bees happily keeping me company…
KION News Channel 5/46.com, “High school students in Santa Cruz build Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles for Ocean Experiments,” by Melody Waintal. Mount Madonna School Engineering Club students built an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to explore the ocean floors of Catalina Island….
We were saddened to learn that Kamla Bhasin, a human being of kindness and courage, passed away on September 25. Bhasin, an Indian developmental feminist, poet, author and social scientist, was a great champion for love, equality, equity and the environment. MMS…
Mount Madonna School middle schoolers kicked off the year with fun and learning on a camping trip!
What does it take to design and build a submersible, water-tight instrument to explore the oceans? Last week, with their school trip to Catalina Island just 10 days away, Mount Madonna School (MMS) high school Engineering Club students gave up lunch periods,…
Sometimes an uplifting “ray of hope” can be found in the most unexpected of places, even when people are separated by continents, oceans – or a pandemic. Such was the experience last week, when Mount Madonna School (MMS) senior students engaged via…
By Lisa Catterall In the May 2021 issue of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, researchers at the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, which operates the Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island published the results of a study that may move…
Name, city of residence Oliver D. Mensinger, Soquel Grade you started at MMS Fourth grade What inspires you? I find philanthropists kind of inspiring. People who are working hard to help out those who need help more than we do. It is…
From civil rights champions who soar into space and shatter glass ceilings, to preserving indigenous traditions and advocating for farm workers; from conserving Earth’s precious resources to improving access to education, in recent months Mount Madonna School (MMS) lower school students have…
This week Mount Madonna School (MMS) tenth grade students are studying the chemistry and biology of bioluminescence, and learning how scientists explore the dark and deep ocean to discover more about where the ability to produce light fits into ocean ecosystems and…
