On Saturday, March 11, the Mid-Prairie Individual Events Speech team competed at North Scott High School for the Iowa High School Speech Association’s Individual Event State Speech Contest. Of 16 entries, 14 Mid-Prairie events received Division 1 ratings, and six of those events are nominated to perform at the Iowa High School Speech Association’s Individual Events All-State Festival on Monday, March 27 at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Haydon Bailey: Division 1 ratings in Solo Acting and Solo Musical Theatre. Bailey is nominated to perform both of his events at the IHSSA Individual Events All-State Festival. Jacob Carrillo: Division 1 rating in Solo Improvisation. Division 2 rating in Solo Acting. Kenadi Fay: Division 1 rating in Storytelling and After Dinner Speaking. Harlie Gehling: Division 1 rating in Poetry and Radio News. Gehling is nominated to perform her Poetry event at the IHSSA Individual Events All-State Festival. Isadora Goode: Division 1 rating in Original Oratory. Goode is nominated to perform her event at the IHSSA Individual Events All-State Festival. Jack Greiner: Division 1 rating in Solo Musical Theatre and Solo Improvisation. Greiner is nominated to perform both of his events at the IHSSA Individual Events All-State Festival. Logan McClellen: Division 1 rating in Storytelling. Daniel Rodgers: Division 1 rating in Reviewing. Division 2 rating in Poetry. Caroline Schrader: Division 1 rating in Solo Acting. Avery Slaubaugh: Division 1 in Solo Musical Theatre. Haydon Bailey and Jack Greiner are two of 16 students across the state of Iowa participating in IHSSA Individual Events that are nominated as double performers at the All-State Festival. At least two of three judges in each performer's center at State Contest must nominate a student for them to qualify for All-State. Participants in the IHSSA All-State Individual Events Festival represent the top 5% of all IE participants across the state of Iowa. Mid-Prairie's Speech Coaches are Christine Meader and Lisa Helmuth. #mphawks

We are thrilled to already have many businesses lined up, but we still have room if you would like to participate! This is an excellent opportunity to educate our students about a variety of careers. Contact Erin Cavanagh at ecavanagh@mphawks.org to join us! #mphawks

Congratulations to MPMS March Staff Member of the Month, Mrs. Allen! Thanks for all you do for our students! #mphawks

Congratulations to Mid-Prairie Middle School's March Students of the Month! Keep up the great work! #mphawks

MP Prom Fundraiser Webstore is now open! Store closes 3/21 and items will be back 4/6. #mphawks https://stores.teamelitesports.com/mid_prairie_prom/shop/home

Best of luck to the Mid-Prairie Individual Events Speech team as they travel to North Scott High School on Saturday! They will be competing in the Iowa High School Speech Association's State Individual Events contest. Competing in two events each are: Haydon Bailey, Jacob Carrillo, Kenadi Fay, Harlie Gehling, Jack Greiner and Daniel Rodgers. Competing in one event each are: Isadora Goode, Logan McClellen, Caroline Schrader and Avery Slaubaugh. #mphawks

Mid-Prairie schools will be on Spring Break from March 13th - March 17th. Enjoy your break, and see you on Monday, March 20th!

Check out this week's Golden Hawks At A Glance! #mphawks https://youtu.be/t01_Hql-hOo

MPHS Families: It is time for 9 -12th grade families to sign up for a spring Parent/Teacher conference with your child's seminar teacher. This year conferences will be Tuesday, March 28th and Monday, April 3rd. Our goal for these conferences is to have parents, students, and seminar advisors on the same page with the student's potential schedule for next year by looking at what they requested. We want students to attend the conference, too, so please schedule a time that works around their schedules. Note: A couple teachers have conflicts and will reach out to their seminar students/parents if that is the case. Schedules for teachers will be posted outside their door in case there is another teacher you would like to meet with other than your students seminar teacher. You can look and see when other teachers will be available to chat. Please sign up by next Wednesday, March 22nd. To sign up, please sign into your parent PowerSchool account and the link can be found on the left hand side. After clicking on "Parent Teacher Conferences" there will be an option with two days listed. You can sign up by entering your email. If you have other students you want to schedule a conference for, you can switch to their account by clicking on their name at the upper left hand corner. Senior advisors will be sending out a separate email. You will not be using powerschool to sign up for senior conferences, rather a document that they will send. Please contact Chuck Banks, cbanks@mphawks.org or 319-646-6091, if you have questions.

Mrs. Puttmann used a variation of hexagonal thinking (an octagon!) in Algebra II to practice current material and link it to prior material. Excellent retrieval practice!

Congratulations are in order! Congratulations to Gabi Robertson for her Reporter’s Scrapbook advancing to the State FFA competition. Also congratulations to Brynn Younge for being selected as an alternate for State with her public speaking, and to Elliott Debler and Greta Sieren’s Secretary’s Book being selected as an alternate for state. Great job! #mphawks

Congratulations to MPHS Student of the Week for March 6-10, Adrian Sanchez Reyes! Adrian was nominated by Mrs. Baker, "Adrian works very hard every day in Geometry. He does an excellent job of explaining his ideas and helping other students grasp key concepts. He is always smiling and willing to tackle hard problems and proofs with enthusiasm. He is a very enjoyable student to have in class and a friend to all his peers." Great work, Adrian! #mphawks

Check out today's episode of School News from MP-East! #mphawks https://youtu.be/O6-B-oCjWYw

Check out this week's Golden Hawks at a Glance! #mphawks https://youtu.be/WCQtLDtt9YE

Mid-Prairie Track Webstore is now open! Store closes 3/8 and items will be back 3/24. #mphawks https://stores.teamelitesports.com/mid_prairie_track/shop/home

Our 8th grade students will be participating in the Financial Literacy Fair through Kirkwood on April 14th. They are in need of volunteers to assist with the event. If you are interested or know of a community member that is, please click on the volunteer link at the bottom of the attached flyer. Thanks for considering! #mphawks

In sixth grade math, students have been solving one-step equations. One way to practice this skill was to solve Emoji Equations! #mphawks

Today Miss Ericha’s preschool class celebrated Global Rare Disease Day by learning about what makes us the same as and different than people living with rare diseases. A friend in the classroom brought pictures and items to show about his life, brought his favorite snack, and read a story about how we are all alike even with our differences. #mphawks

More than 350,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur in the US each year. Prompt bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use greatly increase survival rates. Staff at the High School have been learning about recognizing and responding to a cardiac emergency with the assistance of ProjectADAM affiliates from UIHC. #mphawks

Today MP East celebrated Mr. Mike's last day with a send off. Thank you for 32 years of service you will be missed!