LORI PIERCE LEADS TRAINING FOR MISSISSIPPI WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS
In today’s society, where more than 6,500 languages are spoken, the ability to speak more than one tongue provides both a social advantage and a cultural opportunity. Being bilingual in a global society enables individuals to build bridges between diverse communities and overcome cultural divides. On Thursday, July 27, the Mississippi School for Mathematics and […]
2017 COLLEGE VIEW RECAP
The Mississippi State Board of Education recently recognized the 2017 state finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) Program. PAEMST is the highest recognition that K-12 mathematics or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Shae Koenigsberger, who teaches Precalculus, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus […]
MSMS TEACHER, SHAE KOENIGSBERGER, EARNS NATIONAL RECOGNITION
The Mississippi State Board of Education recently recognized the 2017 state finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) Program. PAEMST is the highest recognition that K-12 mathematics or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Shae Koenigsberger, who teaches Precalculus, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus […]
TWELVE MSMS STUDENTS NAMED NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
COLUMBUS, Miss.–Earlier this week, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation released the names of those students across the nation who qualified as National Merit Semifinalists. Twelve students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science received this incredible honor: Christina Comino, daughter of Eva and John Comino of Hattiesburg Aidan Dunkelberg, son of Kim Whitehead and […]
REMEMBERING TOGETHER
On Sunday, September 10, 2017 students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, along with their Mississippi University for Women colleagues, gathered at the main gazebo on campus for a ceremony in remembrance of the tragedy of 9/11. This fifth annual ceremony entitled, Together in Unity, was conceived of and organized by Goen Hall […]
MSMS AND MUW WORK TOGETHER MAKING MISSISSIPPI’S MATH TEACHERS TRUE CHAMPS
COLUMBUS, Mississippi — The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, in partnership with the Mississippi University for Women, is sharpening the skills of the state’s mathematics teachers. For two weeks, 66 kindergarten-through-eighth-grade teachers, representing more than a dozen different Mississippi school districts and more than two dozen individual schools, have taken part in CHAMPS (Creating […]
MSMS WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHER CHOSEN FOR STARTALK PROGRAM
Margaret Mary Henry, Russian teacher at the Mississippi School for Math and Science, is studying at Middlebury College this summer in a special course funded by the U.S. government. The by-invitation course, from July 12-23 at the renowned language school in Middlebury, Vermont, focuses on the methodology of Startalk, a program launched in 2006 that […]
MSMS SUMMER ENRICHMENT CAMP 2017 – HIGH SCHOOL EDITION
The 2017 MSMS Summer Enrichment Camp was a resounding success. Eighty-nine students from all over the state and country spent the past week living, learning, and playing at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus, Mississippi. Students engaged in leadership activities, participated in fun and stimulating classes, and generally had a good time. […]
SUMMER ENRICHMENT CAMP: BLAST OFF
At the Mississippi School for Math and Science students are enjoying a class called Blast Off. The class is for students who are interested in Newton’s law applied to rockets.The student’s use mathematical tools to measure how high the rockets flew. “ We are learning the history of rockets and we are also talking about […]
SUMMER ENRICHMENT CAMP: THE MATH OF MONEY
Students at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science Summer Enrichment Camp are learning that money and math go hand in hand. In the class, students are playing games to educate kids on how to spend and make money efficiently. “I am teaching this class because I believe that students should know how to become […]