MSMS STUDENTS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY RUSSIAN ABROAD
COLUMBUS — Two Mississippi School for Math and Science students will study Russian in the former Soviet Union this summer after winning $7,000 scholarships sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Hillary Gerber and Sydney (Sam) Matrisciano, both 17, were chosen to participate in the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, which sends students abroad to […]
2017 AWARD WINNERS
Braeden Foldenhauer is this year’s winner of the Vel Anthony Award. The recipients of the Spirit of MSMS Awards are: Hannah Craft, Jax Dallas, Vivia Davis, Lilian Fulgham, Calissa Henry, John Howell, Haley Hsu, Tija Johnson, McKenzie Jone, Gary Nguyen, Leah Pettit, Reagan Poston, Caleb Robinson, Harpreet Singh, Jack Sparkman and Rachel Vance. The new […]
COLLEGE REVEAL 2017
On Monday, May 1, 2017, the MSMS Class of 2017 told the world their college plans in this year’s College Reveal. The students spent all day wearing MSMS tshirts and polos over the shirts from the colleges and universities they plan to attend in the fall. Then, as a student body, they shed their high […]
TALES FROM THE CRYPT 2017
The 2017 Tales From the Crypt performance has come and gone. Nearly 2,000 people from all over the world attended this year’s four performances and $6,000 was raised for charity. Read Commercial Dispatch Coverage of Tales From the Crypt here. All About Tales · Featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” May 25, 2015 – http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/17/400363343/through-performance-mississippi-students-honor-long-forgotten-locals […]
MSMS INSTRUCTOR PLACES IN TEACHER OF THE YEAR PROGRAM
Chuck Yarborough, U.S. history teacher at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus, has placed first alternate in the statewide Teacher of the Year program for the 2016-17 school year. (This story is an expert from the Commercial Dispatch click here to read more). Yarborough was among four finalists selected by the Mississippi Department […]
MSMS STUDENTS TRIUMPH AT RUSSIAN CONTEST
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science students took top honors in the Olympiad of Spoken Russian, held at Rhodes College in Memphis April 6. The contest is a unique event among language competitions and tests the most difficult aspect of language acquisition, speaking. In the four parts of the event, contestants describe in Russian themselves, […]
MSMS CHESS TEAM BRINGS HOME TOP PRIZE
The MSMS chess team–seniors Braeden Foldenauer, and Andy Zhao, and juniors Spencer Bolhuis, William Johnson, Gary Nguyen, and Daniel Smothers–traveled to Starkville Saturday to compete in the 2017 Mississippi Scholastic Chess Association state team tournament. Teams from all areas of the state were there, but as the tournament entered the fifth and final round, three […]
MSMS HOSTS LATIN CONFERENCE
On the grassy field outside the Pohl gymnasium on Mississippi University for Women’s campus Friday, a group of teenagers encircled a handful of their peers. The teenage “gladiators” in the center of the ring each had a brightly colored balloon tied around one ankle and were frantically beating their opponents with equally brightly colored pool […]
MSMS STUDENTS STACK AWARDS AT MMSC
MSMS racked up EIGHT awards at this year’s Mississippi Model Security Council. During the MMSC, students from across the state act as mock-delegates who represent different countries. The students debate and negotiate to best position their countries and the world at large. The group is sponsored by MSMS social science instructor, Julie Heintz. Caleb Eubanks […]
MSMS STUDENTS WIN GOLD MEDAL FOR NATIONAL GERMAN EXAM
MSMS seniors Alex Leise and Daniel Cieslinski recently learned that they both are winners of National German Exam Gold Medals. Leise and Cieslinski both scored within the upper 94th percentile of the 20,000 students who took this year’s exam. Both are students of Lori LeVar Pierce’s German class. According to the NGE press release: The […]