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 […]
MSMS TAKE PRIZES AT BUSINESS COMPETITION
MSMS wishes to congratulate those who participated in the Future Business Leaders of America Northern District Competition in February! Along with MSMS student and state FBLA president Brianna Ladnier, all the students who competed were great representatives of MSMS! The results were: 1st place in Marketing– Sophia Ali, Calisa Henry, Devon Matheny1st place in Word Processing– […]
MSMS STEP TEAMS TAKE HOME PRIZES
The MSMS Blu Diamondz and Blu Knights strutted their stuff at the recent Back to Basics Black History Step and Dance Competition. The ladies of the Blue Diamondz stepped their way to first place and the the young men of the Blue Knights landed an impressive third. The event was held at Nissan Auditorium on […]
MSMS STUDENTS MEET WITH GOVERNOR BARBOUR
Twenty students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science recently had the chance to meet former Mississippi governor, Haley Barbour. Barbour was a featured speaker at Mississippi State University’s Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series. Barbour was governor of the Magnolia State from 2004-2012, and is a founding partner of the BGR Group.
TWO MSMS MOCK TRIAL TEAMS PROGRESS TO STATE
For the fifth year in a row, MSMS will send two teams to the state mock trial competition in Jackson, Mississippi. The following students argued their way onto state: Campbell Rolph, Claudia Vial, Emily Shy, Hayden Stokley, Kennedy Laporte, Mariana Strawn, Mariat Thankachan, Mari Lampkin, Nayan Chawlan, Reyan Grimes, Samuel Patterson, Ta’kiya Leach, and Tija […]