CEREMONY OF LIGHTS SPEAKERS 2016
Ceremony of Lights will be held on Sunday, August 6 at 6:30 pm. Ceremony of Lights is a special MSMS tradition in which the new junior class is officially inducted into the MSMS family. Traditionally, the ceremony surrounds the four ideals of MSMS: Scholarship, Service, Community and Creativity. Scholarship: Nathan Boggan, Class of 1990 Nathan […]
STARTING WITH SERVICE
On August 1st and 2nd, 2016, the 118 members of the newly inaugurated Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science spent several hours exploring the ideal of service. In partnership with United Way, students from MSMS visited every single school in the Columbus Municipal School District to offer their help to the schools’ teachers in getting […]
ANONYMOUS DONOR BRINGS TWO ADDITIONAL STUDENTS TO MSMS
An anonymous donation to the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science will make it possible for the school to admit two additional students into the MSMS Class of 2018. The donor has pledged $44,000 over the course of two years to the school. The donor has already supplied $22,000 of the amount. Due to a […]
MSMS ALUMNUS TERRENCE JOHNSON FEATURED ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
A graduate of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science was recently featured on National Public Radio. Terrence Johnson, who graduated from MSMS in 2014, was the subject of Our Land, a special series by NPR special correspondent Melissa Block. You can read and listen to the story about the Ole Miss junior and Noxubee […]
MSMS MU ALPHA THETA MATH TOURNAMENT
On Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 600 of Mississippi’s top high school mathematicians took part in the annual mu-alpha-theta math tournament hosted by the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. “They do win medals and trophies, but the big thing for us really is not about the trophies, it’s about getting people excited about mathematics,” said […]