Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in the recent UIL East Texas Junior High Academic Meet in Texarkana and brought home multiple medals and ribbons. The 7th graders placed in seven events while the 8th graders placed in eight.

Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in the recent UIL East Texas Junior High Academic Meet in Texarkana and brought home multiple medals and ribbons. The 7th graders placed in seven events while the 8th graders placed in eight.

Mount Pleasant Junior High earned 5 team awards.  The 7th grade Editorial Writing Team of Sophie Greco, Zoe Zittel and Amariya Miller placed 1st as a team at the Meet. The 7th grade Science Team of Luke Muskrat, Bri Davis, and Jillian Jetton earned 3rd place as a team.  The 8th grade Social Studies Team of Juan Cigarroa, Javier Vazquez, and Vanessajane Bayna took 1st place as a team.  The 8th grade Editorial Writing Team of Chelsea Maldonado, Vanessajane Bayna, and Osiris Mojica took 1st place as a team.  And the 8th grade Dictionary Skills Team of Merlin Cardona, Amy Vazquez, and Madeline Plascencia earned 3rd place as a team.

Numerous students earned individual medals:

7th Grade
Chess Puzzle Solving: Daniel Mejia–4th place
Music Memory: Orion Senence–2nd place; Sonia Sustatia–6th place
Editorial Writing: Sophie Greco–3rd place; Zoe Zittel–4th place; Amariya Miller–5th place
Prose: Bri Davis–4th place
Spelling: Angelina Hernandez–6th place
Ready Writing: Sophie Greco–4th place
Science: Luke Muskrat–6th place

8th Grade
Dictionary Skills: Merlin Cardona–6th place
Editorial Writing: Chelsea Maldonado–1st place; Vanessajane Bayna–3rd place
Maps, Graphs and Charts: Elijah Rider–5th place
Prose: Katherine Phelan–6th place
Science: Vanessajane Bayna–6th place
Ready Writing: Chelsea Maldonado–3rd place
Social Studies: Juan Cigarroa–1st place; Javier Vazquez–4th place; Vanessajane Bayna–6th place
Spelling: Eric Taylor–2nd place

“Our students have been practicing before and after school with their coaches for the last several months,” said MPJH Assistant Principal Todd Daniel.  “It is always great to see how excited the students are before, during, and after the competition.  It never fails that they will talk about doing even more events the next year because they had such a good experience competing academically against surrounding schools.”

Photo: Mount Pleasant Junior High School District UIL Meet Participants