Twelve All-Region Choir students from Mount Pleasant High School participated in Pre-Area auditions on Tuesday, November 14 at the Mount Pleasant High School Performing Arts Complex, performing 4 selections for the audition. Eight have advanced to Area auditions in January including senior Hope Powell (3rd chair 2nd Alto), junior Kristina Tidwell (2nd chair 2nd Soprano), [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School chapter of FFA competed at the Paris District Leadership Development Event (LDE) held at Texas A&M—Commerce on Monday, November 6. MPHS advanced to the Area contest in two events. The team of seniors Lakyn Fortenberry, Reese Hill, Cheyenne King, and junior Jay’cee Alvarez advanced to Area in Agriculture Advocacy. In [...]
Fifty-seven Mount Pleasant High School students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) at a candlelight ceremony on Thursday, November 16 in the MPHS auditorium. To be a member of NTHS, a student must be enrolled in a Career and Technical Education (CTE) class, meet a set cumulative weighted GPA, be a member [...]
Mount Pleasant High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter traveled to Dallas to participate in the Mavericks’ annual Business Marketing Day on Wednesday, November 8. Students toured American Airlines Center and heard presentations from marketing, sales and public relations officials with the Mavericks. Students had the opportunity to learn about different careers available [...]
Mount Pleasant High School Cosmetology instructor, Aleshia Rivera-Palomino, was recently honored with the TEACH. SHARE. INSPIRE. award from the Texas Cosmetology Educators. At the awards presentation, Rivera-Palomino was introduced with, “The 2023 Texas Cosmetology Educators TEACH. SHARE. INSPIRE. award honors a teacher who demonstrates excellence in every sense of the word. The 2023 awardee is [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Christmas King and Queen are seniors Daniel Adame and Johana Perales. Adame and Perales will represent MPHS in the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club Christmas parade on Saturday, December 2 at 6:00 p.m.
Mount Pleasant High School Speech and Debate competed in the Regional Congressional Debate tournament at the Region VIII Education Service Center on Thursday, November 9. For the second year in a row, Mount Pleasant was the only 5A school competing. So the competition was an intrasquad battle for who would earn the top three places [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Goin’ Gold Band bid farewell to their 2023 show, Wednesday, at the US Bands Southwestern Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Monday, November 6. The competition featured 22 bands from Texas and Louisiana. After prelims, the Goin’ Gold Band won their group by more than four points and went [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) classes recently went hog wild during a lesson on the Integumentary System, or the outer layer of the body made up of the skin, hair, nails, and associated glands. The students squealed with joy when they learned the lab assignment involved pigs’ feet instead of each [...]
Mount Pleasant High School seniors in the Health Science Practicum II-Medical Assistant class recently demonstrated their intramuscular injection skills using syringes and oranges. Successfully performing the skill will allow them to give injections at field sites including Titus Regional Medical Center and other medical sites in Mount Pleasant during their clinical rotations. In addition to [...]
