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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Mount Pleasant Junior High earned 5 team awards.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The 8th grade Social Studies Team of Juan Cigarroa, Javier Vazquez, and Vanessajane Bayna took 1st place as a team.\u00a0 The 8th grade Editorial Writing Team of Chelsea Maldonado, Vanessajane Bayna, and Osiris Mojica took 1st place as a team.\u00a0 And the 8th grade Dictionary Skills Team of Merlin Cardona, Amy Vazquez, and Madeline Plascencia earned 3rd place as a team.<\/p>\n
Numerous students earned individual medals:<\/p>\n
7th Grade<\/strong> 8th Grade<\/strong> \u201cOur students have been practicing before and after school with their coaches for the last several months,\u201d said MPJH Assistant Principal Todd Daniel.\u00a0 \u201cIt is always great to see how excited the students are before, during, and after the competition.\u00a0 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo: Mount Pleasant Junior High School District UIL Meet Participants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChess Puzzle Solving: Daniel Mejia–4th place
\nMusic Memory: Orion Senence–2nd place; Sonia Sustatia–6th place
\nEditorial Writing: Sophie Greco–3rd place; Zoe Zittel–4th place; Amariya Miller–5th place
\nProse: Bri Davis–4th place
\nSpelling: Angelina Hernandez–6th place
\nReady Writing: Sophie Greco–4th place
\nScience: Luke Muskrat–6th place<\/p>\n
\nDictionary Skills: Merlin Cardona–6th place
\nEditorial Writing: Chelsea Maldonado–1st place; Vanessajane Bayna–3rd place
\nMaps, Graphs and Charts: Elijah Rider–5th place
\nProse: Katherine Phelan–6th place
\nScience: Vanessajane Bayna–6th place
\nReady Writing: Chelsea Maldonado–3rd place
\nSocial Studies: Juan Cigarroa–1st place; Javier Vazquez–4th place; Vanessajane Bayna–6th place
\nSpelling: Eric Taylor–2nd place<\/p>\n