Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in an online UIL Junior High Academic Meet at the beginning of February and brought home multiple medals and ribbons.<\/p>\n
Mount Pleasant Junior High earned 4 team awards. The 8th grade Music Memory Team of Tanner Marshall, Christian Johnson, Kate Ball, and Maleah Duenez took 1st place as a team. The 8th grade Editorial Writing team of Johnson, Ball, Jazlynn Juarez, and Diya Desai team won 2nd place overall. Johnson, Ball, Juarez, and Desai also took 3rd place as a team for 8th grade Ready Writing. And the 7th grade Editorial Writing team of Ava Fite, Alondra Ruiz, Brissia Alvarez, and Mallory Peel won 3rd place overall.<\/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. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n MPJH UIL coaches include Phillip Sweeden (Maps, Graphs and Charts), Karen Stayton (Dictionary Skills), Josh Miles (Music Memory), Windy Meurisse (Number Sense), Kendyl Bowers (Mathematics), Jared Erickstad (Social Studies), Launa McCord (Editorial Writing) and Randee Dyer (Ready Writing).<\/p>\n Photo: Mount Pleasant Junior High School UIL Meet participants<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in an online UIL Junior High Academic Meet at the beginning of February and brought home multiple medals and ribbons. Mount Pleasant Junior High earned 4 team awards. The 8th grade Music Memory Team of Tanner Marshall, Christian Johnson, Kate Ball, and Maleah Duenez took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","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\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEditorial Writing: Brissia Alvarez\u20144th place
\nReady Writing: Ava Fite\u20146th place<\/p>\n
\nEditorial Writing: Christian Johnson\u20143rd place; Kate Ball\u20144th place; Diya Desai\u20146th place
\nReady Writing: Jazlynn Juarez\u20143rd place; Diya Desai\u20146th place
\nMusic Memory: Maleah Duenez\u20141st place; Christian Johnson\u20142nd place; Tanner Marshall\u20143rd place<\/p>\n