Staver Named WIAA Scholar Athlete

Sixteen senior girls and sixteen senior boys from Mercer to Darlington have been selected as recipients of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Scholar Athlete Award underwritten by Marshfield Clinic. The winners include the first ever female from Mineral Point High School to claim this prestigious honor, Sydney Staver. (Ryan McGuire, 2010, is the only other… Continue Reading Staver Named WIAA Scholar Athlete

MPHS 3rd Quarter Honor Roll

Mineral Point High School is proud to announce its honor roll for the 3rd Quarter of the 2016-17 school year. High Honors Freshmen: Justin Baehler, Wesley Berget, Grant Bossert, McKenna Bowers, Nicholas DuBois, Tessa Hanson, Isaac Lindsey, Bodhi Logueflower, Cody Pierce, Larry Steffes, Owen Stephenson, Morgan Vondra, Lily Wong. Sophomores: Michaela Acherman, Mara Aschliman, Karsten… Continue Reading MPHS 3rd Quarter Honor Roll

Board Celebrates Student Success

The Mineral Point School Board began its regular monthly meeting Monday with a celebration of recent student successes. (Scroll past the video for more article text) Gold medal winners in the SWAL math contest, the State Odyssey of the Mind team, State place winners in the Delta Kappa Gamma literary contest, and State FFA qualifiers… Continue Reading Board Celebrates Student Success

Doye Named to WSPRA Board of Directors

The Wisconsin School Public Relations Association has named Joelle Doye, Mineral Point Unified School District Communications Director, to its Board of Directors for a three year term. Other newly elected members include: Becky Backhaus, Creative Director, J.P. Cullen Timothy Brown, Middle/High School Principal, Kohler School District Emily Neubauer, Marketing and Communications Specialist, Racine Unified School… Continue Reading Doye Named to WSPRA Board of Directors

Pointer Podcast: Adventures in Bad Luck by Jadyn

Several 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders entered a writing contest recently. This extracurricular experience was facilitated by 5th grade teacher Lifka Bennett. One student, Jadyn, received multiple recognitions for her original story, Adventures in Bad Luck. You can read her award-winning story by clicking here. In addition, listen to Jadyn read aloud Adventures in Bad… Continue Reading Pointer Podcast: Adventures in Bad Luck by Jadyn

National Honor Society Celebrated

Mineral Point High School held its annual National Honor Society Induction Ceremony Wednesday, April 5 in the cafetorium. This year’s guest speaker was Dr. Dave Thomas, a 1967 graduate of MPHS and recently retired as an agriculture professor at UW-Madison. The evening is traditionally sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Kristin Staver is the NHS Advisor.… Continue Reading National Honor Society Celebrated

Renwick is Finalist for EdTech Leadership Award

Elementary Principal Matt Renwick has been named a 2017 Finalist for EdTech Digest’s School Leader Award. The mission of EdTech Digest is to tell the story of 21st-century education transformation. By sharing cool tools, fascinating interviews, relevant trends and voices from the field, they hope to inspire learners and leaders everywhere, to get workable technology solutions… Continue Reading Renwick is Finalist for EdTech Leadership Award