James Kelly captured first place in MMI Preparatory School’s annual Spanish II Piñata contest. Kelly, the son of James and Chris Kelly of Mountaintop, won the contest for his rendition of Argentina soccer star Lionel Messi’s jersey. Gregory Leonard, the son of Gregory and Karen Leonard of Hazle Township, placed second for his Venezuelan Devil.…
MMI Preparatory School senior Alexander Kline and junior Andrellie Puntiel received Honorable Mentions in the Scholastic Writing Awards competition. Kline, the son of Dr. Gerard and Cathy Kline of Mountaintop, won in the Critical Essay category for his piece entitled “The Four Frankensteins – Character Duplication and the Gothic Doppelganger in Frankenstein.” Puntiel, the daughter…
Senior Alyssa Sweda and sophomore Katherine Lewandowski tied for first place as MMI Preparatory School’s “Best of the Best” for the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. As part of the biannual competition, 10th and 12th grade students delivered presentations during an all-school assembly. Sweda’s presentation focused on Henri Bendel, while Lewandowski discussed the…
MMI Preparatory School received a $500 grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation that will be used toward the purchase an X-Carve machine for the school’s science department. Liberty Petroleum Distributors nominated the school for the grant. The X-Carve is a multi-axis milling machine that can automatically carve very detailed pieces from a variety of materials, including…
Fifty of MMI Preparatory School’s 75 student competitors qualified for the Pennsylvania FBLA State Leadership Conference during the recent Regional Leadership Conference competition. The top five students in each test event advance to states and the top two students or teams in each performance event advance to the state competition, which will be held April…
MMI Preparatory School sophomore Katherine Lewandowski captured first place in the District 11 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Voice of Democracy Audio-Essay Scholarship Competition for her essay on this year’s theme, “Why My Vote Matters.” Lewandowski is the daughter of Nancy and James Lewandowski of Mountaintop. For the competition, students recorded an original three-to-five-minute essay…
Three Valley View High School students qualified to participate in the PMEA District 9 Band festival held at Pittston Area High School. Pictured below from left to right, Mia Mercatili placed 3rd on Clarinet 2 and will be moving on to PMEA Region 4 Band in March, Beatrice Chindemi placed 3rd on Trombone 3, and…
The Valley View History Club recently raised $500 to help finance programs for veterans at the Gino Merli Veterans Center in Scranton. The money was raised through a high school dress down day. From left to right Chris Mendicino, Principal; Jade Horvick, Nicole Zeiss, History Club advisor; Madison Kuzdro; Nina Grushinski; James Miller, Gino Merli Veteran Center;…
Groundhog day is tomorrow and we all have our fingers crossed that Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow! This celebration of predicting whether or not winter will last 6 weeks longer began back in the 1800s right here in Pennsylvania. Every single year, Americans wait to see Punxsutawney Phil emerging from his burrow. Groundhog day is…
Winter hit hard this week with temperatures dropping into the negatives! Even though it is starting to warm up a bit, we should not bid adieu to those extremely cold temps. We still have 37 days until Spring and we all know it stays cold way past that. Temperatures may be dropping but that doesn’t…