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On Nov. 24, the Marion Community Schools Board of School Trustees approved the continuation of e-learning Fridays through the rest of the 2020-21 school year calendar, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The board had previously approved e-learning Fridays for the first semester.
Marion Community Schools is adding two e-learning days to its calendar as we shift into the winter and holiday season. There will be no onsite classes on Monday, Nov. 23, and Tuesday, Nov. 24. (Thanksgiving break begins Wednesday, Nov. 25.)
The Marion Giants E-Sports team is headed into the state playoffs!
The Giants triumphed over the Wabash Apaches Super Smash Brothers team on Tuesday, Nov. 17, with a score of 14 to 5. The Giants’ Super Smash Brothers team finished the regular season and await the state playoff schedule announcement.
Congratulations to the team!
11/25/20 UPDATE: The Indiana Department of Health has classified Grant County in the red category, meaning there is an active and widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in our community.
The Grant County Health Department has asked that schools continue to restrict spectator attendance at school activities to parents and guardians only, up to two per student participant. No school events will be open to the public at this time.
Many events have been postponed or canceled due to quarantines here or at other participating schools.
The Giants e-sports team triumphed in the Rocket League match against the Wabash Apaches on Wednesday night.
Nate Small, Landin Ashbrooke, Derek Wright, Brian Nearon, and Jaylen Reed led Marion to the victory.
Congratulations to Coach Staton and his Rocket League team!
All of the Marion Giants E-Sports teams remain undefeated.
On Tuesday, the Marion Giants defeated the founders of Indiana high school e-sports, the Tipton Blue Devils Tuesday, in the Afena Federal Credit Union Giants E-Sports Arena.
In a legendary match of Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Tipton succumbed to the Giants’ fury shortly after the first match. The Marion Giants won both the singles and doubles matches with a final score of 19-0, remaining undefeated for the season.
The GIants take on the Madison-Grant Argylls on Oct. 27.
The Marion Giants E-Sports Team earned a season-opening victory, defeating the Scottsburg Warriors in Super Smash Brothers on Tuesday night.
The final score was 11-6.
Stay tuned as our Giant E-Sports Team takes on the Seeger Patriots in Rocket League on Wednesday evening.
You can watch the Giants gameplay at www.twitch.tv/giantesports.
This past summer, Marion Regional Career Center’s Information Technology, and Cyber Security Instructor Travis Hueston was one of only 25 educators across the country invited to attend the Computer Science Academy for teachers at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.
The Computer Science Academy is a unique professional development opportunity for advanced instructors about merging computer science topics in their courses along with the fusion of cybersecurity and advanced coding and programming.
Inside Indiana Business has put Marion Regional Career Center back in the spotlight, this time for our recent announcement that we have been selected to be an Amazon Future Engineer school.
>> Click here to read the full press release about this latest feature of our IT Academy
Marion Regional Career Center is pleased to announce that we have been selected as an Amazon Future Engineer school — a partnership between Amazon and Edhesive to improve access to computer science education in communities currently underrepresented in the technology field.