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Marion High School / Marion Regional Career Center students collected many top awards at last weekend’s Business Professionals of America Regional Leadership Contest and will advance to the state level.

In fact, the Giants swept the top three places in one subject competition, Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications, with Lucia Persinger, an MHS junior, earning first place, senior Cooper Spencer in second, and sophomore Brandie Jo Moneer in third. The top five finishers in each subject go on to compete at the state level competition. 

The regular meeting of the Marion Community Schools Board of School Trustees that was set for Dec. 10, 2019, has been canceled.

The next meeting will be on Dec. 17.

This holiday season, as carols tell of a special star that shone long ago, Marion High School’s state-of-the-art planetarium will put on a special show that explores the wonders of the night sky. 

The public is invited to MHS for “Seasonal Stargazing: Winter and Season of Lights”. Showings will be as follows:

Students from Marion Regional Career Center’s award-winning Cybersecurity and Information Technology Academy recently placed in the top five in a cybersecurity competition at Purdue University.

Four MRCC students, Hunter Butz, Tyler Hunter, Robert Smith, and Jack White, traveled to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus for the cybersecurity encounters workshop and challenge. During the workshop students learned different aspects of cybersecurity, including virtualization, web vulnerability challenges, forensics, and they participated in different cybersecurity challenges.

WBAT 1400 AM's Multimedia Director Clay Winowiecki focused on the #RedForEd movement in his Grant County Forum podcast this week. He talked with Marion Community Schools Superintendent Brad Lindsay and Marion Teachers Association President Scott Simpson.

>> You can listen here 

Here’s a look at the schedule for special winter and holiday programs around the district. (NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, our school holiday programs are in general for students’ family, friends, and other guests, due to limited space. Events that are open to the public are noted.)

LITTLE GIANTS PRESCHOOL

All Little Giants holiday programs will take place at the school building where a student attends classes regularly: 

The Marion High School JROTC Raider Team traveled to Molena, Ga, earlier this month to face off against the best teams from across the country at the All-Army JROTC Raider National Championship. There they sought to retain their title as the National Champions in the small school category. At the end of a grueling day of competition, the Giants fell short of the title because of a tie-breaker in the scoring, thus becoming the Runner-Up National Champions.

¡Están invitados!

Una noche para familia de estudiantes que hablan inglés como segundo idioma.

Cuando y donde:
Jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2019
5 a 6:30 p.m. en la cafetería
de la Escuela Intermedia Justice (Justice Intermediate School), 720 N. Miller Ave., Marion

¡Tendremos postres, juegos y música!

Venga y conozca a los que están aquí para ayudar a su hijo a tener éxito en el aprendizaje del inglés. ¡Traiga sus preguntas y trataremos de responderlas!

On Nov. 19, educators from throughout the state of Indiana will be attending Red for Public Ed Action Day, a rally at the Indiana Statehouse. This rally is meant to communicate to our legislators the serious need for more financial and other support for public education and the children we serve. Public education has an important mission, which is to serve all the children of all the people. Our state is not adequately supporting this mission. 

Marion Community Schools is proud to announce that choir students from three of our schools have earned spots in the Indiana Music Education Association’s All-State Honor Choirs.

The McCulloch Junior High School students selected were Nathaniel Aguila, Caleb Huff, Emily Luckey, Chloe Phillips, and Caroline Russell; from Justice Intermediate School, Aubry Roedl was selected; and from Riverview Elementary School, Joseph Hancock and Hannah Huff were selected.