This week the Mount Madonna School (MMS) sixth grade Technology, Engineering and Art (TEA) class became the first group to use a cutting-edge computer platform called Piper. Piper kits combine physical fabrication and engineering with digital coding to encourage engineering skills, computer…
Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce, Quick 5 Podcast, 2/14/2023. New episode of Quick 5 released 2/28/2023! On this episode of Quick 5 Chamber CEO Nick Gaich and Quick 5 Producer Kylie McLaughlin sat down with Mount Madonna School’s upper school Director Shannon…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/27/2023, “A Learning Journey,” photo and story by Shmuel Thaler. Eleventh graders at Purkal Youth Development Society (PYDS) have courtside seats as Mount Madonna School senior Sky Weir challenges an attack at the net from one of the society’s…
Aptos Times, 2/21/2023, “Sixth Graders Digging Deep- Agroecology for Mount Madonna School Students.”
Over the past few weeks, Mount Madonna School (MMS) eighth grade students have been working in their Technology, Engineering and Art (TEA) class to create clay lamps, that, when finished, will be wired and functionable. Teachers Angela Willetts and John Welch have…
Recently, Mount Madonna School (MMS) second grade students sampled “sweet lesson” in food production, when MMS parent, Nishan Moutafian, who works for locally-based berry producer, Driscoll’s, came and taught students about the process of berries and their growth. The presentation was part…
Middle and high school students from six schools in four counties joined their peers at Mount Madonna School (MMS) for their inaugural regional Model United Nations (Model UN or MUN) conference hosted by MMS on February 11. The theme of the conference,…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/12/2023, “Mount Madonna School hosts inaugral MUN conference,” story and photos by Aric Sleeper.
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, February 2023. “The Excavators on the Playground,” by Lisa Catterall. I spent three years involved in writing and defending the California Preschool Foundations. State-sponsored preschool is a marvelous concept, and there were hundreds of well-intentioned people who…
Watsonville Patch.com, 1/30/2023, “Watsonville Star Student Is Student Government President,” by Bea Karnes. WATSONVILLE, CA — Star Students are found in classrooms, on concert and theater stages and at debate lecterns, and out in the community doing good things to make life…
