Growing Up in Santa Cruz, June 2023, “Congratulations Class of 2023.” Mount Madonna School wishes you much success as you continue on your journey: California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Clarkson University; Purchase College, State University of New York; Tulane University, University of California, Los…
Thank you to Radio Zindagi and hosts Dr. Romesh Japra and Ritu Maheshwari for having our students on air to talk about “Ramayana!” Listen to the May 19 interview here:
Joining the crew as a guest photographer at “Ramayana” this year is Preston Merchant, who has volunteered his time and talent for many years to help visually document this show. You may see him photographing rehearsals and the behind-the-scenes preparations at the…
Senior students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) are helping Santa Clara County’s Department of Parks and Recreation to monitor forest health in Mount Madonna County Park. This hands-on collaboration is a part of Science with Humanity, an honors science class taught by …
Aptos Times, 6/1/2023, “Mount Madonna School Valedictorians and Salutatorian.”
Mount Madonna School (MMS) is pleased to announce Cecily Kelly, Mariah Cohen and Samuel Kaplan as the 2023 co-valedictorians and Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak as salutatorian. Cohen, Kaplan and Kelly, who started attending MMS as preschools students, and Ocampo-Sobkoviak in fifth grade, earned this…
Name, city of residence: Jacob Sirk-Traugh, Gilroy Grade you started at MMS: Ninth grade What inspires you? I am inspired by the beauty and power of nature. It’s a dream of mine to travel the world through backpacking and hiking. To me,…
Sixth and seventh grade World History students at Mount Madonna School learned to craft engaging interviews in the style of National Public Radio (NPR) programs by digging into their own family histories. “Oral history is a technique for generating and preserving original,…
As another year of college acceptance letters have rolled in, Mount Madonna School (MMS) is proud to announce that its Class of 2023 was overwhelmingly accepted into the most selective University of California (UC) campuses: Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis, Santa Barbara, and…
Name, city of residence: Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak, Watsonville Grade you started at MMS: Fifth grade What inspires you? What inspires me are people who defy expectations in a positive way and don’t let others define them. What is your favorite subject in school,…
