In addition to time spent in The Factory, Mount Madonna School (MMS) makers’ space, elementary students at MMS also engage in wide variety of hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) projects in their own classrooms on a regular basis. One…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/15/2017, “2017 Boys Volleyball Preview: PCS seeking perfect SCCAL season,” by Julie Jag. Read the story
In the documentary The Music of Strangers, musician Yo-Yo Ma says, “I’m always trying to figure out at some level who I am and how I fit in the world, which I think is something that I share with seven billion other people.”…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/25/2017, Name Dropping, “Leading to the top of the mountain,” by Justine DaCosta. Read the article
Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, 2/8/2017, “Drought identified as key to severity of West Nile virus epidemics,” by Tim Stephens of UCSC. Interesting article that includes research and conclusions from several scientists, including alumni Noah Diffenbaugh (’92), Ph.D.,…
The New York Times, 2/14/2017, “What California’s Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate,” by Noah S. Diffenbaugh (’92), Ph.D., senior fellow and professor of earth system science at Stanford University. Read the article
The Seed of Flame, an environmental STEM project undertaken by a team of seventh grade students at Mount Madonna School (MMS), is one of 16 finalists nationwide to receive a $10,000 prize through the 2016-17 air and climate Lexis Eco Challenge. Now…
Independent School, a publication of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Winter 2017 issue, “Hands-on learning in Catalina.” Read the article PDF
South Valley magazine, 1/20/2017, “Fairy Tales,” a preview of Mount Madonna high school production of Into The Woods. Read more.
Congratulations to teacher Jessica Cambell and Mount Madonna School (MMS) on receiving the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA), which celebrates the environmental education work of MMS fifth grade students for the last nine years! MMS is one of twelve California…
