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July 2017
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From the Principal…. As the adage goes, the older one gets, the faster time seems to go. I suppose this is starting to become reality for many of us as we have just witnessed the Class of 2017 walk across the stage and receive their hardearned diplomas. With this passage of time, also comes change. The changes could be as simple as watching our children matriculate from one grade to the next or, for others, the changes may be watching our children leave for college, enter the work force, or join the military. Regardless of the changes you may be experiencing, please know that Mounds View High School is your constant and you will always be welcome here. Mounds View High School is a special place and it’s not because of the brick and mortar or the land that it sits. It’s special because of you. So, as I write this, my last official newsletter article as principal of Mounds View High School, I want to once again thank you. I thank you for your passion, your support of our faculty and staff, and most of all for your unwavering support of our students. I am incredibly proud to have been the principal of Mounds View High School and hope that I was able to make a difference during my tenure as principal. Respectfully Submitted,
Administration Jeff Ridlehoover Principal............................................ 651.621.7103 jeff.ridlehoover@moundsviewschools.org
Dr. Jeffery P. Ridlehoover Principal
Stephanie Bruggers Associate Principal........................... 651.621.7120 stephanie.bruggers@moundsviewschools.org Michael Schwartz Associate Principal........................... 651.621.7124 michael.schwartz@moundsviewschools.org Robert Madison Activities Director.............................. 651.621.7121 robert.madison@moundsviewschools.org
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Athletics & Activites Happenings Athletics/Activities Schedules
Schedules are available online at gomvmustangs.com and /or suburbaneast.org under member schools, select Mounds View. Schedule changes are posted as they become available.
Boys Tennis Boys tennis finished a great season with a number of successes. They are SEC Conference Champs and Section Champs. Petro Alex (10) is the singles champion, Michael Conlin-Brandenburg (12) and Michael Cao (10) are the doubles champions and Bjorn Swenson (7) qualified as an individual. The team finished 3rd in the State Tournament.
Boys Golf The boys golf team finished 2nd in the Section and Mitchell Wheeler (11) qualified for State.
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Athletics & Activites Happenings Track & Field Season Recap Boys – SEC Conference Champs, Section True Team Champions, finished 3rd in State True Team and 4th at the State Track meet as a team. Joel Smith (11) won the 300 meter intermediate hurdle title, breaking his own school record. Calvin Ciganik (11) was the state runner up in the pole vault. Girls – Section True Team Champions, finished 4th in State True Team and took 4th place overall as a team at the State Tournament. Julia Fixsen (10) state champion in the pole vault Leah Klein (12) state runner-up in the discus Emma Bangert (11) state runner-up in the 800 meter Hannah Rydberg (12) all-state with a 7th place finish in the pole vault
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Track & Field Looking Ahead Fall registration for sports/activities opened on July 17. Students need a valid physical on file before registering. You can check to see, if one is needed, by logging in to your ParentVue account and clicking on “student info” on the left side of the page. The last physical date is down at the bottom. Physicals are good for 3 years.
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Athletics & Activities Happenings Baseball Mustang baseball fought through 10 innings in Section Final play losing to Champlin Park 2-1.
Science Olympiad Congratulations to Mounds View’s Science Olympiad team on their 1st place win at Regionals and the State Tournament and 7th place at the national tournament in Ohio! This is the 5th year in a row they have placed in the top 10 nationally way to go!!
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Athletics & Activities Happenings Ultimate Frisbee Around 70 students participated on Varsity and JV boys and girls ultimate frisbee teams this spring. The varsity boys team participated in the state tournament! All Conference honors went to captains of the boys varsity team Brian Foran (11), Cal Kleppe (12) and Joey Rudolph (12) and Kylie Moberg (11) for the girls team.
Fall Musical: “Little Women” MVHS Theatre will kick off the 2017-2018 season on November 2-4 with “Little Women!” Auditions are Wednesday (8/23) and Thursday (8/24) from 12-6 PM. Callbacks are Friday (8/25) from 12-4 PM - plan to attend callbacks, if needed. Bring your completed cast application (with a parent signature and head shot!) and contact information sheet to the audition. Rehearsals begin Monday (8/29) for the whole cast. Crew and costuming rehearsals begin on the First Day of School (9/5). Information about the audition process, sign up, applications and information sheets will be available at http://gomvmustangs.com/theatre later this summer. If you have any questions, email david.phelps@moundsviewschools.org. See you in August for auditions!
Quiz Bowl Quiz Bowl team competes in National Championship! The team of William Amendola Bye (12), Justin Duffy (11), Joey Floeder (12), Brian Foran (11), Aryan Sehgal (9) and Ravi Singh (11) is coached by Justin Benolkin.
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Athletics & Activities Happenings Congratulations Seniors! Student Athlete of the Year Alexandra Kopiecki Ezekiel Lelinga Athlete of the Year Ryan Nickel Erin Saemrow Fine Arts Student of the Year Eric Besonen Charlotte Lim
Alexandra Kopiecki
Ezekiel Lelinga
3 x 4 (3 Sports for 4 Years) Benjamin Ebert Aaron Marx Talia Miller Mark Ousdigian Spencer Pauly
Ryan Nickel
Eric Besonen
Erin Saemrow
Charlotte Lim Benjamin Ebert
Talia Miller
Mark Ousdigian
Spencer Pauly
Aaron Marx
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Athletics & Activities Happenings Econ Club Econ Club won the National and International Tournament! Amazing!
David Zheng (12), Abhishek Vijayakumar (10), Benjamin Chen (11) , Michael Pak (10)
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Achievements & Awards JA Titan Competition Junior Achievement’s purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. JA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices. Junior Achievement’s programs—in the core content areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy—iignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century.
1st place Red Division: Maha Syed (10) and Michael Pak (10)
1st place Twitter Post: Adam Collins (9)
2nd place overall: Liam Edgar (9), John Rupert (9), and Maher Abusharar (9)
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Achievements & Awards Seniors Earn Associate Degree Three Mounds View High School seniors were presented their Anoka Ramsey Community College Associate Degree at the high school commencement on June 5.
Julia E. Sacay, Gabrielle Dorothy Gonzalez, Baian Ahmad Abu-Atieh, Dr. Jeff Ridlehoover
Essay Finalists Finalists in the annual essay contest sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Renee Lee (9), Chloe Wick (9), Leah Brandt (9), Diana Zhu (10), Michael Hu (9), Kimberly Shen (9), Brian Foran (11), Deepta Jasthi (9), Martha Rush (adviser)
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Achievements & Awards Scholarship to Study Abroad Congratulations to Ashley Chu (10), who has been awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarship by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Ashley will study Korean in South Korea for the summer. She is one of only approximately 600 competitively selected students from across the United States who will receive a scholarship to study Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, or Russian overseas this coming year. While in South Korea, Ashley will receive formal instruction and informal language practice as part of an immersion environment.
MCAD - Minneapolis College of Art and Design Hannah Sammon (11) and Olivia Shaffer (11) are attending the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Summer PreCollege Seminar in animation. Students had to apply and were accepted on the merit of their portfolio work. Congratulations Hannah and Olivia!
Hannah Sammon
Olivia Schaffer
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Achievements & Awards Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Congratulations to Madison Wang (12) and Audrey Wu (11) national award recipients of the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Madison is a winner of the silver medal in the Drawing & Illustration category for her work, “Pollution from Manufacturers”. Audrey is a winner of a silver medal in the Drawing & Illustration category for her work, “Charcoal Study”. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program is the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12.
Madison Wang
“Pollution from Manufacturers”
Audrey Wu
“Charcoal Study”
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Achievements & Awards White Bear Center for the Arts Congratulations to Lexi Munson (11) and Olivia Shaffer (11), on receiving top awards at the White Bear Center for the Arts. Lexi received an Award of Excellence for her work, “80 More Years” and Olivia received a Merit Award for her work, “Field of Flowers”.
Lexi Munson
“Field of Flowers”
Olivia Shaffer “80 More Years”
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Achievements & Awards US National Kayak Team Ina Poecher (11), was named to the US National Kayak Team and will be competing at the Junior World Championships in Romania. She also competed in the Cops PanAmericana de la Amistad in Mexico. Good luck Ina!
Best School Mounds View High School was voted “Best School” in the Lillie Suburban newspaper Bulletin, 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards. CLICK HERE for article.
Top 10 Best High School Mounds View High School was named among the Top 10 best high schools in Minnesota, once again placing them among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (Best High School rankings). The magazine recognized schools for exceeding expectations when it comes to student performance on reading and math tests, and for preparing students for college. 1. Math and Science Academy 2. Orono Senior High 3. Mahtomedi Senior High 4. Edina Senior High 5. Mankato West Senior High 6. Mounds View Senior High 7. Minnetonka Senior High 8. Eastview Senior High 9. Irondale Senior High 10. Eagan Senior High
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Achievements & Awards Equity Promise Scholarships Equity Promise Scholarships were awarded to seniors at the Senior Awards night. Seniors applied for the scholarships in the spring. Scholarships include education, school organization, athletic, service, community organization and memorial scholarships. A list of all scholarship recipients is available in the Summer 2017 issue of School Talk.
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Achievements & Awards Equity Promise Scholarships (cont.)
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Achievements & Awards National Spanish Exam Congratulations to the ninety-nine students from Mounds View who scored in the top 25% of the nation on the 2017 National Spanish Exam (NSE). CLICK HERE for results. High praises go to: Thomas Egan (12) Winner of the Minnesota Senior Scholarship ($1000) from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portugues (AATSP - MN) and placed second in the state on the level 5 NSE.
David Corado (12) Placed first in the state on the level 5 NSE in the bilingual category.
Nandini Avula (11) Winner of the Junior Travel Award to Peru in July of 2017 ($3200).
Bethany Kinney (10) Placed first in the state on the level 4 NSE.
Annika Borgaonkar (10) Placed first in the state on the level 3 NSE.
Valerie Heiderman (9) Mia Spieler (10) Placed second in the state on the Placed third in the state on the level level 2 NSE. 3 NSE and winner of the Sophomore Global Citizen Scholarship to Concordia Language Villages for two weeks in August 2017 ($2060)
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Achievements & Awards FTC Robotics Mounds View High School’s FTC robotics teams Height Differential, The Ponytail Posse and EPIC all competed at the World Robotics Championship in April. The Championship hosted more than 1,400 robotics teams from around the world. Height Differential was a finalist for the Inspire Award, the highest award given in FTC robotics. They were also captains of the winning robot game alliance and finished as the FTC World Champions. They will be joining the top eight teams in the world at the Festival of Champions in July. The Ponytail Posse won a first place award for their Promote video and a special Judges Award for “Gracious Professionalism Under Fire.” They have been invited to represent FIRST Robotics at the White House Science Fair later this year.
Pictured from left to right: (back row) Grant Altenhofen (10), John Helgeson (11), Amelie Elmquist (11), Sabriyah Taher (11), Heeral Narkhede (11), Meghan Froehle (11), (front row) Akash D’Souza (10), Nick Riedel (11), Charlotte Hamilton (9), Nancy Koshy(10), Amy Helgeson (11), Rose Lam (11)
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Achievements & Awards “Spirit of a Mustang” Congratulations to the following students who were honored with the “Spirit of a Mustang” award for having the most outstanding character at Mounds View High School! Winners were announced at the Grand March. Students were nominated by teachers and chosen by prom committee staff.
Jake Rzeszutek (11), Bushra Bihi (11)
Clare Carroll (12), Reem Khan (12)
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Farewell Class of 2017
Last Day on Campus
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Farewell Class of 2017
Cap & Gown Day
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Farewell Class of 2017
Class Picture
Senior Breakfast
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Farewell Class of 2017
Senior Breakfast
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Farewell Class of 2017
Senior Breakfast
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Farewell Class of 2017
Senior Breakfast
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Farewell Class of 2017
Senior Breakfast
Graduation 2017
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Farewell Class of 2017
Graduation 2017
Principal, Jeff Ridlehoover
Class officers, Quinn McDonagh, Kristina Quanbeck, Sophia Van De Werken
Faculty speaker, Aaron Ogdahl
Principal’s award, Lisa Reimann
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Farewell Class of 2017
Graduation 2017
Senior performance, Hannah Rauch
Mounds View Concert Choir, directed by David Phelps
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Farewell Class of 2017
Graduation 2017
Mounds View Band, directed by Phillip Richardson
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Around MVHS Saint Paul Saints visit PREP class Seth Rosin (Class of 2007) brought along his teammates Mark Hamburger (Class of 2005), Ken Frosch & team mascot, Mudonna for a visit to students in PREP class!
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Around MVHS Festival of Nations Over 100 students taking a World Language were able to attend the “Festival of Nations” in St. Paul. Ethnic food was eaten, purchases were made at the various “shops” and much was learned about countries all over the world!
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Around MVHS Visit from a Librarian Paige Fuller, Ramsey County Teen Services Librarian, visited the Information & Learning Center and talked to students about Roseville Library’s summer program.
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Around MVHS Student Honors Retired Teacher Erik Barsness (12) honors long-time career teacher Tom Carr by making a bust likeness in 3-D Art. The piece is titled: “Man, Myth, Legend” and will be displayed in Mr. Butler’s classroom.
Eric Barsness and Tom Carr
Memorial Garden Mounds View junior, Eddie Brody, is planning to build a memorial garden for Stephanie Carlson and Bridget Giere for his Eagle Scout project. North Heights Lutheran Church has volunteered to host the garden. Read the ARTICLE in the Shoreview Bulletin.
Alumni News Coho Menk (Class of 2012) died unexpectedly in May of 2016. A year later, the young man is being remembered through the efforts of his grieving mother. Beth Messerly focuses her energy on a new nonprofit called CoHOPE (Creating Opportunities to Help Others). More information on CoHOPE or how to support the nonprofit can be found at www.cohopecares.org Read ARTICLE in the Shoreview Press for more information.
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Around MVHS Surprise Proposal Stephen Sweeney, Mounds View and Chippewa Orchestra Director, arranged a special encore piece during the 6th grade orchestra concert to propose to his girlfriend, Alanna!
View video of the proposal on YouTube. CLICK HERE Video by Ellie Tsai (11)
Yearbook Distribution Vista editors distributing 2017 yearbooks.
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Around MVHS Chalkboard Capers
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Scott Sundstrom, MVHS tennis coach and Chalkboard Caper actor
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Around MVHS Annual Blood Drive Aaron Ogdahl’s Anatomy & Physiology students partnered with the American Red Cross for the annual blood drive.
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Around MVHS AP Chemistry Research projects.
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Around MVHS AP Chemistry
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Around MVHS AP Chemistry
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Around MVHS Mini Grand March Mounds View students attended the Mini Grand March at Shoreview Senior Living Center.
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Around MVHS Grand March
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Around MVHS Prom
Junior/Senior Prom was held on May 13.
A Star ry Night