February 7, 2013—Febraury 22, 2013

The entries from the 2012 Conservation Writing Contest have been judged and the winners have been chosen.

And the MCHS winners are...

Mackenzie Barnes: 1st Place School and County Winner

Jordan Dunn: 2nd Place School Winner

Patrick Campbell: 3rd Place School Winner

The Montgomery County District Selection Committee has chosen the Governor’s Scholars applications to be for-

warded to the state GSP organization in Frankfort. The following individuals will be competing with students from across the state for selection as 2013 Governor’s Scholars: Shelby Blanton, Aaron Botts, Caitlin Conyers, Tara

Eling, Meredith Ledford, Mia MacDonald, Shannon Ooijkaas, Will Razor, Fox Thorpe, and Katie Wyant

Congratulations to the MCHS Mock Trial Team for claiming the Championship last January 19th for the 2013 UK

Wildcat Invitational Tournament . The Red Team won with a record of 4 – 0 with wins over Louisville Eastern

and Dixie Heights. The Blue Team took 2nd place and also went 4 – 0 with wins against DuPont Manual & Madison Central. Allie Maples, Cole Tipton, Symantha Webb, Ryan Drake, and Andrea Tyra won Attorney Awards. Katy Wil-

kins, Seth Drake, Collin Potter, Symantha Webb, Trey Smallwood and Sean Greer won Witness Awards.

Congratulations to Jacob Hill, Tanner Dice, Lance Lockridge, and Seth Reeder who will sign their National Letters

of Intent to play college sports this Friday, February 8th in the MCHS library at 1:10P.M. Jacob intends to play Di-

vision I soccer at Evansville University, while Seth intends to play DI soccer with Northern Kentucky University. For football, Lance will be signing with Lindsey Wilson College, and Seth will be signing with Kentucky State University.

Congratulations to both of these outstanding student athletes!

The MCHS Yearbook staff is currently accepting Senior Baby Pictures through March 1st. Please give the picture

with your full name on the back to Mr. Hackett in room #154.

ALL Juniors will be taking the ACT on Tuesday, March 5th. There will be Free ACT prep sessions at MCHS on the

following Saturdays: February 9th, February 23rd, and March 2nd. The sessions begin at 10:00AM. For further

information, contact Ms. Eads in the guidance counselors office.

Students attending the University of Kentucky this fall can participate in a 6-week

summer residential academic enrichment program. This is a great opportunity to

meet other students and the faculty, register early for classes, and earn 6 hours of college credit. The registration deadline is March 4th. Please contact the guidance

office for the application and further information.

The Community Scholarship Book is now available to all seniors. Contact the guid-

ance office.

Miss Allie Maples represented Montgomery County in the Distinguished Young

Women’s Program. Allie finished in the Top Ten and won overall Self-Expression.

Mr. Ryan McGuire was selected to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on

National Security in February. Founded in 1992, the National Youth Leadership

Forum (NYLF) is an educational organization established to help prepare extraor-

dinary young people for their professional careers.

Attention MCHS Alumni!

Class Yearbooks from previous years are

now for sale at MCHS. The following

years are available:

1999

2002

2005

2008

2009

Contact Ms. Nora Reddix or Ms. Debbie

Bottom at MCHS for details.

TRIBE PRIDE

MCHS

$10

Congratulations to the MCHS Chess Team for finishing 2nd in the King of the Mountain District. Robert Murphy

finished 3rd out of 50 players in the district. The MCHS Chess Team will go to Regional Competition on Saturday, Feb-

ruary 9th.

Congratulations to the MCHS Girls Bowling Teams on a great season! We would like to recognize the Seniors who have helped

build the program and have been so important to the team. Way to go!!!

Lauren Nickell

Haley Wells

Katie Potter

Caroline Queen

Haley Shrout

Baylee Newsome

Madison Oaks

Tori Roach

JV Team

114 Wt.Class:

Devland Banks

123 Wt.Class:

Kollin Parks Alex Holt

132 Wt.Class: Austin Sutphin

Spencer Linton

Rodney Peterson

148 Wt.Class:

Trey Woodley Ryan West

Jordan Postelnick

Matt Purvis Joe Garland

Aaron Shelley

165 Wt.Class:

Jordan Wade

Colton Miller Anthony Profitt

Keiton Young

Mason Gooch Michael Grapner

James Fletcher

181 Wt.Class:

Jared Johnson

Chris Manns Trevor St.John

Christian Bowling

Caleb Reynolds Harrison Dixon

Tristan Frazier

198 Wt.Class:

William Boggs

Chase Parker

220 Wt.Class:

Paul Germana Nathaniel Vatnsdal

242 Wt.Class: Conner Murphy

275 Wt.Class:

Joseph Littleton

Jordan Fletcher James Dees

SHW Class: Marcus Whitaker

Varsity

123 Wt.Class:

Matthew Mounce

132 Wt.Class:

Hogan Gagle

148 Wt.Class: Isaac Colliver

Blake Thompson

Cody Sutphin

165 Wt.Class:

BJ Shelley Robert Murphy

181 Wt.Class: Zach Roland

Matt Tuttle

198 Wt.Class:

Aaron Botts

David Chamness

220 Wt.Class:

Blake Preston Colton Collins

242 Wt.Class: Daniel Collison

Austin Hamm

Cody Robinson Uvea Moala

Jacob Purvis

275 Wt.Class:

Skylar Martin

Ben Moore Eli Manning

Seth Reeder

Wade Craycraft

SHW Class:

Austin Shanks

The first meet for the MCHS Power Lifting Team is February 16th

in Spencer County, followed by the State Push-Pull Champion-

ships on March 9th. Finally, on March 16th, the team will compete

in the Laurel County Invitational Power Lifting Meet. On January 9th, the MCHS Wrestling Team won their

home match against Franklin County by a score of 42-30.

The MCHS Varsity Wrestling Team finished their regular

season this past weekend by winning the Danville Duels

Championship. The team finished the regular season with

a duels record of 30-5. The wrestlers will compete in the

regional tournament on February 8th and 9th in Woodford

County.

Kudos to the MCHS

Cheerleaders for win-

ning the Class 2A Re-

gional Champion-

ships. They will com-

pete at the state level

on February 22nd in

Bowling Green.

On February 19th,

the MCHS Dance

Team was named

10th Regions

Champions in the

small team competi-

tion. They will

compete at the state

level on February

23rd in Frankfort.

The MCHS Bowling Girls placed 3rd in the Region on

Saturday, January 26th. Katie Potter and Tori Roach

placed in the top 10 for individual events. Katie Potter

advanced to the Top 8 and tied for 4th place. In a contro-

versial bowl off , she placed 5th overall in the region.

Terrific job to the Boys’ Bowling Team who will compete

in the state tournament after winning the Regional Com-

petition this Saturday. Congratulations to Zack Blevins

and Andy Cora

who qualified to

move on to the

state individual

competition.

Something to Tweet About – The school system has added Twitter to its communication resources in a continued effort to share information effec-

tively and efficiently. Follow us @MCSisBest.

Celebrating Success - (1) The MCHS Boys’ Bowling team won the regional tournament for the second year and advanced to state competition.

Andy Cora and Zack Blevins were 3rd and 4th in the region and will compete individually at the state level. (2) The MCHS Future Problem Solving

Team advanced to regional Governor’s Cup competition, which included Cody Brentlinger,

Bryana Shumate, Logan Darnell, and Taylor Bowman. Also advancing to regionals individually

- James Bowman, Science; Elizabeth Mynhier, in both

Language Arts and Composition; Cody Brentlinger, Social

Studies; Bryana Shumate, Arts/Humanities. (3) The MCHS

Mock Trial Team swept the championship of the 2013

University of Kentucky Wildcat Invitational last Saturday.

The MCHS Red Team won the title and the MCHS Blue

Team took second place in the tournament. (4) More than

40 parents and staff members attended a public forum last

Sunday to discuss safety and security in the schools. (5)

Students across the district celebrated the 100th day of

school on Monday, January 28th. (6) Network engineer

Brett Higgins was elected as the Region 5 Representative for the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education.

Student Attendance – Attendance was once again dismal across the district this week, with four of our schools posting attendance days below

90%. The good news is that the highest daily and weekly percentages were posted by Mt. Sterling Elementary, which had the lowest rates in the

district last week. MSE had a daily high of 94.27% and a weekly high of 92.52%.

Administrative Credentials Change - All Kentucky school principal preparation programs have recently moved to a 30-hour POST-Master’s re-

quirement. Current Level I credentials were likely earned via the completion of a Master’s level program. Current EPSB regulations state that all

coursework, including that required for Level II programs, for the Master’s level programs must be completed before JANUARY 31, 2014. Level I

credentials may only be renewed by completing the Level II program. It is to the advantage of all Level I administrative credential holders to com-

plete all Level II coursework (usually 6-9 credit hours, depending upon the university) as soon as possible and no later than January 2014. Comple-

tion of the Level II program will renew this credential, add up to five more years to the expiration date, and will prevent having to take the substan-

tially higher number of credit hours required by all of the newly approved post-Master’s preparation programs. After the January 31, 2014 dead-

line, universities will not be able to make the Level II recommendations without the completion of the new post-Master’s requirements. Level I

credential holders are urged to make plans now to complete the requirements for Level II.

Dates –

Feb. 7-8 ------------- State Bowling Tournament

Feb. 8----------------- Mapleton PTO & FRC Parent Involvement Night

Feb. 8-9-------------- Wrestling Regionals at Woodford County

Feb. 8-9-------------- Swimming Regionals at Barbourville

Feb. 9----------------- Girls’ home basketball game was changed from the 8th to the 9th following

the JROTC competition, 6:00 p.m.

Feb. 9----------------- JROTC competition

Feb. 9----------------- Homecoming Dance

Feb. 15 – 16--------- State Wrestling, Lexington Horse Park

Feb. 18-21----------- District Hoops Week - Girls at Paris on the 19th/21st; Boys on the 18th/20th

at GRC

Feb. 19--------------- Board of Education Agenda Review Session, 6:30 p.m., Clay Center

Feb. 21--------------- FFA Banquet

Feb. 24--------------- McNabb Drama Club Performance

Feb. 25 – Mar. 5---- Regional Week - Girls at Nicholas County and Boys at Mason County. Girls

nights are March 27, 28 and March 4, 5 (our nights TBA). The boys nights are Feb. 25, 26 and

March 1, 2(our nights TBA).

Feb. 26 -------------- Board of Education meeting

Be sure to notify the designated person at your school if you have calendar information that

should be added to your website calendar.

Thank you so much for your effort and commitment to children. If you have questions about any of the information contained in this issue of The

Weekly Word, please contact me at josh.powell@montgomery.kyschools.us.