Martin County High School

🎓🎉TIME TO CELEBRATE🎉🎓 Help us shine the spotlight on your favorite senior! Fill out this link so we can highlight the amazing stories of our Class of 2024 seniors: https://bit.ly/3TB60S5 We can't wait to share your stories and photos right here! #ALLINMartin👊 #Classof2024 #MCSDSeniorStories

The MCHS Choral Department competed in the District Vocal Music Performance Assessments (MPA)! 🙂 They did an outstanding job! Combined Ladies received all Superior Ratings from the three judges for their stage performance and a Superior in Sight-Reading. Combined Men received all Excellent Ratings from the three judges for their stage performance and a Superior in Sight-Reading. OPUS received all Superior Ratings from the judges for their stage performance and a Superior in Sight-Reading. MCHS is most proud of their Sight-Reading scores! As one judge put it, the performance can sometimes be the 'dog and pony show' but the real test is in the Sight-Reading room, where you can see the learning that is taking place! 🙂

MCHS Senior Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 10AM in the Auditorium. Important information about upcoming senior events and graduation requirements will be shared.

MCHS DECA attended the State competition in Orlando with over 2600 students from across the state. MCHS is proud of our students for going up against all these larger schools and placing in the top 50%. Our Tigers handled themselves with the professionalism and maturity expected of Martin County students. DECA advisor, Leigh Lawrynas received a Professional Service award for 15 years of service with DECA. Individual accomplishments: Brooke Belding and MacKenzie DiNicola placed 26th in the state for Travel & Tourism Team Decision Making     Kellianne Fariello and Alexis Kavouklis placed 15th in the state for Hospitality Services Team Decision Making Hutchinson Hughes and Morgan Williams placed 28th in the state for Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making

Congratulations to Martin County High School's Academy of Culinary Arts students who secured 2nd Overall in the Florida ProStart Program Culinary Team Competition this past weekend! The Tigers competed against 42 other ProStart programs from around the state in different categories. In addition to winning 2nd Overall, several students were recognized for their individual and team accomplishments: 🏆Hospitality Excellence Award: Victoria Garcia 🥉Culinary Team: Michael Decesare, Zach Walker, Kalla Caves, Sarah Duda, Isabella Quevedo 🥉 Restaurant Management Team: Victoria Garcia, Rosemary Hernandez, Sienna Hartley, Jennifer Lopez 🥈 Edible Centerpiece: Bryar Stoney (received a $5,000 scholarship from Keiser University) 🍽️ Top 8 Finish in Waiter's Relay: Taylor Koon, Costantino Padovano, Davis Scott 🍽️ $2,000 Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association Scholarships: Michael Decesare, Jennifer Lopez, and Tishaly Acosta Ramos All members of both the Culinary and Management teams received scholarships from: The Culinary Institute of America, Johnson & Wales University, Nicholls State University, Culinary Institute of Virginia, Keiser University, Rosen School Of Hospitality at the University of Central Florida and the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Congratulations, Tigers!

🏄‍♀️🌊SURF'S UP🌊🏄 Celebrate National School Breakfast Week with the Martin County School District! This year’s theme is Surf’s Up With School Breakfast. Students, get charged up for a day of learning by grabbing breakfast in the cafeteria all week long! Watch this video highlighting the daily options created by Citrus Grove Elementary School Food and Nutrition Services Manager Christy Cole and her students: https://youtu.be/Oh5_igPqngg #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud #MCSDBetterTogether💫

MCHS girls varsity lacrosse attack player, LILY WERNICK, has been nominated for TCPALM player of the week! Please vote for her using link below! You can vote as many times as you’d like! It takes two clicks! Let’s get Lily and our school this recognition! Way to go Lily! https://www.tcpalm.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/03/04/vote-tcpalms-athlete-of-the-week-for-feb-26-mar-2-playing-period/72837170007/

The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology is offering an internship opportunity that is paid and full time through the summer. It is only for students interested and taking courses in STEM. Please see link below, posting closes on March 17th. Link: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/529824/kenan-fellow-high-school-student-research-internjupiter-fl

Students from the Academy of Computer Science attended Florida’s first-ever statewide high school cybersecurity competition: CyberLaunch! CyberLaunch introduced high school students to the universe of cybersecurity careers through the fun of a statewide competition.

The Martin County High School Jazz Ensemble and Drama department performed at the grand opening of the Destination Playground at Kiwanis Park in downtown Stuart. The Jazz Ensemble performed several selections and Drama students performed excerpts from their upcoming production of "Seussical the Musical", which will be showing April 25-27th at Martin County High School.

​Wondering how to join the AICE program at MCHS? Interested in learning more about what AICE is and what its benefits are? For more information, watch our video​ at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6pjIWAXOiIoScg2Orcb7EbtTOO7x5Xa/view?usp=drive_link or by scanning the QR Code.

MCHS Alumnus, Ryan Mitchell, won 1st place at the Research Data Visualization Competition at Duke University! Ryan shares that data visualization is what he most loves to do! Storytelling with numbers is what excited him about statistics in the first place. Congratulations!

🍎CHOOSING THE BEST🍎 During an Emergency Meeting held this evening, the Martin County School Board voted to add Martin County High School and Jensen Beach High School to the list of approved Controlled Open Enrollment schools for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. This means in AND out-of-county residents can apply to ANY MCSD-operated school during the application period that will open tomorrow, March 1 – March 31. For high school students, applications for signature programs are no longer required as part of the Choice process, but must be completed if your child would like to be considered for entrance into a signature program. ℹ️Students accepted into a Controlled Open Enrollment choice option must have their own mode of transportation to and from school. Students are not required to renew their applications annually and will be permitted to attend their chosen school through the highest grade level offered on the campus. ➡️Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/page/office-of-school-choice #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫 #PublicSchoolProud

HS Seniors will mainly find Going Merry useful this spring to find additional local and national scholarship opportunities, compare financial aid award letters using College Cost Insights, and use our appeal letter resources to ask for additional free aid from schools - to name a few. Onboarding 101 (https://www.goingmerry.com/counselor-resource-student-onboarding-handout/) lists the steps to help students search and apply for real, verified scholarships on Going Merry to help pay for college.

Caden Kokinda and Santiago Pacheco are the JROTC Cadets of the Month for February!

ESE Parent Workshop, Project 10-Transition Basics: Information for Families and Others Who Support Students with Disabilities is on March 21, 2024 from 6-7pm via Zoom: https://martinschools-org.zoom.us/j/86852590506

Congratulations to the MCHS Character Counts! winners for Responsibility: Kaitlyn Gary Najah Karake Dayanna Hernandez Isabella Montoya Mia Valeri Madison Loudon Esmeralda Gaona Ava Nowicki Lucas Rookard Emmanual Ramirez Teacher – Ms. Vanessa Porcelli

🍎PUBLIC SCHOOL PROUD🍎 Celebrate Public Schools Week with the Martin County School District! We proudly educate about 18,000 PK-12 students across 29 facilities. All week long, join us in celebrating the amazing things happening in our public schools and the people who make it all happen! Today is Memory Lane Monday! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #psw24

🏆HEADING TO STATE🏆 The Martin County High School wrestling team pinned their way to 7th in Regionals out of 30 teams this weekend! Three MCHS wrestlers took 3rd in their weight class and are heading to the State Championship! Special congratulations to: 🥉 Corbin Fjalstad (120) 🥉 Jack Duke (138) 🥉 Reece Smith (215) Congratulations to all the wrestlers and their coaches! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud #MCSDBetterTogether💫

Congratulations to the MCHS AFJROTC Drill and Fitness team members who came in 3rd place in the Inaugural Congressman Mast Drill and Fitness competition. Team members: Sal Yonta, (Leader), Caden Kokinda, Santiago Pacheco, Grady Stahl, Katelyn Hardy, and Angeline Simpson. Events include the following: Uniform inspection, color guard, element drill, flag raising and folding, impromptu speech, 1 mile beach run, fitness circuit, and obstacle course relay.