The Mena Bearcats took home the 4A South Regional Wrestling Championship on Saturday! All 13 wrestlers qualified for state! Bearcat Wrestling is doing Great Things! Next stop the State tournament!
The Mena Public Schools presented Sarah Carrell with a certificate of appreciation today as a part of her 90th birthday celebration. Carrell was a longtime employee of the district and continues to serve as a foster grandparent.
Mena High School hosted the Special Olympics Basketball Skills Competition in the Union Bank Center on Friday.
The Mena FFA CDE Teams competed at the AR Alumni Contest in Hot Springs on Thursday.
Ag Mechanics- 5th Overall team, Jonathan Bauman 1st place individual
Food Science- 5th Overall Team, Layla Walker- first contest, placed 11th overall
Forestry- 6th Overall Team, Waylon Head 3rd place individual
Horse- 8th Overall Team
Nursery Landscape- 7th place Overall Team
Vet Science- 5th Overall Team, Allison Howard 2nd place individual
Wildlife- 3rd Overall Team, Dax McMellon 2nd place individual
These contests are preparing our students along with after school practices for our Southern District Contest that is March 12.
Congratulations to Mena High School Cheerleader Kiylee Hughes on being selected as an All-Star Cheerleader. She will be performing at the Arkansas All-Star Basketball game and the Arkansas All-Star Football game June 22nd in Conway.
We have an amazing new awning that extends from our LD building to the gym! 🎉🎉
If your MHS student purchased valentine pictures they are edited and have been sent to their school Email.
The steel framing for the new Hensley Activity Center arrived Monday morning. The building is expected to be complete by the start of the 24-25 school year.
Mr Leo installing our new football 🏈 goals!! These were purchased with our fundraiser monies!!
Ladycats competed at the 1-5A South Regionals today and overall as a team finished in 6th place in confrence, 5 out of 7 girls qualified for the state tournament! But all of them have shown incredibly growth and improvement!
Great job Ladycats !
Harlee Pannell 4th place
Emmi Hensley 3rd place
Destiny Hogan 3rd place
Emery Anderson 1st place
Jolina Butterfield 4th place
We love restocking our Free Little Library to prepare for a weekend full of reading!!
Check out our Free Little Library in front of Louise Durham! It is set up so families can have access to Free Books after school or on the weekends!
There are more than 100,000 registered Free Little Library Book sharing boxes in 108 countries worldwide📚
Remember Take a book, leave a book, love a book!
The 2024 Wrestling regular season came to an end on Thursday.. The Mena Bearcats won both duals to Lonoke and Pulaski Academy, but fell short to CAC, the Mena Bearcats will be competing at Lonoke High School next Saturday (17th) at regionals for a shot at state!
We also had a wrestler get their first win by pin which was an awesome team experience and this picture taken by Jessica Anderson shows the togetherness of these boys and girls. Go Bearcats!
MMS Leadership class came to teach our 3rd graders leadership games during enrichment!
Their future’s so bright they should have worn shades 😊 This group did amazing at District 1 Spring FBLA conference in Fort Smith today. We qualified for state competition in 28 events and 6 more events that are state only. **If anyone would like to judge some practice presentations for us between now and April 29…let me know!!!!
Objective tests:
4th place Accounting - Carmindy Ashcraft
3rd place Business Calculations- Tuangsian Dopmul
2nd place Business Communications- Shantal Tecson
3rd place Business Law - Briley Parker
4th place Cybersecurity - Chloe Hopper
4th place Health care Administration - Yennyte Tecson
4th place Insurance & Risk Management - Rylee Wiles
3rd place Intro to Financial Math - Eli Swall
6th place Intro to Business Procedures - Tessa Williams
4th place Intro to Business Communications - Makenzie Vega
2nd place Intro to FBLA-Katie Rowe
2nd place Intro to Information Technology - Kate Wilson
4th place Intro to Marketing Concepts - Alaina Gilbert
3rd place Networking Infrastructures - Cristian Miller
4th place Supply Chain Management - Beck Vacca
Test and Case study or Presentation (they had to present to judges)
1st place Digital Video Production - El Spencer
4th place Entrepreneurship - Brady Montgomery and Kensey Rosson
2nd place Hospitality and Event Management-Sully Massey, Jaxon Baber, Hudson Vacca
3rd place Impromptu Speaking-Gracie Gates
1st place International Business - Antonio Sanchez
2nd place Intro to Business Presentation - Zoe Adams and Adelhi Look
5th place Intro to Public Speaking - Kilee Rowe
2nd place Job Interview - Brinley Blake
2nd place Marketing - Daniel Edgmon
1st place Public Speaking - Hailey Emerson
2nd place Sales Presentation - Omar Cecilio
4th place Social Media Strategies - Briley Dean
2nd place Visual Design- Psalm Wistrand
3rd place Website Design-Jayden Cox, Kili Cox, Pascha Wistrand
The following MMS students placed in the top 5 of their competitions and were called on stage to be recognized and to receive their certificates at the FBLA Spring Leadership Conference in the Fort Smith Convention Center.
Brylee Cox - 3rd place in the 3 minute timed test
Lily Kate Doughty - 2nd place in Spelling
Paeyton Hostetler - 4th place in Digital Citizenship
Zahra Sofi - 3rd place in proofreading
Lexie Thomas - 5th place in proofreading
Francesca Vacca - 4th place in FBLA Concepts
Francesca Vacca and Paeyton Hostetler qualified to compete at state in April.
Congratulations to all that were recognized at conference!!
The MMS Project Prevent Team met Wednesday to plan their spring semester tobacco/nicotine prevention activities and wrapped lunch break by having a campus trash cleanup!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all! 1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce 3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller
Congratulations Mena Middle School 8th grader Shooter Davis for taking 2nd place overall at the Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday!!!
Holly Harshman Elementary students participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday.
County Bee Winners-
3rd Grade- 3rd Place- Landri Bass
4th Grade- 3rd Place- Savannah Goodnight
5th Grade- 2nd Place- Avori Gortemiller
Mena Insurance Players of the Game:
Dardanelle - Madi Fowler
Waldron - Makenley Sullivan
