Mena School District

Six students represented Holly Harshman Elementary at the 2025 Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday! Each student displayed great courage and knowledge. Here are the results. 3rd Grade: 3rd Place Bode Schauble 4th Grade: 2nd Place: Julia Henry 5th Grade: 1st Place: Tristn Sanders 2nd Place: Wyatt Brosius WE are so proud of all of them!

“Pick”le Your Choices Wisely Day! MMS Project Prevent team traded a Pickle for a pledge to be chew/spit tobacco free!

The Mena chess team competed at the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative. Dorian Knight won 1st place, and Elijah Smith won 2nd place.

Nikko is surpassing his Accelerated Reading 📖 goals left & right!! He’s at over 400 points and received a gift certificate for the restaurant of his choice! Reading takes you places- it’s taking Nikko to LaVilla!

Mena High School hosted the 2025 Special Olympics Basketball Skills Competition on Tuesday in the Union Bank Center. Athletes from Mena, Polk County Development Center, Cossatot River and Woodcrest competed. MHS students and community members helped coordinate the events and encouraged participants.

Mena High School athletes Elliot Dugan & Brynlee Bahr competed at the Arkansas Indoor High School Championships at the University of Arkansas on Saturday. Dugan finished 7th in the high jump and was 1st for 4A athletes. Bahr finished 7th in the pole vault and was 1st for 4A athletes. Several other Mena athletes also competed and you can check complete results at the link below. https://milesplit.live/meets/644394

Congratulations to the 2025 4A South Regional Champion Mena Bearcat Wrestling Team. See complete results at the link below. https://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/MainFrame.jsp?newSession=false&TIM=1740272898974&pageName=%2Fpredefinedtournaments%2FTournamentResults.jsp&twSessionId=hgtvhmeobl

We Read Wednesday is so much fun because we get to share all of our favorite books! 🎉 The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories! Meet Mrs. Rowe. She teaches and supports students Kindergarten-Second Grade and shares her excitement for books and reading with her students. "I love the Lorax by Dr Seuss. My kids really enjoyed the fun illustrations in The Lorax when they were younger. I love how the author uses a creative storyline to bring attention to the importance of being mindful of our resources, making what can be a heavy topic more accessible and engaging!"❤️📚~Mrs. Rowe "The Lorax" by Dr Seuss Check it out in our school library!

We Read Wednesday: Mrs Rose, our school counselor, is a reader! She loves self help books and is currently interested in books and magazines about homesteading and growing flowers. Magazines are a great type of reading that can help you learn all kinds of information.

Congratulations to Mena MIddle School 8th Grader Anna Riley for placing 3rd in District of the VFW Patriot's Pen Essay Contest.

Mena Ladycats wrestlers competed at the 5A South Regional today for an opportunity to qualify for state. Three young ladies from Mena will be representing your Ladycats at State! 110 lb: 3rd place All Region Wrestler Lanie Taylor 130 lb: 2nd place All Region Wrestler Sydney Jones 155 lb: 4th place All Region Wrestler Evergrace Anderson We had a few more barely miss out on qualify for state. 105 lb: 5th place Harlee Pannell 115 lb: 6th place Emmi Hensley 120 lb: 5th place Paisley Burger All together as a team of six wrestlers we finished in 7th place as a team which is a very good job! Congratulations to all our Wrestlers!

Mena Middle School FBLA members attended the Spring Leadership Conference on Wednesday. The following students were recognized at conference for placing in the top 5 of their competition. Atticus Ryan - 3rd place in Exploring Technology Ashton Nordyke - 3rd place in Exploring Economics Makinnely Vega - 2nd place in Exploring Parliamentary Procedures Zahra Sofi - 4th place in Proofreading Francesca Vacca - 1st place in FBLA Concepts Atticus, Ashton, Makinnely, and Francesca advance to state.

NEHS loves MHS! The National English Honor Society celebrated teacher appreciation early with teacher goody bags.

Mena High School FBLA attended the District Spring Leadership Conference in Fort Smith on Wed, Feb 12th. Several came away with awards from their chosen competitions and qualified to compete at State in April: 3rd Business Management - Bryant Thomas and Auden Woods 2nd Cybersecurity - Makenzie Vega 1st Economics - Zach Sweet 1st Graphic Design - Kili Cox 5th Healthcare Administration - Brylee Cox 1st Impromptu Speaking - Elijah Smith 5th Intro to Business Communications - Vaughn Vacca 1st Intro to Business Concepts - Ailiyah McEntire 4th Intro to Business Presentation - Adelhi Look 2nd Intro to Business Procedures - Madison Fowler 5th Intro to Financial Math - Mason Hughes 6th Journalism - Jayla Smith 3rd Marketing - Daniel Edgmon 3rd Sales Presentation - Sophia Cummings and Tessa Williams 2nd Sports & Entertainment Management - Tripp Hensley, Eli Swall, Jackson Thompson 4th Visual Design - Jerzie Abel The following students will compete in events that go straight to state: Broadcast Journalism-Jayden Cox, Addison Thomas, Isabel Vacca Business Plan-Hunter Cannon, Reese Montgomery, Kate Wilson Client Service-Yennyte Tecson Coding & Programming-Jimmy Glenn, Max Rocha, Beck Vacca Digital Video Production- Rylie Bentley, Sailor Stricklin International Business-Carmindy Ashcraft, Kaylee Thomas Congrats and good luck!!!

We finished our first cycle in the weight room! 7th grade did their first ever maxes and 8th graders saw good improvements from their initial maxes. Pictured is Coach Morris’ group , who won the overall competition for the first cycle for the High School.

Holly Harshman Lexia Superstar leveling up

A great day of competition for the Mena Unified Special Olympics Team at the Winter Games in Springdale on Friday. Maddie Fletcher and Kendra Cooper—Gold Daniel Venable and Hunter McClara—Gold Willam Gorsuch and Tripp Hensley—Silver

HHE’s version of “Spotlight Singers” sang the National Anthem this morning during announcements!!

The King of Hearts Pep Rally was held on Friday in the Union Bank Center. Congratulations to JOKIAH LOOK for being crowned the 2025 King of Hearts & Prince Charming CARTER COSSEY.

Four Mena High School students won multiple awards 1st through 3rd at the Mena Art Gallery youth show - Norah Williams, Camilla Booher, and Belle Jaynes, with Kate Wilson receiving "Best in show". Their art pieces will be available to view at the Gallery through February 15.