MVRHS

Martha's Vineyard Regional High School

MVRHS Recognized for Tolerance Efforts

Designated ‘Mix It Up’ Model School by the Southern Poverty Law Center MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program has named Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School as a Mix It Up Model School for its exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among its students and throughout its campus during the 2014-15 school year. The SPLC became aware of MVRHS through the Brazilian-American Friendship Lunch. Social Studies teacher Elaine Weintraub, who has spearheaded the event over the last five years. Ms. Weintraub describes the lunch as an "annual event... intended to build understanding and create opportunities for meaningful dialog between our Read More / Leia mais

MVRHS chess team reaches league championship finals

On March 24th, chess team captain Lee Faraca will lead our school to the Southeastern Interscholastic Chess League championship finals. MVRHS will play Fairhaven High School for the league championship beginning with two matches on Tuesday, March 24th at MVRHS. The first team to win two matches will become the 2015 league champion. Lee, who has been a member of the high school's chess team since he was in third grade, will complete his high school chess career tied with Eric Herman, class of 2005, for the total number of years as a high school chess team member. -Dan Sharkovitz Read More / Leia mais

Chris Aring wins first place overall at Regional Science Fair – will head to International Science Fair in May

Congratulations to Nils Aldebourgh, Rose Engler and Chris Aring, who represented MVRHS at the South Shore Regional Science Fair at Bridgewater State University.  Nils won third place and is eligible to compete in the  Massachusetts State Science & Engineering Fair, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 30th. Chris won first place overall at the event for his Augmented Reality Sandtable. He will represent the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a finalist at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in Pittsburgh in May. Read More / Leia mais

Congratulations to MVRHS art award winners!

Congratulations to MVRHS senior Jack Yuen for winning TWO national silver medals at the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, announced yesterday afternoon. While we're awaiting details, traditionally there is a ceremony at Carnegie Hall and an exhibit of work at a gallery in Manhattan. His two awards are for a digital illustration – "Nautical Spirit" – and a painting, "Acid Rap". In other departmental news: • Congratulations to Isabelle Crawford, Ewellen Carlos, Grace Kenney, Hailey Rogers, Jessica Sonia, Nicholas Chapman, Sequoia Ahren, and Amber Medeiros for winning awards in the Cape Cod Times' "Classroom Times" photography contest. Their work was featured in a special Read More / Leia mais

Sweeping you away with science today!

March Engineering Challenge Results Each month, our students will have the opportunity to compete in our after-school Engineering Challenge. The goals of the Challenge include: 1) providing students an opportunity to experience authentically and firsthand the process of engineering as they work as engineers to complete a design challenge 2) providing students an opportunity to work as a group to collaborate and communicate to achieve a common goal 3) providing students an opportunity to compete as an academic team in a different type of competition than our yearly science fair, thus expanding the opportunitites for students to gain recognition for their accomplishments in Read More / Leia mais

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