Marion County Schools

April is Month of the Military Child. Join Marion County Schools next week in celebrating spirit week to honor of military families, soldiers and veterans.

Attention Graduating MCS Seniors: Fairmont State has annual scholarships for STEM majors. West Virginia is filled with STEM talent. This program focuses on increasing enrollment, retention, and graduation of academically talented, low-income STEM students through special activities, scholarships, cohort building, networking, and curricular and co-curricular support. If you’re selected as an S-STEM Program Scholar, you’ll benefit from a student-driven support system and receive personal attention from peer and faculty mentors. Scholarship amounts will vary from student to student, and will be based on unmet financial need, but the average scholarship amount will be $6250.00 annually. Scholars who maintain satisfactory progress toward any of the STEM degrees listed on the reverse will be eligible to keep their scholarships for four years. The total average scholarship for four years is around $25,000. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS • You must be an incoming Freshman at FSU. • You must have a 2.75 GPA or better. • You must demonstrate your financial need (using your FAFSA). • You will complete two assessments online (more information on these assessments will be sent to you when you indicate your interest in the program). • You will be asked to complete a Field Experience Day on Fairmont State’s campus. This event will be in person (or virtual based on current Fairmont State COVID-19 protocols). More information will be sent when you indicate your interest in the program.

Beginning April 4, 2022, board meetings will be broadcast at https://www.marionboe.com/page/meeting-livestream

MCS announces its Career, College and Industry Fair for grades 5-12 on April 26, 2022 at Fairmont Senior Fieldhouse.

Talk. Sing. Read. Succeed. The Marion County Family Literacy Fair is back face-to-face this year! 📚 💙Are you a vendor or donor who is interested in supporting our families? Call 304-367-2100 Ext. 127.

Congratulations to The Disability Action Center on the building dedication today. We celebrate the support that is provided to our students and families in Marion County Schools. The DAC serves over 450 children and adults with disabilities and families in Marion, Monongalia, Harrison, Taylor, and Barbour.

Congratulations to the Marion County bands that were among the over 2,000 musicians that participated in the Region 10 Band Festival this week. It is one of 10 Regional Band Festivals throughout the State of West Virginia, which are held each year and sponsored by the Secondary Schools Activities Commission in conjunction with the West Virginia Bandmasters Association. The rating represents the overall average score given by the three judges that reviewed each band's performance of two pieces performed. East Fairmont High School and West Fairmont Middle 7th and 8th grades were among the bands receiving superior ratings. See all results below. Ratings of Comments Only indicate that bands requested only comments and not a rating. There were 17 high school and 28 middle schools performing this week. The five counties representing Region 10 are Monongalia, Marion, Preston, Taylor and Harrison.

Educators, students, and those interested in aviation: On April 28, 2022, a virtual event for middle school and high school students nationwide is offered. STEM opportunities will be on full display as the FAA teams up with groups outside the agency to spark interest in aviation careers. See https://avsstemcareersymposium.vfairs.com/en/

State Treasurer Riley Moore presents a check for $115,841.60 to Marion County Schools for unclaimed property today. Treasurer Scott Reider completed the application to the claims. Learn more at https://wv.findyourunclaimedproperty.com/.

Happy Retirement to Mattie Vincent, who has served Marion County Schools for 24 years. We will miss your dedication, work ethic, high standards, and support.

Due to power outage, Mannington Middle is closed today, March 31, 2022.

Former Marion County Schools and WV State Teacher of the Year and National Teacher of Year Finalist Toni Poling presents at the Marion County New Teacher Academy. Ms. Poling, a Nationally Board Certified teacher, presented Disrupting Thinking and Why How We Read Matters.

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Working to make improvements in Child Nutrition: A break in the weather and Monongah Middle is getting a refrigeration unit set on the roof for new walk in freezer and refrigerator.

NMHS Actors Bring Home State Recognitions: This year, North Marion High School’s one act play, The Miser, by Moliere, won one of the top 5 outstanding one acts out of 12 competing schools from around the state. Abigail Smith, junior, won second place in stage-management out of the 12 schools competing. Anna Smith and Eva Tennat, both juniors, won the all-festival cast award. Senior Sunni Bartlett was awarded the Steve Glendenning Memorial Scholarship for excellence in performance, a cash prize of $1,000. She also was selected out of over 100 other student actors and won one of the two best actors. Sunni has also been selected to receive the Fairmont Arts and Humanities award for excellence in theatre. She's been a four year theatre student at NMHS and also won best actor overall at the 2021 West Virginia Theatre Association High School Play Festival.

We think our West Virginia kids are incredible! For the past two years, kids from all over the state have inspired us with their inherent spirit, resilience, kindness, drive, and talent—which is how we have decided to define “incredible.” Do you know a kid in West Virginia who meets this definition? We want to hear about them! From March 28 to April 17, 2022, WV Living magazine and WVU Medicine Children’s will be accepting nominations for Incredible Kids. Then, from April 18 to 24, readers will vote on their favorite kids, and the top contenders will be featured in the Summer issue of WV Living. And because all of these kids are winners, their profiles will be listed in print and live on our website for all to see and celebrate, and we’ll send them all special swag bags just for being so awesome. To nominate: https://wvliving.com/incredible-kids-2022

“What a Feeling” to hear live music on the stage of East Fairmont High School as the Busy Bee Band and Honeybees, under the direction of TJ Bean and Choreographer Kelly Michael, present the 48th Annual Follies this weekend. From the Beatles to fairy tales to tributes to the landscapes of “Almost Heaven” to America the Beautiful, MCS is proud of the hard work and talents of some of our finest.

Marion County Schools salutes all of our veterans today on National Medal of Honor Day (1990) and every day. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the U.S. government. It is earned for “meritorious actions above and beyond the call of duty.”

How appropriate to celebrate North Marion Senior and Marion County’s first WV Rhododendron Girls State Governor Sidney Megna today during Women’s History Month. To learn more about becoming the next female leader, visit https://wvgirlsstate.org/ or see your school counselor.

“I’m Still Standing” is what MCS middle school students sang tonight at the 49th Annual Margaret Pantalone All County Choir Concert with Guest Conductor Dr. Kym Scott of WVU.