Several MHS
Model United Nations Team members who competed at the virtual Connect Model UN Conference were awarded distinctions. Students from all over the country debated in a simulated United Nations setting. They wrote position papers in advance of the conference, then worked together to write and debate resolutions. Recognized students: Best Delegate:
Juniper Shelley; Distinguished Delegate:
Miles Quarterman; Outstanding Delegate:
Caleb Levine; Best Position Paper:
Lucy Solomon and Palmer Holland; Most Improved:
Dominik Bondy.
Our Board of Education student representative
Genesis Whitlock is offering a weekly online
Zoom chat every Sunday at 6 pm for participants to discuss and share what’s happening in the school district and how we can support each other through this difficult time.
Claire Manning, our National Girls and Women in Sports award winner, was invited to play in the High School All American soccer game in St. Louis, MO the weekend of May 27-29.
MHS senior
Ava Agostinelli was the first place winner in the Pulitzer Center’s Local Letters for Global Change. She is a member of the high school’s Center for Social Justice. Read her
winning entry.
Two groups of high school students have been spending their time on philanthropic efforts for the community.
End the Stigma is a group of about 70 Montclair High School students, primarily sophomores who recently collected items such as stress balls and coloring books for The Jared Box Project, named for a boy who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1999 and died in 2000. The boxes are given to children in rehabilitation and outpatient centers who are dealing with mental health or terminal illness issues.
Another group, the
Helping Hands Project, founded by MHS senior
Lucy Solomon, sold a variety of handmade items on Church Street: earrings, hand-painted holiday cards, stickers, raised $1,000 for the Transgender Law Center. The Helping Hands Project, which now has about 30 people, votes on a cause and an organization to support every year.
Read more about
each of these efforts.