Mena School District

Today is School Bus Driver Appreciation Day ! The Mena School District would like to offer much deserved recognition to the people we rely on to safely transport our students. If you have the opportunity please give thanks to your Mena bus drivers.

There was lots of fun at the MMS Science Night!

On Wednesday first year Mena FFA members were initiated during the annual Greenhand Ceremony! Once the ceremony was over Greenhands went into the shop and dipped a hand in green dye solidifying their initiation into FFA.

Leveled up!

Mena High School seniors attended the Career Connect event at the Ouachita Center on the campus of UA Rich Mountain on Tuesday. The Career Connect Reverse Career Fair is a joint effort with five area high schools showcasing our seniors to the local employers.

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!!