Student Achieves Top ACT Score of 36

Please join the Mustang community in congratulating Sree Subramanian, a sophomore at MHHS who earned the HIGHEST possible ACT composite score of 36!  On average, only around one-tenth of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score.  In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2017, only 2,760 out of more than 2 million graduates who took the ACT earned a composite score of 36.
The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores.  While test scores are just one of multiple criteria that most colleges consider when making admission decisions, an exceptional ACT composite score proves helpful when prusuing education and career goals.
The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement exam that measures what students have learned in school. Students who earn a 36 composite score have likely mastered all of the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in first-year college courses in the core subject areas.
ACT scores are accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities across the U.S.

Jacqueline Prawira WINS at Broadcom MASTERS

We are excited to announce Jacqueline Prawira won the 2018 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation, with a cash prize of $10,000! She was one of the four Grand Prize winners!

Jacqueline participated in an extraordinary experience last week in Washington D.C. that was packed with vigorous activities, such as:

- project showcase at the National Geographic Museum

- 2 days of team building STEM challenges

- photo shoots and interviews, including with Washington Post

- Capitol Hill trip to meet with representatives, like Congressman Jerry Mcnerney, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Dianne Feinstein

- a special field trip to the White House to meet with STEM officials

- a very special and unexpected meeting with Ivanka Trump

In Jacqueline's own words she stated  "The knowledge and experience I gained as a Broadcom MASTERS finalist was an incomparably elucidating and priceless opportunity. It has opened my eyes to a whole new dimension of thinking, analyzing, and problem-solving."

Check out these posts and videos all about Jacqueline's accomplishments at the Broadcom MASTERS awards ceremony:

https://www.facebook.com/153646144697601/posts/2035471313181732/

https://www.facebook.com/153646144697601/posts/2036100293118834/

https://www.facebook.com/IvankaTrump/videos/346142935959190/

Football League Champions

Please congratulate the Varsity Football Team for posting a 9-1 regular season and earning a piece of the WAC League Championship!  This is a season of "Firsts" for our Football program.  We will host our First Play-off Game this Friday, November 11/2/18 at 7:00 P.M. at "The Range."

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING IN REGARDS TO TICKET PRICES:
NO ASB or Family Passes are allowed at playoff games.  Prices for playoff tickets are as follows:

Adults:  $10
Seniors (age 60 and above):  $7
Students (K-12):  $7
Children (age 5 and under):  Free

What kind of day is it?

IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE A MUSTANG!

Drama Club Movie Night

“Hey Mustangs! Time to get your fright on with the Drama Club  at our Movie Night on Monday, October 29th at 7pm! We will be watching Hocus Pocus! It’s a fundraiser for our upcoming trip to New York City and we’d love for you to come out! Admission is free but we are asking donations! We will be selling concessions throughout the night so make sure to bring your friends, families and blankets!

Glee Club Broadway Costume Party

The MHHS Glee Club is having Broadway Costume Party in the MPR after school on October 31st. The concert’s theme is spooky songs and broadway musical performances. There will be food and drinks for sale at the event. Admission costs $4 dollars for adults and $3 dollars for students. The event will start immediately after school on Halloween Day, so the club invites you to come dressed in a costume. See you there!

TeenTechSF Global Civic Hackathon

This past weekend, Computer Science and Hackathon Clubs attended the TeenTechSF Global Civic Hackathon to develop IT solutions to solve Community Problems. They were given 5 prompts concerning Civic issues such as energy consumption and waste, homelessness, human rights, food scarcity, and sexual harassment.

Our three teams worked for 14 hours to design their IT solutions to one of these problems. All worked hard and learned new things they had not explored in their programming courses. All presented their ideas to a panel of industry judges. All received positive comments.

Advithi Kethidi, Siddharth Krishna, and Kaleb Paul created an App to inform users of the UN Human Rights document and ways to petition governments to accept the document.

Pranav Krishna, Saikrishna Mittapalli, and Holland Pleakac created and App for users to call for help. The app utilizes the community as a whole to mobilize and offer aid to those around them until Paramedics and police arrive.

Jacob Robertson, Julian Sta Cruz, and Taylor Chin created an app to calculate an individuals energy consumption and detail the amount of carbon footprint that was created. It then offers suggestions for reduction of the carbon footprint and uses game theory to incentivize users to make changes to their energy usage.

In the end one of our teams won.

Football Senior Night--FREE for K-8 Students

Tonight is our Senior Night for Football and Marching Band!  This year, all K-8 students in the Lammersville Unified School District get in for FREE if they are wearing their school spirit wear.  Varsity game starts at 7pm!  BE THERE!

HOSA Haunted House

It's an annual tradition.  Come be scared by our SPOOKY Haunted Hospital, run by our HOSA club. 

Lady Mustangs Varsity Tennis

The undefeated MHHS Lady Mustangs Varsity Tennis Team will take on the Rams of Dixon High in the first round of the SAC-SAN JOAQUIN sectional playoffs at home on Wednesday October 31 at 2 pm.  Come out to the tennis courts along Tradition Street to come watch our champs play!

Mustang Brigade Places 2nd in Dublin Tournament

Please help us to congratulate the MHHS Mustang Brigade Marching band on their 2nd place finish this past weekend in Dublin. They were in competition with 7 other Bands and did a great job representing the school and community.

Homecoming Parade

ID Card Sweep

ID cards are our first line of defense in identifying who is on our campus.  With safety being a hot-button issue in our schools today, it is essential that we be able to identify our students at our school quickly and efficiently.  As a result, we are emphasizing the expectation for ALL of our students, faculty, and staff to wear their ID cards ALL of the time. 

Today, we had a very successful ID check.  All students on campus ended the day with an ID card or will receive it during 1st period tomorrow morning.  If students were absent today and don't have an ID card please be sure to stop by the school bank first thing in the morning to get an ID card printed.  We want to let all students know that moving forward we will have routine ID Sweeps which means all students without ID's will be sent to the office and given consequences.

Please remember that the ID card must be worn and visible all day on the upper part of a student's body.  We are making this a huge school wide effort as the importance of being able to identify anyone one campus at all times helps keep our campus safe.

Homecoming Dance

What:  Homecoming Dance
When:  Saturday, October 20th 7pm-11pm
Where:  MHHS Multi-Use Room
Attire:  Semi-Formal

Come join us for our 5th Annual Homecoming Dance.  This year our dance is on Saturday Evening, and will be a semi-formal event!  We are excited to welcome our students back, and celebrate the winning season for our sports and academic teams.  Tickets are available at the school bank

ASB Card Prices
Single $7
Couple $13

No ASB Prices
Single $10
Couple $18

Winter Sports Try-outs are HERE!

-Important Winter Sports Information-

Please see below for details and information in regards to the start of all of our Winter Sports Teams. All questions specific to each sport can be sent to the head coaches email which can be found below.

All general athletic questions can be sent to the Athletic Director, Mrs. Woods- lwoods@lammersvilleusd.net

 We hope to see some new and returning faces for our Winter Sports Season!

Boys Basketball
Coach: Nolan Dixon, ndixon@lammersvilleusd.net
Conditioning/workouts start   10/8 – 10/16 Mon – Fri  7pm to 9pm
Tryouts will be held on 10/29, 10/30, & 10/31
Boys Basketball Website

Girls Basketball
Coach: Reno Ursal, rursal@lammersvilleusd.net
Conditioning/workouts start TBA
Tryouts will be held on 10/29, 10/30, & 10/31
Girls Basketball Website

Boys Soccer
Coach: Francisco Soto, fsoto@lammervilleusd.net
Conditioning/workouts start 10/16 – 10/26 Mon - Thurs
Tryouts will be held on 10/29, 10/30, & 10/31
Boys Soccer Website

Girls Soccer
Coach: Kevin Iwanaga, kiwanaga@lammersvilleusd.net
Conditioning/workouts start 10/8 – 10/16 Mon & Fri  4pm to 5:30pm
Tryouts will be held on 10/29, 10/30, & 10/31
Girls Soccer Website

Wrestling
Coach: Tim Cantu, tcantu@lammersvilleusd.net
Conditioning/workouts start 10/15 Mon – Fri
Tryouts will be held on 10/29, 10/30, & 10/31
Wrestling Website

Please save the following link to the practice calendar for all sports.  https://mountainhouseathletics.com/practice-schedules/

 *All Winter student athletes will need to apply for athletic clearance ASAP to be eligible for the Winter Sports Season. The clearance process can take up to 5 school days.

To access the athletic clearance page click here.

Girls Tennis WINS again!

The MHHS Girls Varsity Tennis team recently traveled to Modesto to take on the Patriots of Beyer High.  While some of the matches were closer this time, the final result was never in doubt as the Mustangs once again won all the matches 9-0.  Top performer today were Ify Ikechiuku and Crystal Chum  who won their match at #1 doubles with a score of 6-0, 6-0.  The girls also won on Wednesday the 10th at Pacheco High School.  This means that our Girls tennis team is UNDEFEATED!  Next up is our tennis match at Ceres on Monday the 15th.  Good luck to our Lady Mustang Tennis Team!

MHHS Mustang Brigade Band

Please Join us in congratulating the Mustang Brigade Band for placing 1st this past weekend in Modesto at Johanson High School. They also earned special awards in High Music, Percussion, Visual Effect, and General Effect. Great Job Mustangs!

Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences

Sign up for your conference time slot here:  http://tinyurl.com/MHHSConf1819

Monday October 15th is the date for this year’s Parent-Teacher-Student conferences.  This will be an opportunity for parents and students to come to the school and sit down for brief conferences with your child’s teachers.  We recommend that if your student is struggling with their grade in any of their classes that you plan on attending this conference.  

We would like to take this opportunity to provide information to you regarding the format of our Parent-Teacher-Student conferences.  The format for these conferences is different than what parents may be familiar with at the elementary school level.  Conferences begin at 1:00pm on Monday the 15th in the Large Gym.  We require that parents sign up for one time-slot to come to conferences.  We encourage you to bring your student with you so that when you conference with the teachers, all individuals involved in the success of the student are present.  THERE WILL BE NO CONFERENCES ON TUESDAY THE 16th.  Tuesday is an early release day where all students and teachers go home early due to the conferences on Monday night.

When you arrive to conferences at your predetermined time, conferences will be on a first-come, first-served basis.  Teachers will will be sitting at individual tables around the Large Gym.  Parents and students will line up behind the teachers they want to conference with.  Conferences in this format are brief 3-5 minute conversations with your child’s teacher in regards to their progress in the class.  Your child’s report card will have been mailed home and available on Aeries Parent Portal previous to parent-teacher-student conferences, so you may want to focus on the courses where your child struggles the most.  Some things you may want to address in these brief conferences include the following:

Assignments/Missing assignments

Assessments/Tests

Student in-class participation/behavior

Strengths

Areas for improvement

If your brief conference is not enough time to address all of the concerns you may have with your child’s teacher, you may need to schedule a longer conference with your child’s teacher in order to discuss strategies and solutions for your students.  Our aim is to answer as many questions about your child’s progress as possible during the parent-teacher-student conference.  

Administrators and Counselors will also be available during Parent-Teacher-Student conferences to discuss your child’s progress and answer any questions you may have about your student’s education here at Mountain House High School.  To sign up for your conference time please visit our sign-up link at http://tinyurl.com/MHHSConf1819 

All-County Honor Choir

Join us in congratulating our students who auditioned and were accepted into this year's county honor choir.  These students prepared and recorded their audition and were selected to participate in the choir based on their knowledge of music, and their ability to sing.  Every student who auditioned from MHHS was accepted into this elite choir.  Please join me in congratulating:
Kayla Anselmo
Isabelle Asuncion
Gabriela Cuellar
Meilani Fobert
Sheryl Victor
Astrid Mann
Neale Baria
Marcello DeGuzman Antonio
Joshua Ng
Mathew Sahim

Spirit of Community Awards Application

Are you a student who is looking to make a big difference in the world and in your community through volunteerism?  If you are, we encourage you to apply for the 2019 Spirit of Community Awards.  Your application makes you eligible to be recognized here in Mountain House as a local Honoree, and qualifies you to be entered into the State and National Recognition of this prestigious award.  During the National recognition event in Washington D.C., America's top 10 youth volunteers of  the year will be named by a selection committee, and will receive a $5000 scholarship, and $5000 to give to a non-profit organization of their choice.

If you have participated in community service activities over the past year, and would like to fill out an application visit nassp.org/spirit and fill out the online application by the deadline on November 6, 2018.  Local Honorees will be identified by the end of November, and will be eligible to go on to the state-level honors.  State level honorees will be announced in February 2018, and will receive an all expense paid trip to Washington D.C. next spring for four days of special recognition events.
We look forward to congratulating our local honorees here in Mountain House very soon!