Pre-k Students create new fuzzy friends during summer camp session
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Pre-k Students create new fuzzy friends during summer camp session
The pre-kindergarten students were buzzing with creativity and excitement, showing off their new stuffed friends to staff and classmates. These children were given the chance to assemble their own personalized stuffed animals by hand during yesterday’s summer camp session on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
Each student who participated went home with a custom stuffed animal, an outfit, a birth certificate and a bag to match. This event was accomplished in collaboration with Fun Stuff Express, an event company located in Long Island, New York that brings the stuff-a-bear workshop to kids all over the state. Not only were the students given a brand new toy to play with, but they also got a chance to exercise their artistic muscles and show off their individual personalities and styles through their new fuzzy friends.
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Caiden Hylton, an 11th grade STEAM Academy student on the Mount Vernon Varsity Wrestling Team, won the Hendrick Hudson Wrestling Tournament, a large competition of over 370 wrestlers, on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Congratulations Caiden!
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The first public reading of an amendment to the Code of Conduct, 7300.60 - Student Searches and Interrogations, was completed at the Regular Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Click here to view the amendment.
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Tara Lattimer-Wilson, school counselor at Denzel Washington School of the Arts, graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1992 and has committed much of her career to working in the school district she was raised in. She began her career in education as an outreach coordinator for the STAR (Success Through Academic Readiness) Program at MVHS. She then became a school counselor in NYC and returned to work Mount Vernon in 2007 as a school counselor.
The Mount Vernon City School District will hold High School Showcase Night for eighth-grade students and their families at Mount Vernon High School on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, from 6 to 8 p.m. Each of the three theme-based high schools – Denzel Washington School of the Arts, Mount Vernon High School, and Mount Vernon STEAM Academy – will highlight what they have to offer to students who are considering their schools.
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Sarah Amer is a star student and highly accomplished senior at Mount Vernon High School who shows a great commitment to her academics, community, and future by giving 100 percent of herself wherever she can. She has already earned college acceptances and scholarships ahead of her graduation in June.
Acting Superintendent Dr. K. Veronica Smith recently held a Zoom meeting with families from Cecil H. Parker School, Mount Vernon Honor Academy and Mount Vernon Leadership Academy, the three schools with proposals to be closed. The District is proposing these closures due to declining enrollment, costly repairs of its older buildings and costs associated with maintaining the K-8 school model, as well as a NYS designation of significant fiscal stress. A long-term solution is essential, but no decisions have been made yet
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Several Mount Vernon City School District students graduated from the Environmental Leaders of Color (ELOC) Technology and the Environment Advanced Computer Program at SUNY Mount Vernon Extension Center on Saturday, December 14, 2024. Students learned Python coding and created online games from scratch using the skills for their final projects. These games included original titles such as Hair Boutique and Fisherman's Game and adaptations of popular games like Blackjack, Sudoku and Ant Farm.