With summer over half over it is time to start thinking about getting ready for the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.  This year at MHS there are many new changes; school ID cards, lunch procedures, transcript request procedures, sports fees and passes, and the new registration days.  It is very important that students/parents plan on attending one of the new registration days, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, or Thursday, Aug.19, 2010, from 2:00-7:00 PM.  At this event students will receive back-to-school materials, have school pictures taken, receive student ID cards, purchase school lunches, gym uniforms, and sports passes, and have many other opportunities.  Please take a few moments to go to the Parent Page link and preview this information.

STEVENS POINT – The Marathon High School Math Team recently completed a successful season in the three part Central Wisconsin Math League held at UW—Stevens Point.    The team placed first out of fourteen schools in division three.  Eighteen students competed in three different specialty areas including Geometry, Algebra and Advanced Math.  Each of the past twenty years the MHS Mathletics team has finished in the top six schools in their division with finishes in first or second place in ten of those seasons.  This year the team was led by individual performances by Jordan Ho, Brad Stieber, Logan Viegut, Tori Blume and Dayton Hamann.  Jordan Ho received first place in the Advanced problem solving category and earned an individual award for the fifth year in a row.  Brad Stieber finished second place in the Algebra category, while Tori Blume, Logan Viegut and Dayton Hamann finished 6^th, 7^th and 10^th in their respective categories.  The Central Wisconsin Math League, concluding its 40^th year in existence, is a joint venture sponsored by UW—Stevens Point, Sentry Insurance, Travel Guard and Wausau Benefits in an effort to encourage higher level, mathematical problem solving skills in high school students.

The 56^th Wisconsin Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference was hosted in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, on April 12 and 13, 2010.  The State Leadership Conference brought outstanding young adults together for an unforgettable experience.  This year, over 2,300 students, advisers, and guests participated in this conference.

Our local chapter, Marathon High School, sent 60 members to the conference.  The chapter results include:  2^nd highest market share (percentage of students at high school in FBLA) for high schools, 8^th largest chapter membership in the state, 7^th place chapter overall out of over 160 chapters.

The Marathon chapter FBLA is sending five members to the national competition to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, from July 14-17, 2010.  The following students qualified for Nationals:  Jordan Ho 2^nd Place—Economics; Greyson Bahr 2^nd Place—Marketing; Donna Blume 2^nd Place—Electronic Career Portfolio; Lisa Krautkramer 2^nd Place—Future Business Leader; Kelli Lane 3^rd Place—Networking Concepts. 

In addition, the following students placed in the top ten at state:   Ellen Zimmel, Jacee Anderson, Jordyn Schemenauer 3^rd Place—Local Chapter Annual Business Report; Geralyn Granger 4^th Place—Networking Concepts; Dayton Hamann 5^th Place—Introduction to Business; Brock Geise 7^th Place—Accounting II; Brennan Sedivy 7^th Place—Computer Problem Solving; Crystal Lane, Jessica Hack, Amanda Krautkramer, Mandy Goetsh, Ashley Butalla 8^th Place—Parliamentary Procedure; Meghan Tharaldson, Morgan Dirks, Alex Boehm 8^th Place—Business Plan; Avery Seubert, Hannah Seubert, Alysssa Sauter 8^th Place—Community Service Project; Lisa Krautkramer 8^th Place—Who’s Who in FBLA; Nicole Heise 9^th Place—Economics; Ericka Braatz 10^th Place—Accounting 1.

Marathon captured the Division IV Championship at the State Academic Decathlon contest held March 11 & 12 in Wisconsin Dells. This is the team’s 8^th state title, and their 6^th in the last 9 years.

Several Marathon students won individual awards:  Ben Wesolowski’s essay earned 2^nd place in the Scholastic category. Jordan Ho won 2^nd place in the Honors category for both Mathematics and Science. Varsity student Shawn Pierce also was a double winner, earning 3^rd place bronze medals in Interview and Essay. Honors student Emily Hilts won the gold in Economics, earning 940 out of a possible 1000 points. Emily also was the team’s top scholar for the 2^nd year in a row, tying Andrea Metz for the school record with 7470 points.

The team will represent Wisconsin, competing against 17 other schools in an online small school national competition.

On April 12, Marathon’s Economics Challenge Teams competed in the State level contest held at the Northwestern Mutual Life building in Milwaukee. The team of Luke Fairchild, Nicole Heise, Emily Hilts, and Jordan Ho took 2^nd place in the Adam Smith Honors division. Badger High School in Lake Geneva was the winner in a very close contest; Wilmot Union High School finished third. Emma Allmann, Trevor Beatty, Donna Blume, and Brad Stieber took home the first place trophy in the David Ricardo division, defeating teams from Kettle Moraine and Ashwaubenon. This is the 3^rd year in a row that Marathon has won the David Ricardo Division of this contest. “Ricardo’s Raiders” will represent Wisconsin in the National Finals in an online contest to be held April 26.