Solon Salutes: 2018-19: Week 42

A Solon Salute to the Class of 2019. They participated in their senior day of service through the rain on Wednesday. They removed 9,000 pounds (!) of old materials from the UES basement, and helped refresh the MHS garden space. A few pizzas made it into the pizza kiln too. You all did a great job, thank you! And thanks to Liz Swindell, Adina Trager, Mr. Sabo, Tom Allen, Mr. Bromley, and Mr. McLane for their help in organizing and leading the day.

A Solon Salute to MHS Ultimate Teams. On Thursday night the boys' and the girls' took home the first ever VPA Varsity Ultimate championships and they did so right here at MHS! This is the first year of official Varsity Ultimate in Vermont, but when you consider the previous years as a club sport--this is three in a row for our girls' team! Wow!! And even better--they won the spirit award this year too. Congrats to both teams, you make us proud. Semi-Finals on WCAX (at minute 2:50), Finals on WCAX, Boys in Times Argus, Girls in Times Argus.

A Solon Salute to all of the sophomore students, teachers, and community partners who worked together collaboratively, creatively and reflectively on the BLUEPRINTS: MAPPING OUR CONNECTIONS THROUGH EMPATHY project. Thursday evenings project culminating art installation at MHS was simply stunning! Many thanks to the core faculty project team of Cathy Butterfield, Katy Chabot, Hilary Goldblatt and Sarah Squier for their dedication, vision, and persistence with the project. And special thanks to resident artists and community partners, Evan Premo, Gowri Savoor, Mary Wesley, Theresa Murray Clasen and Paul Gambill and our many many community members who volunteered to be interviewed as part of the Blueprints project. Ohhhhh.... and two more appreciations go to Adam Blair and Sue Monmaney for their strong technical support of preparing the installation. What a fantastic project! Well done Solons.

A Unified Solon Salute to the Unified Bocce Team for their super fine individual and team performances at the Vermont State Unified Schools Bocce Tournament on May 24th in St. Albans. Great season, lawn rollers: Robbie Gibson, Destiny Roberts, Kat Pringles, Curtis Hayden, bob Powell, Damon Cadwell Dunham, Owen Carswell, Sophia Robins, Luke Brassard, Alex Boes, Jack LaPera and Grace Murphy.

A Solon Salute to the MHS Track Team and Coach Reid. Congrats on a great season and to all those who participated in the State Championship last weekend. To see all of the results: 802timing

A Solon Salute to the MHS Boosters. Thank you for your continued dedication, care, and support again this year!

A Solon Salute to Marley Coolidge for creating and engaging in an innovative STEM based Independent Study at the Mountain Center in Worcester, VT. Marley's work with their Independent Study mentors/advisors, Dave Bennett and Anne Watson, centered on agriculture, ecological systems and climate change. Marley did a fantastic job in their Independent Study "defense" this week and demonstrated rich knowledge and understanding of their work, learning and growth. Marley - great job, we salute you!

A Solon Salute to everyone at MHS for the fun awards assembly on Friday! It ended up getting a little warm, but it was still nice to be outside on such a beautiful morning.

Thanks to the members of the band who played

All of the students standing in this picture (75?! or more) participated in at least one flexible pathway

Seniors did a great job all day!

Class of '94 Mike Burzycki "paid his debt", donating $7,000!! And then he ran into William Shatner at the airport in the afternoon. No joke!! Live Long and Prosper.

Solon Salute Award Winner, Des Roberts

Solon Salute Award Winner, Sophia Robins

A Solon Salute to Kylie Nelson for her successful completion of her auto-mechanics centered CBL experience and well done presentation of learning.

A Solon Salute to Celeste Leendertse who found $25 in cash and turned it in to the front office. The owner identified the money and it was returned. Thank you for your honesty and integrity Celeste!

A Solon Salute to Tom Allen, Sue Monmaney, and Adam Blair. These three who make so many things go at MHS were setting up the senior breakfast on Friday by 7:15am. We tried to have Adam just enjoy the breakfast and not work so much, but he can't resist.

A Solon Salute to Blake Bailey for his award at the career center--Epic Super-villain Award. 😂

A Solon Salute to the MHS jazz students, Neil Rohan, Evan Rohan, Grace Carlomagno, Charlie Watson, Eleanor Braun, and Mary Margaret Page. They performed in Burlington for this week's jazz festival, and Charlie and Evan played with the VT All-State band last week too. Well done!

A Solon Salute to Lou Cecere for a great first year working at MHS. We're lucky to have you! And...Lou has had this coffee cup for 23 years, eco-friendly and loyal!

Summer Learning and Work Opportunity

You can earn academic credit and pay while tending to the greenhouses, gardens, chickens, bees, fish, and pizza oven at Montpelier High School! There are still a few spots open for Food, Farm, and Society. If you have any questions, contact Tom Sabo (toms@mpsvt.org). More information and an application can be found here: