december 5th, 2022
Volume 10 Edition 19
Midland Public Schools District Vision Statement: Lead with respect, trust and courage. Ensure an equitable, collaborative and inclusive culture. Enable all to achieve success.
Parent information committee
Human Body Systems students at MHS are happy to announce they have completed their forensic unit after learning to use anthropological techniques to identify bones through various measurments, and molecular biology techniques to identify DNA samples via Gel electrophoresis. They were also thrilled to have Detective Brent Benzing visit the classrooms to help them understand the why’s of these tasks!
Just a few of the topics the Investigator had students thinking about included how tv and real life cases differ, using loic to make sense of the sometimes illogical, what evidence can tell us, and our innate ability to communicate. After the presentation, there was only one complaint… We wish we had more time to learn from the Detective!
Here are a few of the takeaways from our guest speaker’s presentation, as stated by the students:
“I enjoyed when we got to look at scenes and it was our job to give our ideas of what may have happened and piece clues together. It was nice instead of just hearing about the investigation, we got to figure it out ourselves.”
“Whenever a human being walks into a room, they leave a part of themselves in there. It's just a matter of forensics being able to find it. There's a lot more than than appears with the naked eye.”
“Detective Benzing & the presentation shared ways of testing DNA or evidence and we have learned about how to "test" a skull for identity and other features helpful in finding who it belongs to.”
“I was so interested in that stuff I could listen all day, but s it would have been nice to have more time learning with the Detective.”
We’re grateful for the level of hard work, expertise, and commitment that law enforcement professionals like Detective Benzing bring to Midland County! We’re also grateful that Mr. Benzing expanded his investigative job duties to include teaching at Midland High!
Congratulations to Midland High's newest members of NHS - National Honor Society!
Congratulations to the following Midland Public School band and orchestra students who have been accepted into the Michigan All-State Ensembles! These students passed a blind audition and were selected as the best in the state from 2,364 applicants. They will represent Midland Public Schools at the Michigan Music Conference in January.
- Emma An – Jefferson, Viola
- Mia Bayardo – Dow, String Bass
- Autumn Brutyn – Midland, French Horn
- Ben Bucci – Midland, French Horn
- Katie Cai – Jefferson, Viola
- Owen DeLong – Dow, Trombone Honorable Mention
- Zaky El-Nachef – Dow, Violin
- Audrey Fanning – Dow, Viola
- Daniel Farison – Northeast, Trombone
- Emilia Garces – Jefferson, String Bass
- Anna Gessford – Midland, Clarinet Honorable Mention
- Logan Gessford – Northeast, Trombone
- George Gu – Dow, Viola
- Jordis Havens – Northeast, Tuba Honorable Mention
- Emma Huang – Jefferson, Clarinet
- Louis Huang – Dow, Clarinet
- Elliot King – Northeast, Trumpet
- Ian Koh – Jefferson, Violin Honorable Mention
- Sarah Li – Dow, Viola
- Sydney Ma – Jefferson, Viola
- Ashley Pietrzak – Northeast, French Horn
- Boaz Qiu – Dow, Violin
- Hope Ridley – Dow, Violin
- Samuel Ringgold – Midland, Alto Sax
- Elijah Skutt – Midland, Trumpet
- Seoyeon Yoo – Jefferson, Viola
Siebert Girl Scout Troop #50474 welcomed three students from a Calvary Baptist middle school robotics team to their meeting two weeks ago, where they demonstrated their robot and worked with the Girl Scouts to create three unique robots out of Legos!
Siebert students enjoyed a visit from Dow High Lacrosse Coach Mr. Stadelmaier! This Saturday, December 10th, students can try lacrosse for free at the Midland Civic Arena! For more information, visit Midland.lax.com.
Midland Public Schools would like to celebrate our 10-year PYP journey with a Learner Profile Day for all our elementary and pre-k students! On December 7, Students and staff are encouraged to use their creativity to dress like one of the attributes of the Learner Profile. This is not meant to be a burden of shopping and planning, but rather an opportunity to get creative with items found at home! Please reference the flyer for inspiration and ideas for each Learner Profile trait. We can’t wait to see the Learner Profile in action and celebrate how far we have come in our PYP journey as a district.
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