#PointerNation News

Ella Horsfall is the Mineral Point Middle School 2024 Spelling Bee Champion and Hannah Coniber is Runner-Up! Congrats to all participants!

-- Hannah Coniber, Ella Horsfall, Boden Chambers, Sophia Erickson, Chloe Kroll, Suttyn Weinbrenner, Levi Jones, Ezequiel Renderos, Rowan Martin, Griffin Soldner, Jaxon Schultz, Owen Leonard, Calum Brunson, Adam Bonnell, Carter Weitzel, Clayton Nothem, and Traevyn Galle.

Ella and Hannah will now compete in the CESA 3 Regional Spelling Bee in the auditorium at Southwest Technical College on Wednesday, January 24. Boden will be the alternate. Winners will advance from this contest to the State Spelling Bee to be held in Madison on March 15.

Keeley Eagan is the Mineral Point Elementary School 2024 Grades 3-5 Spelling Bee Champion, Liam Bonnett is Runner-Up, and Madison Michel is our 3rd place finisher! Congrats to all participants!

-- Corrina Jaxzczak, Ella Fischer, Keeley Eagan, Jett Eggers, Callie Leuthold, Madison Michel, Joseph Fischer, Paxton Blanchard, Ralph Leonard, Kendal Carey, Liam Bonnett, Eli Bergstrom, Jaden Cassidy, Gracyn Walter, and Dekker Potterton.

Keeley and Liam will now compete in the CESA 3 Regional Spelling Bee in the auditorium at Southwest Technical College on Wednesday, January 24.

Best of luck!

Penny Miles is the Mineral Point Elementary School 2024 Junior Spelling Bee Champion, Brooklyn Allendorf is Runner-Up, and Amelia Tupper is our 3rd place finisher! Congrats to all participants!

-- Colt Brinkman, Brooklyn Bawden, Lennon Hanek, Maya Weier, Jordyn Jelle, Amelia Tupper, Penny Miles, Harper Skelding, Brooklyn Allendorf, and Brogan Heins.

Mrs. Martin’s Personal Finance class is currently studying an "In The Workforce" unit. A recent lesson was about interviews. Students split into four groups. With the interview questions drawn at random, each group member was asked a question and their group scored them based on clarity and quality. After three rounds of questions, scores were tallied and the four top scorers were sent to the interview showdown!

-- 3rd hour Personal Finance finalists included: Maci Muchow, Izzy Dannenberg, Christopher Halvorson, and Carter Schilling.

-- 9th hour Personal Finance finalists included: Matthew Goninen, Michael Edgington, Preston Lease, and Annie Robinson.

The pressure was on! These interviewees had to sit in the front of the class and get interviewed by Mrs. Martin, with questions again being drawn randomly from a pool of 24 questions. The rest of the class scored the interviewees based on the same criteria listed above.

With a top score of 285 points, the 3rd hour winner was Maci Muchow!

With a top score of 218 points, the 9th hour winner was Preston Lease!

Great job, all!

“I can change the world with my own two hands.” Students learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and painted their own two hands to remind themselves that they can change the world, too.

Congrats to our musicians selected for the Wisconsin Concert Band Association's Senior High All-State Band -- Libby Dunn, Gracie Foster, Morgan Palzkill, Abby Webb, Elliott Webb, and James Webb -- along with Henry Chapman in the Junior High All-State Band! The concert was held Saturday at UW-Whitewater.

Congrats to our three #PointerNation Wrestlers who headed to JV State at Wausau West last Saturday -- Emmett Collins (150#), Cole Pautz (132#), and Johnny Robinson (106#)!

Last week, all seven of our Mineral Point School Board members attended the 103rd Wisconsin State Education Convention in Milwaukee! This annual event brought together 3,000 education leaders from around the state for inspirational speakers, workshops, and networking around ideas, lessons learned, and best practices. We'd like to thank our Board members for taking time away from family and work to invest in our district. Other #PointerNation highlights from convention included:

-- Superintendent Mitch Wainwright and Communications Director Joelle Doye were selected to present a breakout session on the importance of school district communication

-- Board President Aaron Dunn and Chuck Tennessen presented in the exhibit hall regarding environmental efforts in our schools including our MPHS Earth Wise Club, as well as programs such as the Penny-Smart & Earth-Wise Story Contest from the Driftless Area Land Conservancy. They are pictured with Evonne Waugh (Midwest Renewable Energy Association) and Brett Jenkin (Clean, Local Energy Alliance - Now!)

1st graders traveled to Antarctica! They learned about the polar region, animals that live there, and tried on snowshoes. Hopefully this week they can try them out in the snow!

Learning how to fly our new indoor drones has created quite the buzz in the elementary library!

Thank you so much to Beau’s dad, Jay and Parker’s dad, Ian for teaching 1st graders about the technology they use for their jobs! We love when guest speakers stop by.

Cooper had a great time celebrating his birthday recently -- hard to believe he's five years old already!

Last week was Winter Sports Officials Appreciation Week! Let’s give a big hand to those WIAA licensed officials who have, or yet will, officiate our home Mineral Point and Dodge-Point high school athletic contests this winter. We are grateful!

-- BOYS & GIRLS BASKETBALL: TIM ACKERMAN, ERIC ANDERSON, LEE BLACK, GREGORY BLUM, ROBERT BOYLE, HENRY BRAY, DAN BREDESON, JERRY CARBER, JOSHUA CASH, SR., CHUCK CHANDLER, TAYLOR DEVALK, SHELLEY DIETZ, TYLER DORNINK, EVERETT FENWICK, JEFFREY FELLENZER, DEVIN FERYANCE, JOHN FULLERTON, SCOTT GARTHWAITE, THOMAS GRAY, NATHAN GRETZINGER, ADAM HAAS, JEFF HARTL, PATRICK HAWKER, JON HEGGE, NATE HOTTMANN, BILL INGRAM, BRIAN JAMES, WAYNE KEENAN, KEVIN KITELINGER, BRANDON KLEIN, BLAINE KRANTZ, TED LAWINGER, SEAN LEARY, JASON LOWERY, RANDY MANNING, ANDREW MARTENS, JAY MARTINSON, FRANK MCGETTIGAN, RYAN MCGRANAHAN, PATRICK MCINTYRE, JOSH MCMAHON, KENT MIEHE, RYAN MOCKLER, JAMES MULLER, JIM MYERS, NICHOLAS NEDS, ZACH NEISIUS, TREVOR NICHOLS, DEAN OSCAR, MICHAEL PFEIL, DANIEL PROCHASKA, TREVOR PROCHASKA, JOE PUETZ, ALISSA PURKO, MICHAEL RASO, CHRIS REDFEARN, ANDREW RIECHERS, JEFFREY ROEN, MARK SCHLUETER, ROB SCHULTZ, TYLER SIMMONS, MARTIN STEWART, JOEL STIEBER, MATTHEW STIEBER, MITCHELL TORDOFF, LARRY TRANEL, JEFF WACHTER, MICHAEL WALLACE, KALEB WARD, KENNETH WELTER.

-- GYMNASTICS: KIMBERLY ADAMS, TERI CREIGHTON, KAREN DOLL, KRISTIN GALLE, KARI GORNIK, BECKY GRILLEY, BRENNA LUTTER, CARRIE PEDERSEN, JOAN THOMPSON.

-- WRESTLING: RILEY CADE, DON DILAURA, MARK FARRELL, ADAM GUTHRIE, WAYNE KEENAN, ROBERT LINDEMAN, JASON LOWERY, MASON MCCAULEY, RYAN MCGUIRE, JOSH MCMAHON, MIKE NICKELATTI, MARK PARROTT, JOE PUETZ, BRADLEY RAASCH, ERIC REUKAUF, LOGAN SCHMITZ, NEAL STAKE, GARY SULLIVAN, LUCAS SULLIVAN, DAN WOJTANOWSKI.

Mark your calendar for Homecoming 2024! The football game is set for the evening of Friday, October 11 vs. Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg. Please join us for the entire week's festivities celebrating our Pointer pride!

Unfortunately, after extensive deliberation, the Booster Club has decided to cancel this year's Girls Basketball Alumni event, as the remaining schedule doesn't allow us to fully celebrate the teams with the majority of the alumni.

We look forward to honoring this year's teams during next year's season and hope for better weather. Stay tuned for that new date.

#PointerNation events coming up this week -- join us! (Please note these schedules are always subject to change)

Monday, January 22

-- Gymnastics vs. River Valley/Barneveld 6 pm. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@DodgevilleSchoolDistrict

-- MS Wrestling at Darlington 4 pm

Tuesday, January 23

-- No classes: Icy

-- POSTPONED TO MONDAY 1/29: Girls Basketball vs. Cuba City

-- POSTPONED TO THURSDAY 1/25: JV & Varsity Wrestling at Sugar River (Belleville)

-- POSTPONED TO MONDAY 1/29: MS Girls Basketball at Cuba City

Wednesday, January 24

-- Early release 2 pm (every Wednesday)

Thursday, January 25

-- Boys Basketball vs. Boscobel (JV 6 pm, Varsity to follow). Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkK8qbOedyJlHnN89x527nw

Digital tickets (cash still accepted at door): https://gofan.co/app/school/WI13618

-- JV & Varsity Wrestling at Sugar River (Belleville) 5 pm. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@schooldistrictofbelleville1630

-- MS Girls Basketball vs. Platteville 4 pm

Friday, January 26

-- Girls Basketball at Riverdale (JV 6 pm, Varsity to follow). Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@riverdaleschooldistrict1580

-- JV & Varsity Wrestling at Iowa-Grant/Highland 6:30 pm. Radio: 97.7 fm. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@iowa-grantyoutube6917

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@HSD53543

Saturday, January 27

-- SWAL Honors Choir concert at Mineral Point 4:30 pm

-- Gymnastics at Dodgeville Invite 10 am. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@DodgevilleSchoolDistrict

-- Varsity Boys Basketball vs. Reedsville at JustAGame Fieldhouse Wisconsin Dells 12:50 pm. Livestream (subscription required): https://justagame.com/clients/649b53c2da73dK3oBt

-- JV Wrestling at River Ridge 9:30 am

Please be aware of other companies claiming to livestream our games, especially if there are links different than posted above and ask for credit card and personal information -- these are scams. We will update this pinned post as available livestream information is relayed to us.

"Grounded by our history as one of the oldest publicly supported schools in Wisconsin, Mineral Point Unified School District is the heart of a small community that educates and inspires our students for a bright future in a big world."

Email: joelle.doye@mp.k12.wi.us
Website: mineralpointschools.org
Location: 705 Ross Street, Mineral Point, WI, USA
Phone: (608) 987-0740
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MineralPointSchoolDistrict