MMI News

Unico National, America’s largest Italian-American Service Organization, is awarding its 2023 Philip Mazzei Americanism Award to MMI Preparatory School Board Chairman Richard A. DiLiberto, Jr., at its annual convention in Sanibel Harbour, Florida, in July. The award is named for Philip Mazzei, an Italian patriot, physician and vintner, who became a close friend and neighbor to Thomas Jefferson, in colonial Virginia in 1774. Mazzei is credited with first proposing the great phrase “All men are created equal” anchored in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, by Jefferson.

MMI Preparatory School’s Jessica Zheng was one of 628 students to advance to the final round of the 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars competition, an award that recognizes our country’s most distinguished graduating seniors.

Forty-one MMI Preparatory School students participated in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) regional competition in March. Twenty-four earned first awards (one won twice), 15 won second awards (one won twice), and two earned third awards.  The first award winners will represent MMI at the state competition at the University Park Campus of Penn State in May.

MMI Preparatory School inducted students in to multiple Honor Societies on March 23, 2023.

MMI Preparatory School will host its annual Open House sponsored by State Street this Sunday, March 26, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend the event where students will showcase their projects.

59 MMI students competed in the FBLA Region 16 competition, with 38 of those students earning top awards and 34 earning the right to compete at the PA State FBLA Leadership Conference in Hershey from April 16 through the 19th.

Local high school seniors Khristian Banks and Jessica Zheng have been named Semifinalists for the 2023 class of the Coca-Cola Scholars Program, moving to the next round of the selection process to become a Coca-Cola Scholar and receive a $20,000 college scholarship.

Twelve MMI Preparatory School students participated in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) state competition in May on the Penn State Main Campus. Six earned first awards, six won second awards, and one earned an Outstanding Junior Award.

MMI Preparatory School honored the Class of 2022 during its 130th commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 26. Seniors received their diplomas from MMI Head of School Justin Kleinheider and Chair of the 2021-2022 Board of Directors Llewellyn F. Dryfoos, III ‘82.