MMI News

MMI Preparatory School recently held their Annual Award Ceremonies where they honored upper school and middle school student athletes and their achievements during the 2022-2023 school year.

MMI recognized students during the Upper School Awards Convocation.

MMI Preparatory School held an awards ceremony to honor middle school students for their academic achievements and inducted members into the National Junior Honor Society and the National Classical League for Latin.

Twenty-three MMI Preparatory School students participated in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) state competition in May on the Penn State Main Campus. Ten earned first awards (one earned two), twelve won second awards, one earned a third award, one earned the 2023 Oerlein Senior High Excellence Award and one earned an Excellence Award. Three students received perseverance awards.

MMI Preparatory School won third place in the Luzerne County Envirothon competition. The team consisted of Nathaniel Neidlinger, Kathryn Sissick, Nathan Sissick, Blake Warren, and Jessica Zheng.

Nine students from MMI Preparatory School placed in the top ten at the State Leadership Conference held at Hershey, Pennsylvania in April.

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.