McHenry Community High School

The McHenry County Manufacturing Pathways Consortium is offering paid summer internships for students considering careers in manufacturing or related fields. Contact Mr. Menke with questions. Link to application: https://bit.ly/ManufacturingInternships (IG: Link in bio.)

Congrats to Robotman for winning Battle of the Bands Friday night! All of our performers did an excellent job and our crowd brought a ton of energy! #WarriorReady156

#WritersWeek2023 had plenty of activities during AIM and lunches. Earlier this week students created "blackout poetry" where you take a random page of a book and cross out words with a sharpie to create a poem with the remainder of the words.

Author and mother of MCHS students, Sandra Tentler, spoke to students at Freshman Campus on Friday about her books and writing process. She also led a creative writing exercise with them. Thank you for sharing your expertise! #WritersWeek2023 #WarriorReady156

"Not everyone has to like you. It's fine," bestselling author Erika L. Sánchez told MCHS students Tuesday when she visited school as part of Writers Week. Read more: https://www.dist156.org/article/996837 (Link in bio.) 📷 by Nikki Sisson

As a reminder, students who speak another language in addition to English will take ACCESS testing to measure language abilities starting Monday at Freshman Campus. #WarriorReady156

Sophomores had their annual Poetry Slam on Thursday. Congrats to our winners and props to everyone who bravely read their poems in the auditorium! #WritersWeek2023 #WarriorReady156

Alum Mackenzie O'Brien and Battle of the Band 2022 winners, Standalone, shared their songwriting techniques and performed a few songs during AIM. Come see Standalone and other great bands Friday night at Battle of the Bands! Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/mchsbattle

The MCHS Foundation Committee is accepting nominations until March 1 for the Distinguished Graduate program to recognize MCHS alumni who have gone above and beyond, such as 2022 Distinguished Graduate Betty Thompson. Read more here: https://www.dist156.org/article/991944

This year's prom theme is "A Tale as Old as Time." Juniors and seniors, get #WarriorReady156 for an amazing prom! Check back to this link as more prom information becomes available : https://www.dist156.org/page/prom-2023 Instagram- link in bio.

Please see the link for our current job postings, including recently added assistant boys lacrosse coach, bilingual instructor, speech and language pathologist, and special education instructor positions. bit.ly/2W2wnSh (IG: Link in bio) #WarriorReady156

Thank you to Vanessa and Cooper from Warrior Student Media for interviewing author Erika Sánchez on Tuesday. They both did a great job! #WarriorReady156 #WritersWeek2023

Students in the pilot B.L.A.C.K club hung posters to celebrate different people in honor of Black History Month. Anyone is welcome to join the B.L.A.C.K club and can contact bacigaluponicole@dist156.org if they are interested! #BlackHistoryMonth2023

This week's Warrior Weekly student #broadcast covers: 🎳Girls bowling ☀️Groundhog Day ✏Writers Week 🍎MCHS's first Wellness Fair Check it out here: 🎥 https://youtu.be/9-L_hgsJWHA #WarriorReady156

Erika Sánchez spoke to students about her book "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" on Tuesday of MCHS Writers Week. She told students her book was not only based on her personal experiences, but others' personal experiences as well.

Congratulations to the MCHS Chess Club for qualifying for the @IHSA_IL state tournament for the second year in a row. 🎉 To see them in action, check out the link below for a Warrior Weekly broadcast package from November. 🎥 https://youtu.be/HTP3ioX1e-g #WarriorReady156

Writers Week has begun! Students played the word game "Bananagrams" and wrote down their imperfections in anticipation of Erika Sanchez, author of “I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," visiting tomorrow. Brave students also read their own work during a Celebration of Words!

Today is the start of National School Counseling Week. 🎉 Thank you to JR Bocian, Stephanie Zarinana, Gary Myers, Carla Flores, Sarah Sadler, Nicole Bacigalupo, Kate Schak, David Figueroa, and Curtis Menke for helping our students dream big. ☀️ #WarriorReady156 #NSCW23

Two members of the MCHS girls bowling team advanced to sectionals at Saturday's regional event in Marengo. Emily Carpenter finished fifth while Brianna May took seventh place. They'll be competing this Saturday at Liberty Lanes in Carpentersville. Go, Warriors!

The wrestling team took third in the IHSA regionals at Grant HS. Great season! Eight wrestlers qualified for sectionals at Barrington HS. Good luck to Ryan Hanson, Jimmy Norris, Lucas Van Diepen, Pedro Jimenez, Ruben Melgarejo, Aiden Fischler, Chris Moore, and Jesse Saavedra.