Department of Learning & Innovation

❤️ Happy Valentine's Day! Warrior Chef students have been selling their homemade cake pops during lunch hours to celebrate. #WarriorReady156

Today is not only Valentine's Day, but it's also Library Lovers' Day! 📚 Thank you to our librarians for always working hard and making our libraries an inviting place for our students! #ThankALibrarian

Freshmen German students had a German "Karneval" Tuesday morning. Ms. Folden gave them instructions for games entirely in German. Students had to try to dance with a ballon between them without dropping it. They also played a game similar to Marco Polo. #WarriorReady156

🎥 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRim22-rTmo The Warrior Weekly covers: 🏀 girls basketball senior night 📚 author Matt de la Peña, 📝the poetry slam ❤️ Valentine's Day spirit at MCHS. #WarriorReady156

Congratulations to our freshmen students of the month for January! Not pictured: Nicholas Dooley, Alyza Roman, Caleb Kaminski and Angel Ortiz. #WarriorReady156 #StartWithSuccess156

Medical Residency class of 2022 graduate Jackson Zriny shared his experiences as a Firefighter/EMT with the current Medical Residency students on Friday. We are so proud of him! #WarriorReady156

Congratulations to alum Josh Holm for earning a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30! Well done! https://www.forbes.com/profile/josh-holm/?sh=1969eaab2c7b (Instagram: link in bio)

Sunday was International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We are proud of all our women and young women in science here at MCHS. These photos are just a small percentage of the amazing women we are celebrating! #WomenInScience Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/mchswomeninscience

Sunday was a beautiful day for some habitat restoration with these hardworking environmental club students. They cleared invasive brush, made some new insect friends, and spread some native seeds on the fen. 🐌🪵🌿 Well done, Warriors! #WarriorReady156

We closed off Writers Week with the annual sophomore poetry slam! Great job to all our sophomores! Congrats to our winners! #WarriorReady156

In honor of Writers Week, teachers awarded certificates to numerous students who demonstrated exceptional talent in writing. Write on, Warriors! #WarriorReady156

Wish our chess team good luck as they head off to state! #WarriorReady156

Warrior Chef students prepared and served lunch to the Leadership Greater McHenry County event on Thursday! This was one of the biggest events they have catered. Great job, Warriors! #WarriorReady156

Matt de la Peña, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for his book “Last Stop on Market Street,” visited MCHS and spoke to English students for our Writers Week. He told students to read at least 50 pages of a book before forming an opinion on it.

Warrior Chef students are busy preparing for a Leadership Greater McHenry County lunch Thursday that they are making and presenting. The event will be one of the biggest for Warrior Chef, a capstone course to prepare students for culinary careers. #WarriorReady156

Last Friday Logan Campbell from Illinois Wesleyan University visited the Symphonic Band class to work with them in preparation for their February 28 concert and talk to them about participating in music in college as a music major or non-major. #WarriorReady156

🎥 Watch the Warrior Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJb624tBCc They cover chess team's success, Winter Formal, winter weather, Mrs. Kirk and the scene study course. #WarriorReady156

There's still time to take an SAT prep course taught by MCHS teachers. Sign up below. (Instagram: link in bio) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWHNTO6oyJaGZsk4HW0XBJhOwAaHWHeaw6LKOtpHmNlySEWA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR36DbM46FAFeJU3z0E6EMp6nQV77YFhZ1ytp6zP3xkbe-V_bNx3rLRvrtY

Happy School Counselors week to our nine amazing counselors! Warriors, if you see a counselor this week, be sure to thank them for all their hard work! #schoolcounselorappreciationweek #thankacounselor

MCHS alum Andrew Bentz, a service and installation technician for Huemann Water Conditioning, visited Upper Campus Thursday to install a new reverse osmosis water system in the greenhouse. The system removes any impurities in the water, which will be especially helpful to fish in the science department's aquaponics growing program.