Dear Meridian Junior High School Families,

We are excited to announce our MJHS Fall Sports Fundraiser!

Athletics and activities at MJHS are funded in large part through spiritwear and concession stand sales. In an effort to generate additional revenue to help us update and replace volleyballs, basketballs, nets, and other athletic equipment, we will be hosting two SNAP fundraisers this school year.

Fall Sports Fundraiser

For our fall fundraiser, we are asking all students participating in the following activities to take part:

Volleyball
Cross Country
Boys Basketball
Cheerleading

Everyone is welcome to participate! Students do not have to be involved in one of these activities to take part in the fundraiser.

The great thing about the SNAP fundraiser is that there is nothing to sell and no products to deliver! This is a donation-based fundraiser. Your student simply creates an account and can provide email addresses and/or phone numbers for family members, friends, and others who may be willing to support MJHS athletics and activities.

We will hold an additional SNAP fundraiser in the spring for Girls Basketball, Academic Team, Wrestling, and Track.

Every donation, no matter the amount, will help us provide our students with quality equipment and opportunities to participate in athletics and activities. We greatly appreciate your support of our students and MJHS!

Please see the flyer below for instructions on how to sign up and for additional details:

MJHS Fall Sports Fundraiser Flyer

Thank you for supporting Meridian Junior High School Athletics and Activities!

Go Cardinals!

Tara Jepsen
Assistant Principal / Athletic Director
Meridian Junior High School

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Our 8th grade scientists took their learning outdoors today to investigate the concepts of motion and forces. Students had a blast using remote-control cars to collect real-world distance and time data, which they then used to calculate speed. It was a beautiful day for some hands-on, active learning!
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🏈 Friday is here!

Cardinal Football opens the season at home!

📅 Friday, August 21
🆚 Winnebago HS
🚪 Gates Open: 6:00 p.m.
🏈 Kickoff: 7:00 p.m.
📍 Stillman Valley High School

📺 Watch LIVE on Hudl Fan:
https://fan.hudl.com/.../boys-varsity-football/watch...

GAME DAY REMINDERS
🔹 Students in 8th grade and younger must be accompanied by an adult — games are not a drop-off event.
🔹 No outside play balls are permitted inside the stadium.

Thank you for helping us keep Cardinal events safe and enjoyable for all spectators!

#CardinalPRIDE
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☀️📚 Enjoy a restful, joyful summer with reading opportunities to keep students curious and learning over the break. Happy Summer Vacation! ✨📖
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Million Word Wall magic at Meridian Jr. High! ✨📚

Students have soared from 250,000 words to an incredible 5,000,000+ words on the Million Word Wall. What an amazing display of dedication, curiosity, and love of reading. A huge well done to every reader and supporter — teachers, families, and staff! We can’t wait to see what you achieve next year! 📚🏆✨

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Good luck MJHS Athletes! Our MJHS track state qulaifiers are competing at IESA state today and tomorrow! Below is a live link for today and an order of events. GO CARDS!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04WMhM2GZ48

https://www.iesa.org/activities/tr/IESA-TR_Schedule.pdf
3 months ago, MJHS
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🎳 Striking Success! Celebrating Our Lighthouse Team at Uptown Lanes 🎳

What a year it has been! Today, we took some well-deserved time out to celebrate the incredible hard work, dedication, and leadership of our Lighthouse team at MJHS. And what better place to let the good times roll than Uptown Lanes? 🍕🎳

Today was all about trading in our everyday responsibilities for bowling shoes, sharing laughs, eating pizza, and enjoying each other’s company. Whether it was a perfect strike or a gutter ball, the energy was electric! ⚡

To our amazing Lighthouse leaders, thank you! Here’s to celebrating this year's victories and looking forward to an even brighter year ahead!
4 months ago, ALISON SALO
Lighthouse Team at Uptown Lanes

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4 months ago, Nick Belmonte
Huge congratulations to Mrs. Salo for winning a Casey’s Classroom Makeover Grant!
Mrs. Salo took the initiative to seek out this opportunity, and her hard work paid off in a big way. This makeover will create an incredible learning environment for her current students and many more to come! We are so proud of your dedication, Mrs. Salo!
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We are thrilled to congratulate Mr. Ben Groselak on his IPA Teacher Leader Award! As a dedicated eighth-grade mathematics teacher and multi-sport coach, Mr. Groselak truly exemplifies the highest standards of our profession. He is widely recognized for his unique ability to balance academic rigor with genuine empathy, creating a classroom culture built on mutual respect and student empowerment. Whether he is meticulously analyzing data to support student mastery in math or instilling discipline and sportsmanship on the basketball court and golf course, his commitment to the Meridian Schools District 223 community is unmatched. We are incredibly proud of Mr. Groselak for his leadership, his constant drive for instructional innovation, and the lasting impact he makes on our students' lives.
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This week, we celebrated a fantastic collaboration that started with an idea and ended with art! Our Student Council, led by Micki Hoefle, recently held a "Shark Tank" style presentation to find creative ways to improve MJHS.

The winning concept? A school mural! Mrs. Rippentrop and our talented 8th-grade Art students took that vision and brought it to life. We can’t wait to have this masterpiece on display for everyone to enjoy.

Our 8th grade Student Council members and 8th Grade Art students presented the project to the Board of Education on Wednesday evening.
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We want to take a moment to say thank you and congratulations to Mrs. Schneiker, who has been named a ReadTheory Literacy Leader. This is a special recognition among millions of educators worldwide. Thanks to Mrs. Schneiker's efforts, our students are improving as readers and developing as learners. Congratulations to Mrs. Schneiker and her students for this recognition!
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On Friday, May 1, MJHS kicked off Teacher Appreciation Week with a fun, lighthearted assembly where students thanked their teachers and poked a little fun at their tendencies. Thank you to all our MJHS teachers and staff for making it a great place to learn and grow!
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4 months ago, Nick Belmonte

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