Keeping the momentum of Earth Day going, MHS will celebrate its first-ever "Green Week."  Spearheaded by senior Lexi Raczka, the week will feature the following events:

Monday

Students and Faculty will kick off Green Week by wearing green and support Mansfield and the initiative to be more environmentally friendly. 

Tuesday

            Waste free lunch day; students and faculty will try to bring/buy lunches that require nothing to be thrown away in the cafeteria.  Examples are sandwiches or salads in a Tupperware container, soup, pasta or leftovers in a thermos...

Wednesday

            Walk to school day; students and faculty will try to walk to school to reduce their impact on the environment through transportation.  The high school will work with the Police Department to make sure that safety is a priority.  

Thursday

            Sneaker Collection Day; students and faculty can bring in old, worn out sneakers of any brand through Nike's reuse a shoe program that will recycle the sneakers into athletic surfaces and equipment.  There will be a bin located in the main lobby to allow people to easily drop off their old sneakers.   

Friday

            Carpool Day; there will be limited parking in the parking lots to urge students and faculty to carpool to school.  The Green Schools/Green Earth Hornets Student Summit will also take place; students at school will participate the summit in the to learn more about environmental issues.

Saturday

            The Great American Clean-up of Mansfield; interested students or faculty members can join the Green Earth Hornet's clean-up team or they can create a team of their own.  

Since April 13 a group of thirteen AP French and French IV students have been in France as part of Mansfield High School's annual exchange program with its sister school, Le Collège et Lycée Saint-Louis.  The school is located in Châteaulin, a small village in the Brittany region of France.  As the emphasis of the program is learning through total immersion, each of the students has been living with a student and family from the lycée.  The same French students will come to Mansfield in October and live with the MHS students and their families.  As Principal Joe Maruszczak traveled with the group for a portion of the trip, more details on the experience may be found in his blog, Principally Speaking.

The National Financial Capability Challenge is an awards program designed to increase the financial knowledge and capability of high school students.   This year, over 84,000 students participated in the event nationwide.  Over 120 students in Jacqueline Prester's business classes took the challenge in the months of March and April.  Max Kinney and Kurt Dominesey (pictured above) earned the highest scores at Mansfield High School.  Max scored a perfect 100%, while Kurt scored at 98%.  Both students received special certificates for this honor and will be entered into a drawing for one of twenty $1,000 scholarships given by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

The following 35 students scored in the top 20% of all students in the country and also received certificates for their achievement:

David Abrahamson, Kelsey Alexander, Matt Baldasare, Adam Bourque, Alex Bouthillier, Michael Buckley, Kurt Dominesey, Amanda Eardley, Michelle Ganter-Fichera, Matthew Harris, David Helebert, Daniel Ivas, James Jewkes, Max Kinney, Andrew Kuras, Jason Larm, Craig Margolin, Joshua Marohn, Aubrey Matthews, Paige McCafferty, Sean McGoldrick, Justin McIntosh, Kyle Michel, Kevin J. Murphy, Matthew Needle, Kylie Nelson, Christopher Nugent, Kyle Pepi, Lauren Plante, Edward Roach, Gregory Romanko, Shane Roy, Steve Sarkis, Christopher Sorge, Amanda Williamson

Into the Woods is a thrilling musical written by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim that focuses on the journeys of a group of well-known, timeless fairy tale characters. The plot is centered on a baker (Devin Davies) and his wife (Lindsey White) who desperately wish to have a child, but because of a spell cast on them from the ugly witch (Sarah Shear) who lives next door, they can only reverse the spell by locating four items from the dark woods. Also traveling into the woods, are Little Red Riding Hood (Emily Ruddy), Jack (Alex Fullerton) - from the beanstalk story, and Cinderella (Megan Harney) and her step family. Their individual stories merge to form one tale, full of love, hate, evil witches, vengeful giants, hungry wolves, and the struggle to find happiness. This show is sure to make the audience laugh, cry, scream, and learn a moving lesson about responsibility through the fairy tale characters we thought we knew.  Over ninety students are involved in this production either on stage, backstage, or in the orchestra.  The Mansfield High School Performing Arts Department will be presenting INTO THE WOODS on Friday, May 6th and Saturday, May 7th at 7:30pm, and Sunday May 8 at 2pm in the MHS Barbara Trombley Auditorium.  Tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens, and $13 for adults. Tickets will be available at the door for purchase.