Opening night is tomorrow!!!!!!
Manito-Forest City Rotary graciously donated money to purchase food for the Raider Closet! This will allow students in need to grab food items for meals on the weekend. Mrs. Schneider's work skills class will purchase, stock, organize and manage the food portion of the Raider Closet! Thank you, Rotary, for your continued support of the Raider Closet!
Reminder - Tomorrow is a 1/2 day for students and NO Preschool classes!
Buildings will dismiss as follows: PS - 11:40 MS - 11:20 HS - 11:30
Tonight is Senior Night for Ella, Khloee, Jennavieve, and Liliana. The Lady Raiders play Lewistown with a C game starting at 5:00. Jv match starts at 6:00, V to follow. Good Luck Ladies!
The Lady Raiders travel to Elmwood tonight. JV match starts at 6:00, V to follow. Good Luck Ladies!
The Raiders compete today in the Peoria Heights Invite at Detweiller Park. First race starts at 1:00. Good Luck Raiders!
In Mr. Servis’ Physical Science Class, the students are working on Drop Tests as an introduction to Newton’s Laws of Motion. The students are comparing the speed of a moving object as it falls to the distance the object needs to be released prior to hitting the target. The students are then going to compare these drop tests to how World War II bombers would drop projectiles during war.
Don't have time to shop? We have elves that will do the shopping for you. All you have to do is drop off your cash or check (made payable to Midwest Central with "Snow Buddies" in the memo line) donation to any of the school offices.
You can drop off monetary donations now!! Dates for “adopting” a Raider family to shop for, dropping off presents for your "adopted" Raider family, and gently used present donation drop off will be released soon… so stay tuned!
Join us on Tuesday, October 31, for the Village of Manito’s Trunk-or-Treat co-sponsored by the Midwest Central High School Interact Club and National Honor Society!
Community members and businesses are invited to join in the fun! Choose a costume of your choice, decorate the trunk of your vehicle, line up along Harrison Street from 4:30-4:45 PM and hand out store-bought, wrapped candy to hundreds of goblins, ghouls, superheroes, princesses, and more from 5:00 – 7:00 PM!
We hope to see you there!
Ms. Rousseau's US History 2 classes built their very own trenches for their WWI unit review game! :) In between review questions, students got to have a paper snowball fight from their trenches to earn extra points. (3rd and 8th hour pictured. 1st hour's trenches were also beautiful, just forgot to get pictures!)
Recently the Snow Buddy program received a generous $1,000 donation from Randall Hendrickson, Manito Masonic Lodge #476. We can’t thank the Masonic Lodge enough for this wonderful act of kindness. It will help purchase gifts for Midwest Central students at Christmas.
One of our school counselor’s goals is to provide more job shadowing opportunities!
We have had several students job shadow in careers they are interested in. One student was able to shadow Dr. Dunker (a former MC grad) at Central IL Chiropractic and several other students are set up to job shadow at Hopedale Medical Complex. Another student was able to job shadow Des Bortell (a former MC grad) at her barber shop in Pekin, Il.
We are so proud of our current Raiders and past graduates for continuing to invest our community!
THANK YOU to Dr. Dunker, Hopedale Medical Complex, and Des Bortell for providing these opportunities!!
The Lady Raiders travel to Peoria Christian tonight. The JV match starts at 5:00, V to follow. It is Peoria Christians Volley for the Cure Night. Good Luck Ladies!
Students interested in the construction pathway, this is for you!!!!!! Please see Mrs. Harborn to sign up for this field trip.
SkillsUSA Illinois, through an innovate partnership with the Otto Baum Company, Inc., is excited to hold their second annual Construction Pathways: Career Experience. Opened to schools across the state, with special focus on Central Illinois, this Career Experience will bring together construction employers across the region who are all focused on and interested in hiring young, talented individuals. The goal of this annual hiring event is to connect students who are ready to enter the workforce with industry who are ready to hire. SkillsUSA Illinois, through an innovate partnership with the Otto Baum Company, Inc., is excited to hold their second annual Construction Pathways: Career Experience. Opened to schools across the state, with special focus on Central Illinois, this Career Experience will bring together construction employers across the region who are all focused on and interested in hiring young, talented individuals. The goal of this annual hiring event is to connect students who are ready to enter the workforce with industry who are ready to hire.
The high school musical “Addams Family” will be presented next week, October 19-21 at 7:30 PM at the Forman Center. There are a few dinner theater tickets for Saturday’s performance available for purchase at the high school office. Show tickets are purchased at the door on show night, but dinner theater tickets must be purchased this week.
Happy Columbus Day!
The Lady Raiders took 4th place today at the Beardstown Tournament. Amelia Meeker and Lilianna Leon were selected to the All Tournament Team. Congratulations ladies!
The Lady Raiders travel to Beardstown today for their tournament. First match starts at 9:00. Good Luck Ladies!
Reminder - Monday, 10/9/23 we have no school in observance of Columbus Day! Enjoy a 3 day weekend, Raiders!!
Raider Family!!! Mrs. Harbourn was able to take students to the Discover Manufacturing event at ICC on October 4th.
Prior to exploring the different certification programs at ICC, we did an extensive tour at BTD Manufacturing in Washington, IL. Our Raiders saw employees in the various departments: quality, warehouse, light and heavy welding, small and large machining, tooling, engineering, fiber laser, and press brake.
Once we arrived to ICC, we visited different ICC programs infused in manufacturing: hydraulics, CNC/Machine, Industrial Electronics/ Maintenance, Welding, Graphic Communications, and HVAC!
We are grateful for BTD and ICC for providing our Raiders the opportunity to experience the manufacturing world!
