Sophomore Olivianna Ortiz showed her classmates how to swing a softball bat and hit off of a softball batting tee yesterday in Mr. Philpot’s Personal Communications class. Despite the rain, Olivianna carried out her Demonstration/How-To Presentation as scheduled.

Seven additional Survey of Business students at Mena High School passed their MOS Excel 2019 certification exams today. Including: Juan Gee Sully Massey Maddox Medlin Elaurel Spencer Zenia Schmidt Sophia Vacca Heidi Wells

Mrs Smart prepping the 5th grade ambassadors that will lead our 2nd grade tour tomorrow!! They are ready to be fabulous tour guides! ☺️🤩 👏🏻👏🏻♥️🐾♥️🐾

5th Grade Students at Holly Harshman Elementary got familiar with Mena Middle School today. They learned what will be expected of them & toured the facility in preparation for their transition to 6th Grade.

The Bearcat Soccer regular season came to an end on Wednesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Mena Bearcats-0 DeQueen-10 The boys will compete in a play-in game on Saturday to qualify for next weeks district tournament. We will post Info on who & where that game will be played when it becomes available.

Mena Ladycat Soccer lost to DeQueen in the regular season finale on Wednesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Mena Ladycats-1 DeQueen-10 The girls play in the district tournament next week. We will post a bracket as soon as it is available.

15 Survey of Business students at Mena High School passed their MOS Excel 2019 certification exams today. Including: Elaina Aleshire Jaxon Baber Hailey Emerson Jesse Garcia Ali Ogden Timothy Palmer Nichole Philpot Carmen Puckett Kensey Rossen Shantal Tecson Emmi Hines Emily Leonard Charlie Mock Hudson Vacca Fleur VanKesteren

Congratulations to Mena High School JAG student CORI HILTON who completed the 2021 National Career Readiness Certification earning platinum status. A National (Arkansas) Career Readiness Certificate is a portable credential based upon the WorkKeys® assessments that demonstrates to employers that an individual possesses the basic workplace skills required for 21st century jobs. Getting a NCRC will allow an individual to show prospective employers that he or she possesses the basic skills they are looking for. Even if a job seeker has a high school diploma, GED or post-secondary degree, the Arkansas NCRC further verifies that he or she can handle tasks such as reading instructions and directions, working with figures, and finding information - tasks common in today's workplace. National Career Readiness Certification (Arkansas Career Readiness Certification) Areas Workplace Documents – The ability to understand information in common workplace documents such as letters, memos, procedures and instructions. Applied Mathematics – The ability to use mathematical reasoning in solving common workplace situations. Graphic Literacy – The ability to understand and extract information from graphics such as diagrams, tables, forms, graphs, and charts. To be certified, you must take all 3 assessments and score level 3 or better in each assessment - (lowest score of three assessments determines the overall level of certification). Each assessment is 55 minutes long.

Sason was sensational emceeing our announcements on this wonderful Wednesday!! Lots of talent here at HHE!

The Mena Ladycats & Bearcats competed in the 4A Region 7 Sr. Conference Meet at Nashville on Tuesday.The Ladycats finished 7th & the Bearcats finished third as a team. GIRLS High Jump - 3rd Emily Wagner Discus - 4th Madison Birtcher BOYS Long Jump - 5th Caleb Peters Shot Put - 3rd Logan Yang, 7th Bobby Wallis Pole Vault - 2nd Jacob Flemons, 8th Hudson Vacca 4x800 Relay - 3 Mena - Caleb Peters, Trevin Plunkett, Tre McMellon & Logan Myers 1600 M - 2nd Logan Myers, 6th Tre McMellon 300 M Hurdles - 8th Sulley Massey 800 M - 2nd Logan Myers 3200 M - 3rd Logan Myers, 5th Tre McMellon, 7th Trevin Plunkett 4x400 Relay - 5th Mena Click the link to see complete results. https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/405028-4a-region-7-sr-conference-meet-2021/results/738005/raw

The Mena Middle School Bands Spring Concert was held Tuesday night at the MHS Performing Arts Center. There were performances by the beginning band as well as the 7th-8th grade band under the direction of Mr. Tyler Huntington.

Tony Tackett, ER Director at Mena Regional Health System, read “Grandpa’s Crooked Little Smile” to 3rd graders at HHE today. The book is designed to help students recognize the signs and symptoms of a stroke. Tony also had pencils, erasers and bookmarks with stroke awareness information.

Ladycat & Bearcat Seniors were honored at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium before the soccer games against Nashville. Mena Ladycats-3 Nashville-2 Mena Bearcats-8 Nashville-0 Seniors include: Elizabeth Cecilio Jaci Allen Annie Baker Lauren Sikes Madison Parnel Stephanie Lua Tabitha Levering Makori Gabourel Jet Hernandez Isaac Clark Andrew Davis Jacob Flemons Alessio Byrd Isaiah Kelley GO BEARCATS!!!

Congratulations to senior FFA member Cooper Anderle! Cooper is a recipient of an AR FFA License Plate Scholarship!

Mena Softball lost a close game on the road Monday. Mena Ladycats-1 Nashville-3 The Ladycats are back in action on Friday at Arkadelphia. https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=24459

The Mena Bearcats led at the end of four but gave up some late inning runs in a tough road loss on Monday. Mena Bearcats-2 Nashville-5 Mena Baseball returns to action on Friday at Arkadelphia!! https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=24460

Mena Softball played their last home game of the year Friday at Union Bank Park. Two seniors were honored before the game, MORGAN PUCKETT & EMILY WAGNER.... The game was called after four innings due to rain. Mena Ladycats-10 DeQueen-8 Emmi Hines pitched all four innings for Mena & Libby Sharp had three hits to lead the Ladycats. Mena will play at Nashville on Monday. Go Ladycats!!!!

Mrs. Johnson’s Room 309 at HHE playing with sidewalk chalk and bubbles...Best day ever! Thank you Lisa Roberts for sharing your bubble machine with us.

Gameday Friday April 23rd ! Softball-4:30pm Soccer-CANCELLED - Rescheduled to Wednesday 4/28/21.

Mrs. Kristy Cogburn is pleased to announce that the Spring Choir Concerts will be on Thursday, May 20 in the Performing Arts Center. Middle School Choir will begin at 6:00pm and High School Choirs will begin at 7:00pm.