{"id":27793,"date":"2025-01-24T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=27793"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:19:48","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-mpa-from-hadley-r-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/01\/24\/five-things-to-know-about-mpa-from-hadley-r-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things To Know About MPA From Maren G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27787 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marenstory.jpg\" alt=\"Maren with her i-term group in Quebec\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>As an eighth grader, Maren speaks to leadership opportunities in Middle School, competing on the Nordic ski team, the value of a closely-knit community, and more!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">1. We have i-Term in Middle School.<\/h2>\n<p>I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to Quebec, Canada last year for i-Term. I learned so much about French-Canadian culture and ate a lot of local cuisine.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">2. Athletic team experiences are memorable.<\/h2>\n<p>I ski every winter on MPA&#8217;s Nordic team. It is a great experience and has provided the opportunity to meet new friends, enjoy the Minnesota winter, and improve my skiing!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">3. There are so many fine arts opportunities.<\/h2>\n<p>The options MPA provides to excel in fine arts has made me a more well-rounded person, and I enjoy being able to play both violin and sing in choir.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">4. Students are encouraged to lead.<\/h2>\n<p>MPA encourages students to join clubs or create their own. My friends and I run Design Club in the middle school. Some of our past projects include designing the middle school planner, locker posters, and appreciation gifts for our teachers.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">5. We have a small, close community<\/h2>\n<p>I am grateful for the opportunity to attend MPA with my three sisters. I have one older sister who is a sophomore, and two younger sisters who are in sixth grade and third grade. I am lucky to see them at school thanks to the cohesive community bond we have between divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an eighth grader, Maren speaks to leadership opportunities in Middle School, competing on the Nordic ski team, the value of a closely-knit community, and more! 1. We have i-Term in Middle School. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to Quebec, Canada last year for i-Term. I learned so much about French-Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,15,28,24,10,29,12,27,10025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-athletics","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-fine-arts","category-homepage","category-middle-school","category-my-mpa-experience","category-student-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27916,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793\/revisions\/27916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}