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In a school year where learning was anything but normal, Menlo Park Academy’s students had no choice but to take on the responsibility of doing some extracurricular projects under their own discipline. The 2021 Ohio Invention Convention was one of those projects. The Invention Convention is a worldwide program that the children at Menlo can...
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For many, a love of learning is born later in life as it grows when you see all the world has to offer. For Emily Carroccio, however, her love of learning began when she was just a child. As she sits now in a Loyola University Chicago classroom, she reflects back on how her passion...
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When Dylan Zsigray walked into Menlo Park Academy as an incoming sixth-grader he felt something that he had yet to experience in a school setting; he felt seen. Dylan, now a student at Cleveland State University, where he will be graduating early, looks back on his time at Menlo Park Academy, not only with happy...
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frank o'grady speaking
Educator Frank O’Grady of Menlo Park Academy in Cleveland successfully coached seven young historians to compete at the national level in the National History Day contest, to take place virtually June 13-19. O’Grady, a resident of Olmsted Township, teaches middle school history at Menlo Park Academy, a public charter school for gifted children. National History...
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menlo students participating in the pinewood derby
Cub Scouts in Pack 110, sponsored by Menlo Park Academy, competed in their Pinewood Derby on April 24, with families participating from the comfort of their homes because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Races were streamed live from the MPA gymnasium.  The Pinewood Derby is the wood car racing event for the Scouts of America,...
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menlo student participating in history day
Seven gifted students from Menlo Park Academy have qualified for the National History Day competition as the school racked up 10 total awards.
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As a 10 year-old Jewish child growing up in Germany 80 years ago, Roni Berenson didn’t just see the Holocaust unfold. She lived it. Menlo Park Academy middle school students (Grades 7-8) heard Berenson’s firsthand accounts during their Modern World History Class. Roni Berenson, mother of MPA Social Worker David Berenson, presented her experience as...
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menlo student at national history day
Sixteen gifted students from Menlo Park Academy won 13 total awards at the National History Day Region 3 competition.
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seamus o'hara and jennifer ingraham speak on WKYC
With schools bringing more students back into their buildings, and vaccine rollout underway for educators in Ohio, two Menlo Park Academy administrators were interviewed about the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created, and how the school has worked through those challenges.
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Menlo Park Academy’s creative writers shined once again at the Power of the Pen, with the seventh-grade team claiming first place overall, and the school’s seventh and eighth graders combined to win second place in the Sweepstakes Award. Overall, three of the four competing seventh-graders, and one of the three competing eighth-graders, advanced to the...
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