Michigan City High School
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Michigan City High School is located in Michigan City, Indiana. At the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, there were 1935 students During normal hours of operation.
. MCHS is a class 5A school for boys football and a class 4A school for all other sports, and is a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association
. The athletic director is Robert "Bear" Falls and assistant athletic directors are Rich Lenard and Bob Giesler. Students participate in Men and Womens Soccer, Men and Womens Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Diving, Basketball, Track, Field, and Cross Country; as well as Softball, Baseball, Wrestling, Cheerleading, Football, and Gymnastics. MCHS Gymnastics is ranked 15th in the state and Boys swimming is ranked 18th.
, Student Council, Morning Broadcasting, Tech Club, Show Choir, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Drama Society, Japanese club, French Club, Spanish Club, German Club, Wolvettes Dancing, Peer Tutoring, Ping Pong Club, Wednesdays with Yarn, Science Olympiad
, Quiz Bowl, Junior Engineering Technical Society
(JETS) TEAMS
, and Art Club.
Note: The Miss Indiana Pageant was in the high school until at least 1989. It is unknown if it ran longer at this time
When the theater was built the architect died part way through the construction. The builders then incorrectly installed the ceiling panels to allow access for the lighting in the ceiling, making the theater anti-acoustic. You could hear perfect on stage what the back row was saying about your performance, but needed an extensive sound system to hear the performance.
In 2009, the Michigan City High School Quiz Bowl team placed 13th at the state competition in Lafayette, IN, surpassing all regular-season opponents from the DAC, including state powerhouse Andrean High School.
In 2010, the MCHS bowling team won the Indiana state championship.
In March 2010, the MCHS Japanese department's Level 3 and 4 teams, won two state titles from the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana (JOI). This event, which tests students' knowledge of Japanese culture, history and society, was held at Valparaiso High School, attracted some 200 students from 15 high schools.
In 2010, the Michigan City High School Envirothon teams both advanced to the State competition. Envirothon is an academic competition that tests student's knowledge of soil, aquatics, forestry, and wildlife. It also includes an additional category every year, which was groundwater in 2010.
On February 19, 2011, at the Science Olympiad Regional Competition at Indiana University Northwest
, the MCHS team won first place in an unprecedented fourteen gold medals (in the Astronomy, Chemistry Lab, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Fossils, Microbe Mission, Mouse Trap Vehicle, Ornithology, Protein Modelling, Remote Sensing, Game On, Come Fly With Me, and Robot Ramble categories), won 24 out of 26 medals in all, and swept the second-place team, rival Chesterton High School by 33 points. This marked the first time MCHS has ever progressed beyond the preliminary regional competition in all of its ten years of SO participation. This was in part to a restructuring of the team, which included three self-appointed and team-accepted team captains, who reorganized the team into smaller sub-teams, each with its own area of expertise, including the school's first-ever robotics team, who designed, built, and operated a remotely controlled robotic vehicle and played a big part in winning first place. In the State-level competition, the team placed eighteen out of 24 indiana high schools that managed to make it to State.
History
Michigan City High School was formed by the merger of Rogers High School and Elston High School in 1995. Michigan City High School is located on the former campus of Rogers High School.Students
Michigan City High School is a member of the Duneland Athletic ConferenceDuneland Athletic Conference
The Duneland Athletic Conference is a high school athletic conference in Indiana serving eight members of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Member schools are located in the counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore...
. MCHS is a class 5A school for boys football and a class 4A school for all other sports, and is a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association
Indiana High School Athletic Association
The Indiana High School Athletic Association is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the State of Indiana. It monitors a system that divides athletically-competing high schools in Indiana based on the school's enrollment. The divisions, known as...
. The athletic director is Robert "Bear" Falls and assistant athletic directors are Rich Lenard and Bob Giesler. Students participate in Men and Womens Soccer, Men and Womens Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Diving, Basketball, Track, Field, and Cross Country; as well as Softball, Baseball, Wrestling, Cheerleading, Football, and Gymnastics. MCHS Gymnastics is ranked 15th in the state and Boys swimming is ranked 18th.
The Wolves' Den
Michigan City High School houses Indiana's eighth largest public high school gymnasium, "The Wolves Den." The Wolves Den is also the tenth largest high school gymnasium in the United States, with a seating capacity of 7100.Ames Field
Michigan City's premier athletic facility, the new Ames Field was opened in 1995. Home to the Michigan City Wolves high school football, Ames Field also hosts the Drum and Bugle Corps Showcase every summer. The original Ames Field was home to the Michigan City White Caps from 1950-1959. The original multipurpose sports facility was demolished in 1995 to make room for expanded stadium. Ames field is named after Mr. George Ames, an early businessman and mayor of Michigan City in the late 1800s. In the spring of 2009, the stadium's playing surface was replaced with artificial field turf at the price $718,396 in lieu of resodding the heavily damaged turf.Extracurricular activities
Available at Michigan City High School are: National Honor SocietyNational Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, Student Council, Morning Broadcasting, Tech Club, Show Choir, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Drama Society, Japanese club, French Club, Spanish Club, German Club, Wolvettes Dancing, Peer Tutoring, Ping Pong Club, Wednesdays with Yarn, Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
, Quiz Bowl, Junior Engineering Technical Society
Junior Engineering Technical Society
Junior Engineering Technical Society is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting engineering and technology careers to America's young people. JETS engages students in various engineering education programs that are designed to encourage secondary school students to pursue...
(JETS) TEAMS
TEAMS (academic competition)
Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science is an annual competition originally organized by the Junior Engineering Technical Society...
, and Art Club.
Jesse P. Rogers Auditorium
From 1960 until 1987, the Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant was held in the auditorium of Michigan City High School. In 1970, Elston High School alumni Mary McBride was crowned Miss Indiana in the Jess P. Rogers Auditorium at Rogers High School. Most recently, the Michigan City High School Drama Society held a showing of Disney's High School Musical on the stage, drawing over 1,500 audience members to the two weekend show.Note: The Miss Indiana Pageant was in the high school until at least 1989. It is unknown if it ran longer at this time
When the theater was built the architect died part way through the construction. The builders then incorrectly installed the ceiling panels to allow access for the lighting in the ceiling, making the theater anti-acoustic. You could hear perfect on stage what the back row was saying about your performance, but needed an extensive sound system to hear the performance.
Notable Accomplishments
In 1995, the MCHS Volleyball team won the Indiana state championship.In 2009, the Michigan City High School Quiz Bowl team placed 13th at the state competition in Lafayette, IN, surpassing all regular-season opponents from the DAC, including state powerhouse Andrean High School.
In 2010, the MCHS bowling team won the Indiana state championship.
In March 2010, the MCHS Japanese department's Level 3 and 4 teams, won two state titles from the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana (JOI). This event, which tests students' knowledge of Japanese culture, history and society, was held at Valparaiso High School, attracted some 200 students from 15 high schools.
In 2010, the Michigan City High School Envirothon teams both advanced to the State competition. Envirothon is an academic competition that tests student's knowledge of soil, aquatics, forestry, and wildlife. It also includes an additional category every year, which was groundwater in 2010.
On February 19, 2011, at the Science Olympiad Regional Competition at Indiana University Northwest
Indiana University Northwest
Indiana University Northwest is a regional university campus in the Indiana University system in Gary, Indiana, USA, established in 1963.-Courses:...
, the MCHS team won first place in an unprecedented fourteen gold medals (in the Astronomy, Chemistry Lab, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Fossils, Microbe Mission, Mouse Trap Vehicle, Ornithology, Protein Modelling, Remote Sensing, Game On, Come Fly With Me, and Robot Ramble categories), won 24 out of 26 medals in all, and swept the second-place team, rival Chesterton High School by 33 points. This marked the first time MCHS has ever progressed beyond the preliminary regional competition in all of its ten years of SO participation. This was in part to a restructuring of the team, which included three self-appointed and team-accepted team captains, who reorganized the team into smaller sub-teams, each with its own area of expertise, including the school's first-ever robotics team, who designed, built, and operated a remotely controlled robotic vehicle and played a big part in winning first place. In the State-level competition, the team placed eighteen out of 24 indiana high schools that managed to make it to State.