Maquoketa High School

Health science students were able to try out the new med tables obtained through RPP with the AEA.

HOSA students helping to put good in the world by hosting their fall blood drive. Maquoketa High school students doing great things to help others.

💙National FFA Convention 2026 Recap 💛 Tuesday, members traveled to Indianapolis with a stop at Fair Oaks Farms for the Dairy Adventure and Pig Adventure, learning about the dairy and swine industries! Wednesday was a full day at convention! Members explored the career expo and shopping mall and attended the first session. That evening brought some friendly competition at laser tag! Thursday, members toured Ozark Fisheries, a hatchery that raises koi and goldfish, before heading back to explore more of the expo. That night, we enjoyed the rodeo put on by our local Three Hills Rodeo! Friday, Mrs. George’s group traveled home, while the second group toured Indianapolis Motor Speedway, visited the SAE Showcase, and attended student workshops. Saturday, Maranda Wood and Sawyer Burken received their American FFA Degrees! We are so proud of their hard work and dedication as they close this chapter of their FFA experience. Congratulations to both of you! 👏 A big thank-you to Johnora Renner for being our second driver and joining us on this adventure!

🎃 Maquoketa FFA October Fun Night! 🍕 FFA Members enjoyed a fun evening carving pumpkins, eating pizza, and spending time together!

Things were going great and students were hard at work in Ms. Paxson's English classes this week!

Language Arts Essentials students are working with small groups and partners to complete questions about our class novel, The Fault in Our Stars.

English 9 students are about to start reading two stories about the Holocaust. They worked with partners and as a class to create a Know/Wonder chart with things they already knew about the topic.

Great work all around!

Mrs. Manthei and accounting students spent Tuesday at the ISCPA High School Accounting Showcase at the University of Dubuque! Studetns started the day hearing from keynote fraud speaker Nathan Mueller, students then had around an hour to analyze a real-world case on financial statement fraud and create a presentation to then present recommendations to expert judges. Students also had the opportunity to network with local Iowa CPA'S and tour the beautiful UD campus! 23 teams competed and the 3 students from MHS did a fantastic job using critical thinking skills and presented professionally, earning great scores! Thank you to the Iowa Society of CPA's for this great opportunity and for teaching our students how to use critical thinking skills and ethics in real world situations!!

Intro To Health Career students were provided another great opportunity today when a local paramedic brought up the ambulance to talk about his career, as well as as other opportunities at the local hospital for employment and job shadowing

Intro to Health Career students were provided with a pretty amazing opportunity for AirCare to fly in and explain the different careers available and answer all of the questions about what they do

HOSA students spent the day in Des Moines at the Fall Leadership Conference, where they had an opportunity to participate in workshops an escape room and a service project

A few of the HOSA students showed up to help volunteer at the Alzheimer's walk. Students helped set up and direct traffic throughout the walk.

Elena took the time to come and talk to the Intro to Health Careers class about the many opportunities offered by MercyOne Genesis.

The sun was shining and accounting took advantage of the nice weather to practice writing transactions outside this afternoon!!

Intro To Health Career students got to practice some hands on athletic trainer skills from our very own trainer Bree after learning about her career.

Today was the first day of our college application event. Twenty- five seniors came today. Those 25 students competed 33 college applications. Five of them got their studentaid.gov accounts. One started their FAFSA and one completed their FAFSA. We hope to see the rest of our seniors tomorrow that want to complete applications or get their studentaid.gov accounts!

Our seniors just wrapped up our two day college application event! We had 41 seniors attend. Those students completed 65 college applications. 17 students set up their studentaid.gov accounts and 7 of them started or completed their FAFSA!

HOSA students provided some hands on first aid and CPR training during Farm Safety Day.

🌾 Maquoketa FFA Ag Safety Day 2026 🌾 Maquoketa FFA hosted its annual Ag Safety Day at the Jackson County Fairgrounds! More than 50 FFA members helped lead hands-on safety stations and work with students throughout the day. A special thank you to our community partners who hosted additional stations: Lori Schnoor with NRCS, Macey Jurczyk with Jackson County Conservation, ADM, and the Maquoketa Fire Department, with Greg Bopes leading their station. The Fire Department also provided a vehicle extrication demonstration using a car donated by B & G Salvage. Chris Cornelius also spoke about her farm accident and how to keep a positive attitude even during the hard times. Thank you to the Jackson County Fairgrounds for providing the facilities and to all of our sponsors who helped provide lunch and a T-shirt for every student: Maquoketa Livestock Exchange • Franzen Family Tractors & Parts • Hwy 64 Auctions, LLC • Becker Veterinary Clinic • Eastern Iowa Overhead Door • P&K Midwest • Cavanagh Mowing • Cornelius Seed • Novak Custom Baling • ADM • Rolling Hills Veterinary Services • B & G Salvage • Citizens State Bank • Equity Livestock • River Valley Cooperative Thank you to everyone who helped make another successful Ag Safety Day possible! 💙💛

Mark your calendars for the HOSA fall blood drive!

Family and marriage therapist Marinna Kroh spent time talking to the Intro to Health Career students about her job.

Business Management class has been talking about business organization structures and learned how the different types worked by being assigned a structure type and then seeing who could create the tallest marshmallow tower! Students learned the advantages and disadvantages of being a sole proprietor, partnership or working in a corporation.