Maharishi School’s Speech teams put on great performances last weekend, to a sold-out theater. Coach, Brendan Thomas said, “the shows were a great success and I'm so glad the students had a chance to perform for such great audiences.” The announcement of the teams selected to perform at the All-State Festival came in late on Sunday.... Read More »
At the regional competition for the Iowa High School Speech Association in Keokuk, 10 of 12 Maharishi School performances received the highest ranking and will perform in the state competition on February 4th in Cedar Rapids. This year’s performances are again directed by Brendan Thomas, winner of the IHSSA Critic’s Choice Award multiple times both as... Read More »
By Dr. Richard Beall for TM Magazine in July 2011. To see the article in it's entirety go to: http://issue2.tmmagazine.org/maharishi-school-magic.html I’m six miles high, flying across the Midwest to Knoxville, TN, to join 14,000 of the world’s most out-of-the-box inventive kids. It’s Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals, and we have five Maharishi School state champions representing Iowa. This is... Read More »
Congratulations to the graduating Maharishi School seniors who received recognition at the 2011 award ceremony. While all students are commended for their achievements, a select few are chosen to receive special honors from their teachers, peers, and third-party scholarship foundations. Department Awards Virginia Buckley Award: Given to the top art student who is actively seeking a... Read More »
Maharishi School’s Destination ImagiNation teams had another successful trip to the 5 day international creative problem solving competition at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 24-29. The middle level girls’ team gave an outstanding performance that wowed the appraisers and earned them 5th place. The team’s solution involved both acting and technical (engineering) elements and included an... Read More »
Caroline Fulcher, Maharishi School junior, has won Second Honorable Mention in the Iowa Poetry Association contest, high school division. Fulcher’s submission, "Ruins On Old Vineyard Road" will be published in Lyrical Iowa 2011, the 66th annual anthology of the Iowa Poetry Association. Fulcher’s poem was one of 36 poems chosen out of 460 entries to be... Read More »
Maharishi School sophomore Nani Shreck received honorable mention for a photo entitled “Flower” at the Congressional Art Competition on May 7. Nani was excited to meet Representative Dave Loebsack. In the spring of every year, the United States House of Representatives hosts this competition to recognize talented young artists from across the nation. The winning student... Read More »
One family at Maharishi School stands out as performing very well at Destination ImagiNation, a creative problem-solving competition. The three Stakland children have gone to Global Finals for 10 consecutive years. They have also placed numerous times in the top 10. "The Stakland family has been participating in DI since Jordan (left) was in 4th grade,... Read More »
Maharishi School students won nine awards, including Best of Show, at the Southeast Iowa Superconference Art Competition at Iowa Wesleyan College, on April 5. Students from nineteen high schools in southeast Iowa spent part of the day in all things art-related while professional artists and instructors acted as muses to inspired their creativity. Carol Keller-Hein, one... Read More »
Nine teams from Maharishi School competed April 9 at the Iowa Destination ImagiNation Competition in Ames. Five of those teams took first place and will compete at the International competition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the week of May 25. They will compete against thousands of students from over 30 countries. Destination ImagiNation is an... Read More »