McFarland High students recap Community Week, tournaments and fundraising
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A McFarland High student presenter detailed Community Week activities, club events, DECA competition results, performing‑arts trips and a cereal‑box fundraiser currently led by juniors, and answered board questions about donation accounting.
A McFarland High School student reporter identified as Dean gave the board a multi‑part student report that highlighted Community Week activities, club competitions, performing-arts plans, athletics results and ongoing student fundraising.
Dean told the board that Community Week (Feb. 16–20) included Student Council’s Community Day, Hope Squad’s self‑care activities with green mental‑health ribbons, a multicultural club event celebrating flags and cultures, Letters of Love creating more than 100 kindness notes, and Girl Up’s Friendship Day outreach. "The biggest and most major one is definitely how we closed out our annual community week here at MHS from February 16 to February 20," Dean said.
The student also detailed academic and extracurricular successes: three visual arts students qualified for the state Visual Arts Classic (state contest April 10 at Edgewood College), DECA sent 49 students to districts with 23 competing at state and several advancing toward international competition (ICDC), and the band and music departments are preparing a biannual tour. On athletics, Dean reported recent regional and sectional results and noted coach Beau Brzezinski was named Division 2 Section 4 Coach of the Year.
Dean provided the board a progress update on the Do Good Wisconsin Cereal Box Challenge: juniors 128, freshmen 127, seniors 96 and sophomores 47, and noted community donations left at the public‑library drop-off are not counted in individual grade standings. When a board member asked how anonymously dropped boxes get credited, Dean recommended leaving a note or attributing them to a teacher’s advisory account.
The student report closed with reminders about upcoming events — Hope Week, district solo and ensemble, and community volunteer needs — and a general thank-you to the board for the opportunity to present.
What's next: the report is informational; no board action was taken specifically on the student report during the meeting.