Mira Costa newsmakers
The Mira Costa Mustang Morning News staff received multiple awards at the National Scholastic Press Association high school journalism convention in Minneapolis from Nov. 17 – 20. The staff was a finalist for the Broadcast Pacemaker award, a finalist for feature story of the year, and received an honorable mention for news story of the year.
The ‘best delegates’
Mira Costa High School’s Model United Nations team is ranked number one in the country, according to the website, bestdelegate.com. As part of the program, students attend conferences locally and internationally as delegates representing different countries. At the conferences, they simulate the United Nations by debating on and creating solutions for global issues, including child soldiers, hunger, water sanitation and overpopulation.
Two weeks ago, Mira Costa received the best school award at a conference at McGill University in Montreal. Nearly 20 students won individual awards, out of the 800 students from around the world who competed in the conference, according to Adam Gerard, Mira Costa junior and chief of staff for the program.
Trash-free Lunch Challenge
Parent volunteers and students visited the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts’ landfill and materials recycling facility to kick off Grades of Green’s Trash-free Lunch Challenge, a competition between participating South Bay schools to make their trash systems more eco-friendly.
An educated city
Manhattan Beach ranks as the fifth most educated city in California, according to recently released Census data. Nearly 73 percent of Manhattan Beach residents have earned a bachelors degree or more, according to the California Department of Finance’s Demographic Research Unit. Palo Alto is number one on the list, at 79.7 percent. The analysis is based on data for residents age 25 and older and on populations larger than 20,000 people.
Fun fact
An estimated 248 million turkeys are expected to be raised in the United States this year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. In 2010, the turkeys produced in the United States weighed 7.1 billion pounds and were valued at $4.4 billion.
