Snip! CSD Cuts Ribbon At Newly Rebuilt Mount Jordan Middle
The Mountaineers have come home. With the snip of a red ribbon twisting in the summer afternoon wind, officials at Canyons District and Mount Jordan Middle officially opened the school for business. The celebratory ribbon-cutting event, held Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, attracted more than 500 students, parents, teachers, staff, former students and members of the […]
Community Invited to Ribbon-Cutting For Rebuilt Mount Jordan
Help us welcome the Mountaineers back home. The community is invited to a ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the opening of the newly rebuilt Mount Jordan Middle School. The Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 event starts with a reception at 5:30 p.m. A 6 p.m. ceremony will be at 9351 Mountaineer Lane the traditional site of […]
Midvale Crowned CSD Intramural Chess Champs
Midvale Middle School dominated the 2015 Canyons School District Middle School Intramurals Chess Tournament. The team won the District Championship and every board, finishing with a perfect score. Individual Midvale student winners are: Table 1: Stephen Yu Table 2: Alex Qi Table 3: Bryan Guo Table 4: Sraavya Pinjala Table 5: Wensen Zhang Table 6: […]
Orientations Aim to Ease First-Day Jitters for First-Timers at Middle, High Schools
Canyons District wants to ease the first-day-of-school jitters for students who are entering middle and high school this year. To the end of helping students acclimate to their new, bigger surroundings, all CSD middle and high schools are hosting orientations for secondary-school first-timers on Aug. 19 the day before the official first day of the […]
Crews hard at work on summer construction, renovation projects
Mount Jordan is rising. The first steel beams that will gird the weight of the new middle school are now standing tall at the construction site where crews have been working since 2013. The new school, which is on target to open in fall 2015, was made possible by a $250 million bond that voters approved […]
Mount Jordan Takes AVID Schoolwide
Mount Jordan Middle will be moving into a new, state-of-the-art building in fall 2015, but Principal Molly Hart is making sure her students are getting ready now with education technology and innovative teaching strategies. “We’re preparing to go into a new building, and we needed to make sure we were prepared for a 21st century […]
Check Mate! Midvale Dominates at Chess Championships
No royal decree necessary: Midvale Middle School is the chess king. Midvale’s team dominated the competition at the Canyons Middle School Intramurals Chess Tournament on Jan. 25, 2014, where the students scored 40.5 of 42 points. Second-place went to Mount Jordan, with 27.5 points. Draper Park came in third with 25.5 points. Additionally, Midvale students […]
Check Mate! Middle School Students Prep for Chess Tourney
Canyons District sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders are preparing to square off at the CSD Middle School Chess Tournament Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. The fourth-annual tournament begins at 9:30 a.m. at Mount Jordan Middle School, 11150 S. 300 East in Sandy, and includes the top six competitors from each of Canyons’ eight middle schools. Sixth-graders are […]
Mount Jordan Artist Renderings Available
While colors and other finishing details remain in the works, artist renderings of the new Mount Jordan Middle School have been made available for public view. The renderings were created by MHTN Architects, the architectural firm selected by the Board of Education to design the school following a competitive bid process. Hogan and Associates Construction […]
Construction Officially Starts At New Mount Jordan Middle
With a resounding crash of brick and glass, Canyons District celebrated the start of work on the new Mount Jordan Middle by tearing down one of the school’s old walls. More than 200 parents, teachers, students and members of the community attended the Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 event. Dignitaries included Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan, members […]
