What’s Happening at MIA?

The Marco Island Academy Thespian Society is the school's theatre honor society dedicated to performing and learning about all things on stage and off stage. The current officers are Riley Letendre as President, Rachel Weiner as Vice President, Aiden Boughton as Secretary, Robert Davis as Treasurer, and Arlette Villela as Communications Director. Currently, they are working on the spring musical, ...

The National Honor Society represents the best minds of what this school was to offer. Sponsored by Mrs. Vanessa Koch, our assistant principal, this prestigious club is open to students who exhibit strong grades/GPA and excellent volunteer characteristics. This club showcases the best of what our school has to offer, great priorities, fun volunteer opportunities, and overall respectable courtesy to...

The History and Culture Club at MIA allows students to travel with fellow classmates to another country. It is sponsored by Mrs. Lori Galiana. This club is for anyone who wants to travel the world or just go on a fun trip with friends and teachers. There is also a monthly fee that covers travel that must be paid. This year, the club is going to Spain and Portugal!  I interviewed Mrs. Galiana for more info on ...

Either metaphorically or just for fun, art has always been a popular form of media ever since the stone age. From paintings depicting hunts of mammoths to something from the diverse imaginations of individuals, art plays a role in our everyday lives. However, our school has never been notorious for art, which is where the art club comes into play.  The art club at Marco Island Academy is a place where people fro...

The wave is an academic society at Marco Island Academy that allows students to express themselves through writing and other aspects. The Wave has been around since 2016 and has only continued to grow. This year, Abigail Gallup is the club’s Editor-in-Chief alongside numerous other editors. Mr. Scalia is the club’s advisor who runs journalism, an elective at MIA, as well as Legatum, the yearboo...

SNHS is a club at MIA that focuses on scientific endeavors and works to involve more people in the scientific community. They are involved in volunteering activities to help spread the good word about science as well.    Mr. Swope, one of the science instructors at MIA, runs the club. Responsibilities are also delegated among three student-officers; President Haylen Irvan, Treasurer Lily B...

 Fellowship for Christian Athletes is a faith-based club in which MIA students can gather and be a part of a short bible study before the school day starts. FCA was first brought to MIA by Nancy Chamberlin, who ran the club for about 5 years. Kyle Rahtjen took over the club back in the Spring of 2021.     Kyle was a teacher for over 9 years and is now the youth and worship leader at Christ Com...

The advisor for Culinary Club is Mr. Bruce. Each week, a different member of the club is chosen to make a meal and bring it in to share with the other members. Meetings used to be every Wednesday to discuss who would cook when but meetings ended. Now that meetings have ended, Mr. Bruce goes around at lunch and asks each member, who wants to cook and on what day. They used to meet in his classroom b...

Chess club is a place where a bunch of young minds come together to have fun and challenge each other at an abstract strategy board game. I interviewed a senior in the Chess club. I asked how to get involved in the chess club. In case someone was interested in chess he told me “you can just show up every Thursday in room 314 after school and just play”. I asked him what makes the Chess club diffe...

Interviewed: Taylor Drott, Caitlyn Sadofsky Who are the officers in the club? Taylor: Interact doesn’t exactly have officers. We have 4 councilmen and a President. I am a councilman with Elle, Phoenix and Ava. Caitlyn is the president of interact. Finally, Miss Scott is our advisor.  Caitlyn: The officers were voted last year by the club members. They are Elle Richardson, Phoenix G, Taylor ...

Marco Island Academy’s Key Club has been a club all about helping out around the community. The club is led by their advisor Ms. Galiana, President Phoenix Gutierrez, and Vice president Taylor Drott. Key Club has over 60 members and they run and host many events every month of the school year. All about volunteer work they host beach clean-ups and help out at the St. Matthews food drive. They host ...

At Marco Island Academy, there is a club called the Spanish National Honor Society, also known as SHH. It is an honor society for students in Spanish classes, the club focuses on the Spanish language and culture. The club is sponsored by two teachers, Senora Mariah Walther and Senor Fernando Higuera. The club encourages students to keep their passion for the Spanish Language and improve their know...