The Mount Pleasant High School chapter of HOSA: Future Health Professionals competed in the Area 3 Spring Leadership Conference on January 19-20 at Rock Hill High School in Frisco. The conference hosted approximately 1900 students who competed in over 50 events.

P.E. Wallace Assistant Principal, Rusty Duke, was honored with an MPISD Above and Beyond award at the January meeting of the MPISD Board of Trustees on Monday, January 22. On Wednesday, December 13, P.E. Wallace staff member, Tracie Johnson, began choking while eating lunch. Duke quickly performed the Heimlich maneuver, preventing Johnson from sustaining serious harm. Duke was nominated for the special award by Johnson and P.E. Wallace Principal, Nathan Rider, in appreciation for his life-saving action.