Congratulations to our IB Class  of 2017!  Mesa Public Schools is proud to recognize you for your accomplishment of completing our most rigorous program of study available - the IB Program. The class of 2017 is a group of outstanding individuals that includes 13 National Merit Commended Scholars, National Hispanic Scholars, Wood's Scholars, Neal Scholars, A Colangelo Scholar...

Congratulations to the following IB students for their awesome work at the Maricopa County Fair this Spring: Taylor Waldron for Reserve Champion Dairy Beef Devyani Sud for Best Turkey Annie Hoffman received a 1st and 2nd place on her Royal Palm Turkeys Katie Clontz received 2 1st places and 2 2nd places on her ducks   IB Economics students have participated all year...

Congratulations to the following IB students for their success at the Recent National History Day (NHD) Competition: Abigail Stockwell won second place in the Performance category for her project called: Anti-Lynching Activism: The Heart of Georgia Douglas Johnson which used her craft of slam poetry to portray the life of an little known activist whose work eventually...

Congratulations to all of our Warriors on their many accomplishments! Westwood Robotics won the Innovation in Control Award for the most outstanding control systems and program integration of the 50 teams competing in the Arizona North Regional.  Earning this award is great recognition of the hard work and dedication of the entire team and our programmers in particular.  Super...

Congrats to the following IB students who placed in the recent DECA District competition : 1st Place: KALENA OORLOG , marketing communications; ANA URQUIJO and SKYE RIGGS-DAVIS in sports & entertainment marketing as well as 1ST Place BRANDON DEWEY and DANIEL LEWIS  in buying & merchandising team decision making.  Congratulations to IB senior ATHENA LE who was...

Westwood High School was surprised by a visit from Senator John McCain this week. He wanted to learn about some of our innovative program options for our students and how we are preparing our students for college and their future beyond. He spent some time speaking with our Superintendent, Dr. Cowan, as well as hearing first-hand about Westwood from our students. They did an...

We are proud of our 13 IB students that have been named Commended Scholars in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program ! This is a new recorded for Westwood and represents nearly 20% of our IB senior class! Congratulations to our IB Warriors: Nathan Bergman Sarah  Gee Molly Pavey Jeremy Chesney David Jaffe Jonathan  Planten...

Three Westwood IB seniors win the competitive scholarship package from the Flinn Foundation. The merit-based scholarship, given to only 20 Arizona seniors this year, is valued at more than $115,000. Congratulations to our seniors: Maeve Kennedy, Ivette Montes and Andrew Roberts on being selected as a 2016 Flinn Scholar. With three scholars out of only 20 selected throughout...

Congratulations to our Academic Decathlon team who placed 4th overall in the Regional competition this weekend. Jessica Yan won silver medals in Literature and Science. Frankie O'Neill won silver in Science and bronze in Music. Ameya Thatte won a gold medal in Music. Liam Wilson won gold in Essay and gold in Interview. Nathan Bergman won 1st PLACE OVERALL IN...

A huge congrats to the following IB Warriors. Our students are doing great things every day, here are just a few of the recent highlights: Westwood IB seniors Clayton H.  and Andrew R.  have qualified as semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. These students qualified because of their top scores on the PSAT exam their junior year, and represent the top 1%...