Northern State University announced the students who earned recognition on the President’s List and Dean’s List for the 2024 spring semester. The President’s List honors full-time students who achieved a perfect 4.00 GPA. The Dean’s List acknowledges students with GPAs ranging from 3.50 to 3.99.  Students on the list from... Read more

Vocalists from the Milbank High School Choir performed for an adjudicator during the 2024 Region III Solo and Ensemble Music Contest. Solo performances were based on tone, intonation, accuracy, interpretation, vocal technique, and performance factors such as literature choice and professional conduct. Ensemble groups were also critiqued on their ability... Read more

Vocalist Nick Fonder received the only  I+ rating at the 2023 Region III Solo and Ensemble Music Contest  The 35 vocal soloists and 35 members of the Milbank High School Choir performed in front of an adjudicator on Wednesday, March 1, in Milbank. MHS vocalists received: One Superior Plus  (I+), 24 Superiors (I) and 15... Read more

Milbank was represented by 22 seventh and eighth graders from Milbank Middle School at the 2022 Festival of Young Voices. The festival was held on March 8 in Brookings.  Students rehearsed during the day and presented their grand concert that evening at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of... Read more

Milbank vocalists received two Superior Plus ratings (I+), 18 Superior ratings (I) and 18 Excellent ratings at the 2022 Region III Solo and Ensemble Music Contest on Wednesday, February 23, in Watertown. Fifty-two MHS choir members, including 32 soloists participated. Solo performances were based on the following criteria: tone, intonation, accuracy, interpretation, vocal technique and performance factors such as literature choice... Read more

Bulldog Barrett Schneck entered an elite club at MHS. He recorded 100 career wrestling wins and kept on going. Barrett, a junior at MHS, now has 112 wins and sits solidly on the list.  Head wrestling coach for MHS, Jeremy Tostenson, says, “Barrett placed eighth last year at the state tournament and is on a mission to be higher on the podium this... Read more

Milbank FFA member and MHS senior Korbin Leddy earned recognition as a national finalist in the 2021 National FFA Agriscience Fair. Leddy was recognized for his research studying the impact of COVID-19 on students’ post-secondary education plans.  Leddy conducted a survey in the spring of 2021 to gauge if the global issue had altered students future educational plans. For his... Read more

The Milbank High School Debate Team participated in the Lewis and Clark Debate Tournament in Yankton on January 25 and January 26. The MHS team brought home second place in Class “A”. Trevor Nolting was also a finalist in Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking. Team members participating in Yankton were: Heidi Meyer,... Read more

Forty vocal soloists and 16 vocal ensemble members from the Milbank High School Choir performed at the Region III solo and ensemble music contest February 28, at Watertown High School. The vocalists from Milbank received 30 Superiors (I), and 11 Excellents (II). Solo performances were based on: tone, intonation, accuracy,... Read more

Korbin Leddy, a member of Grant County 4-H and an eighth-grader at Milbank Middle School, was recognized as a South Dakota 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Award Distinguished Finalist. He receives an engraved bronze medallion. Leddy began leading food drives when he was in third grade, and has mobilizied his... Read more