Minnechaug Regional High School

The school newspaper is called The Smoke Signal. The Student Council achieved the National Association of Student Council's highest honor, the National Gold Council of Excellence Award, every year since 2012. Roughly 70 students serve on the Student Council and dozens have been elected by peer schools to serve in regional and statewide student council positions. ==Campus==

Circa the 2010s a new lighting system was implemented that was intended to reduce costs; it had 7,000 lights total. The system relied on software for management purposes. However the software stopped working on August 24, 2021, and after that date, the school administration was unable to turn off the lighting system. Corky Siemaszko of NBC News wrote in 2023 that this was "costing taxpayers a small fortune." The lights staying on in the event of a failure was intended to maintain security at Minnechaug Regional. ==Notable alumni==

• Erin Crocker, race car driver • Curtis Holdsworth, United States men's national artistic gymnastics team member • Kelly Overton (1997), actress • Scott Rasmussen (1974), co-founder of ESPN and founder of Rasmussen Reports • Ann Sarnoff, CEO and Chairwoman of Warner Bros. and former President of BBC Studios America. • Mike Trombley, MLB pitcher • Janice E. Voss, astronaut • Benton Whitley, NFL linebacker ==References==