Milliken Mills High School is a high school

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 in the town of Markham

Markham, Ontario

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, Ontario

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, Canada

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. It is one of 29 high schools in the York Region District School Board

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The high school's construction was not scheduled to finish until January 1989 because of a construction worker strike. The students were sent to Unionville High School on September 1988 for the first semester of the school year. Unionville High students went to school from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and the Milliken Mills students went to school from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. Milliken Mills was fully operational in Spring, 1989.

Since its founding in 1988, the enrollment has remained around 1,600 students. Its service boundary area stretches north from Steeles Avenue

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, west to Warden Avenue, south from the 14th Avenue, and east to McCowan Road. Milliken Mills High School is a multicultural school at the level of both students and staff, a microcosm of the surrounding community of Markham.

Technology

In 1993, Milliken became the first High School in Canada to register its own domain name, www.mmhs.ca. Initially, Internet email and Usenet newsgroup access were the only services available. By May 1997, Milliken had a dedicated connection to the Internet, and has been running online services ever since. In 1999, Milliken subsequently received a major network upgrade. Milliken Mills is now connected to the Internet via a fibre optic connection with an internal switched network running at 100MB and a switched backbone running at over 1GB. Today, the school is equipped with over 250 workstations.

Feeder schools

• Aldergrove Public School
• Highgate Public School
• Milliken Mills Public School
• Randall Public School
• Wilclay Public School

Clubs

• Amnesty International
• Anime Club
• Announcement Team — informing students about daily announcements
• Arts Club
• Bakers at Milliken (B.A.M.)
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Character Matters
• Chinese Culture Club
• Concert Choir
• Debate Team
• D.E.C.A.
• Editing Club
• Empowered Student Partnership (ESP)
• Fashion Club
• Free The Children (F.T.C.)
• French Club
• Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)
• Green Inc.
• Robotics Club
• Helping Hands
• Improv Club
• Junior Band
• Kids Help Phone
• KnightWriter Student Newspaper
• Leaders in Action (L.I.A.)
• Lung Association
• Math Club
• Milliken Athletic Council (M.A.C.)
• Muslim Students Association (MSA)
• Nubian Club
• Percussion Ensemble
• Presidents Club
• Readers In Action
• Red Cross Youth Action Council
• Science Club
• Senior Band
• SLAM — Student Leaders at Milliken
• SOS (Stomping out Stigma) @ Milliken
• Stage Band
• Student Activities Council (S.A.C.)
• Tru2Christ
• Vocal Jazz
• World Vision
• Youth of South Asia (Y.O.S.A.)

Notable alumni

• George Kottaras
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   - Catcher for Milwaukee Brewers
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  , Major League Baseball.
• Corey Muirhead
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   - basketball player for Cholet Basket
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   in France
• Michael Zador - Goalie, Currently plays for Oshawa Generals
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   of the OHL
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  , Drafted to the NHL by the Tampa Bay Lightning
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