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Student Achievements: Sweet Sounds of All-State Successes
After competing with thousands of high school students across the state, five Highland Park High School students have made the All-State Band and one All-State Choir.
Camps
Language Learning, For a Year or Summer, Brings Life Lessons
Before leaving for my study-abroad year in Spain, I heard the same line from 10 different friends: “Bro, you should be grateful to get out of junior year in the States.”
Sky-High Radish Experiment Takes an Unfortunate Squirrely Turn
Apparently radish seeds are safer above the stratosphere than potted radish plants on ground level in a science teacher’s yard – at least when squirrels are involved.
Ecstatic About Lamplighter Layers Eggs-Selling Business
Collecting eggs from your chickens doesn’t come without small risks.
With Masks, Outdoor Performances, Scots Arts Performances Must Go On
Highland Park High School performing arts teachers and students have managed to persevere with creativity and flexibility despite the many pandemic challenges that emerged during the past year.
PC Hope Coming to Your Door
After a year in which hope seemed in short supply, a community task force aims to boost public awareness about mental health resources available for students and families.
Happenings on the Hill
Monthly conversations between an entrepreneur and SMU engineering researcher Mitch Thornton created new opportunities for both of them.
STAAR Must Be Taken in Person, State Says
Public school students will be required to come on campus to take the STAAR test this year, even if they’re learning virtually.
How to Get Your Teen to Care About Managing Money
Getting your teens to care about managing money and taking control of their own financial decisions may be a bit like getting them to eat their vegetables or put on sunscreen.
Student Achievements: Three to Celebrate
Ava Thigpen
STEAM
What Do Scientists and Engineers Look Like? Well, You
The 3-D printed statues produced after scanning 125 female innovators named American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors in 2019 have at least this much in common – they are orange.
Double Agent: ‘Big Play Zay’
Don’t let his fashion-model looks fool you. Isaiah Pedack isn’t afraid to cover his face in eye-black and get dirty in the trenches.
Happenings on the Hill
Still need a gift for the die-hard SMU football fan with expensive tastes?
Greenhill Senior One of the Heroes for Children
For Greenhill High School senior Carter Weinstein, thankfulness looks like service – service to families battling childhood cancer.
Election
HPHS Senior Finds Learning Opportunities in 2020 Election
Historically, young Americans have tended toward less political involvement than older generations seen consistently at the polls.
Happenings on the Hill
Dallas Academy and SMU enjoy what academy leaders call as “win-win” arrangement.
Student Achievements: Three to Celebrate
Boy Scouts with the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church-chartered Troop 577, tackled a project to help solitary bees. St. Mark’s School of Texas junior Spencer Burke (left) led the effort.
Greenhill Teens Launch Students for Happiness
Greenhill School student Kelly Meng first founded Happiness Club with her friends to help classmates destress around tests and exams, but the pandemic exposed a need for something more.
Student Achievements: Three to Celebrate
Want to spend 100-degree weather outside building a structure? A group of boys led by Boy Scout Nicholas Meadows of Highland Parks Troop 82 did just that.
Hyer Elementary’s New Facilities Come With Nods To Tradition
While Hyer Elementary Huskies returned to a newly-rebuilt building in September, some traditions, like parents and children eating together in Balto’s Courtyard, remain.