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February 20, 2024

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From February 13-29, HPHS will hold its first ever “Beat the Bell Challenge!" This event encourages friendly competition among classes (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors) to minimize tardiness while competing for a class prize. This song will be played for a few seconds with one minute left of each passing period. Daily updates on tardy totals will be shared with students

Congrats to Jack Gordon for winning the 2024 Charity Drive Ping Pong Tournament and to Nate Goldberg for 2nd place! Thanks to everyone who came out and donated money to the Cancer Wellness Center. We'll do it again next year!

Activities

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THIS WEEK ONLY- Activities Fair Part 2

This week during lunch periods, our HPHS clubs will be in the cafeteria with information on what their club is all about.


EOT Club is hosting Teach Day on Friday, 3/8. Students can work with a staff member to learn their job and teach or co-teach one class or a full day of classes. Students must apply by 2/23. School monitors have the QR code to register.

Come to Book Club on Thursday, February 22nd at 3:10 in the Library! We will discuss Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Copies are available in the Library, and eBooks are available to check out on our website:


The Black Student Union is growing stronger and stronger. The BSU welcomes new members. To express interest, questions, or information about the BSU use this link.


Hello GIANT community! We are inviting you to join HPHS Girl Up in celebrating International Women's Day by participating in our eighth annual Leadership Symposium featuring a distinguished panel of women innovators, creators, activists, and leaders. The IWD Symposium will take place Wednesday, March 13th from 7:30-8:45am in the Auditorium. We welcome all who are interested to reach out to the Girl Up Sponsors (Melissa Szlachta & Rachel Alongi) for more information on attending.

ACTIVITY TICKET: Make sure to purchase your Activity Ticket! An Activity Tickets is your yearbook purchase along with free entry to football, basketball, STUNTS and more!

Please see our website for details.

Athletics

All students interested in playing boy's lacrosse this year will need to attend our preseason meeting on February 22 at 3:30 in room A342. If you can not make it you need to email coach Werhane at rwerhand@dist113.org



Athletic Department Updates

  1. Congrats to our Varsity Girls Basketball Team on a great season.  The season came to an end with a 3 point loss to Chicago Taft last week in the Regional Semi-Final. The team won 14 games this year and earned a share of the CSL North Conference Title.
  2. Senior Wrestler Dmitry Derbedyenyev went 2-2 at the IHSA State Finals in Champaign, IL this past weekend.  Dmitry is the first HP wrestler to win a match downstate since 2016.  He ended the season with an overall record of 34-5, capping off an amazing career.
  3. We had three members of the Boys Swim & Dive Program qualify for this coming weekend’s IHSA State Finals in Westmont, IL.  Liam Hoyer qualified in the 50 Free and 100 Free for athletes with disabilities.  Freshman Andrew Blauer qualified in the 100 Butterfly and Senior Noam Kulbak qualified in diving, placing first at the Libertyville Sectional.
  4. Good luck to Clara Ugaz who will be competing at the IHSA Girls Wrestling State Finals in Bloomington, IL this weekend.
  5. Good luck to our Varsity Boys Basketball Team as they get ready to take on Glenbrook South in a Regional Semi-Final contest at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, February 21.  That game will be played at GBS.



Boys Volleyball tryouts will begin on Monday, March 4th. In order to try out, you must have an updated physical and be registered on RSchool (linked here). For the most up to date information, please join the HPHS Boys Volleyball Schoology group. The access code is: K9F4-NGZ4-M7VRM. If you have any questions, reach out to Coach Hotwagner (jhotwagner@dist113.org).

There will be an INFORMATIONAL MEETING for any boys interested in trying out for BOYS TENNIS. The Meeting will take place on Friday, Feb. 23 immediately after school in Rm. H210. We will discuss tryout times and answer any questions. See you there!!!

Check out the entire athletic schedule here:

https://www.centralsuburbanleague.org/public/genie/210/school/5/date/2023-11-27/view/week/


Visit our Website for more information!

Counseling & Postsecondary Counseling

Attention College Bound Seniors! Please see the following link

for details on scholarships for college. Don't hesitate to contact Mr. Becker, rbecker@dist113.org, with questions.

Fundraising

Charity Drive is now closed. Thank you for all your support HPHS!!!!!


Keep an eye out for the next club fundraiser!

Parent to Parent Information

No news today check back next week!

Community Opportunities 

Members of the HP Giants Club Varsity hockey team volunteer their time yesterday (2/19) at our Garrett's Skate event. This free event sponsored by the Collopy Family was to introduce the sport of hockey to kids in our community, and to reduce financial barriers to the sport. We had 75 kids from the community show up to this event, and the players were excellent role models for these kids!



GIANT values

Show Up: the importance of being present and attending class

Beat the Bell: the importance of being on time to you, your classmates, and your teacher

Disconnect to Reconnect: the importance of disconnecting from our devices to more fully engage with each other and our classes

Taking Care of our Casa y Familia: the importance of treating each other with respect, kindness, and care, as we are all family members in this House on Vine.



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