HHS UIL One-Act Play

Hendrickson High Schools One Act play, August: Osage County, advanced to the District competition yesterday.  Many students were recognized with individual awards.  Two Honorable Mention All-Star Cast awards were given to Janie Townsend for her role as Barbara and Elle Williams for her role as Karen.  Two All-Star cast awards were given to Mackenzie Dobbs for her role as Violet and Kiersta Hoover for her role as Mattie Fae.  The overall Best Actor award for the Zone A district competition was awarded to Tony Nguyen for his roles of Beverly and Steve in the production.  The Technicians were also honored at Zone.  Katy Mills received the Individual Technician award and the entire Hawk Tech Crew was honored with the Zone A Overall Outstanding Tech Award as a team.  It was a successful day for this company!  HHS competes in the District competition on April 4th in Bastrop. 

Two MORE Noteworthy HHS Events for March

It was a pretty busy week for our students.  All students were wrapping up the grading period, UIL academics and athletics were in full gear, and HHS was representing itself well in different ways.  Here is a picture of the HHS JV cheerleaders leading the Murchison Writing Camp in a few cheers to pump them up for this week's exams.  The HHS drumline joined them soon afterwards.  The energy in the room was pretty intense, but enjoyable.

Cinema du Cannes is a project that involves high school students in Pflugerville ISD in the film industry.  Students have the opportunity to script, record, edit, and produce original films.  Here are some PISD students (including several Hawks) answering questions regarding the work they've been a part of.  The most valuable thing about this process is seeing how Executive Producer/Teacher Belva Sheport has helped HHS students find hidden talents through this project.

HHS is VICTORIOUS @ UIL District Meet

On Saturday. March 24, the HHS UIL Academic team became the District 16-4A Sweepstakes Champions.  We won countless team and individual awards. All 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place students will advance to Regional competition, as well as all members of a first place team.

Please join me in congratulating the following students and their coaches.

Number Sense-Coach T.J.  Johnson
1st place team
Chris Obermier-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Eric Po-3rd Place (Advancing to Region)
Dung Nguyen-tied for 5th place (Advancing to Region)
Carlos Castillo (Advancing to Region)

Calculator Applications-Coach T.J. Johnson
1st place team
Dung Nguyen- 1st place (Advancing to Region)
Helen Kruse-3rd place (Advancing to Region)
Ravi Singh-5th place (Advancing to Region)
Carlos Castillo-6th place (Advancing to Region)

Mathematics-Coach T.J. Johnson
1st place team
Chris Obermeir-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Katy Herrick 2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Eric Po-5th place (Advancing to Region)
Peter Wood-6th place (Advancing to Region)

Current Issues-Coach Kirsten Nash
1st place team
Chris Davis-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Adrian Chavez-3rd place (Advancing to Region)
Tyler Eldredge-4th place (Advancing to Region)
Maggie Solice-5th place (Advancing to Region)

Computer Applications-Coach Dayne Otto
Claudia Rosa-4th place (Alternate to Region)

Accounting-Coach Gail Hassell
1st place team
Hunter Wynn- 1st place (Advancing to Region)
Saima Shaikh 2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Alex Blair- 6th place (Advancing to Region)
Eric Po (Advancing to Region)

Science-Coach Ryan Kubicek
Garrett Hoover-4th place
Peter Wood-5th place
Garrett Hoover-1st place Chemistry (Advancing to Region)

Computer Science-Coach Ryan Kubicek
Julian Strickland0 4th place (Alternate to Region)

Ready Writing-Coach Kari Riemer
Madie Leon-6th place

Speech-1st place team
Prose--Coach Mike Fisher & Nicole Malone
Janie Townsend-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Justin Mendoza-5th place

Poetry-Coach Mike Fisher & Nicole Malone
Lawrence West-2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Elle Williams-3rd place (Alternate to Region)

Informative-Coach Kirsten Nash & Haley Honey
Lindsay Butler 1st place (Advancing to Region)
Emily Etnyre-2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Nicki Falaschi-3rd place ( (Advancing to Region)

Persuasive-Coach Kirsten Nash & Haley Honey
Avery Logan-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Zoi Thompson-2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Naomi Niyah-4th place (Alternate to Region)
Brooke Marvets (Alternate to Region)

Spelling and Vocabulary-Coach Micah Brassfleld
2nd place team
Shelby Smith-6th place
Team members: Courtney Kuehner, Katelyn Patterson, Amanda Spradlin, Shelby Smith

Journalism-Coach Kari Riemer
1st place team

News Writing
An Phung- 2nd place (Advancing to Region)
Nyssa Kruse-3rd place (Advancing to Region)

Editorial Writing
An Phung-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Nyssa Kruse-4th place (Alternate to Region)

Headline Writing
Madie Leon-1st place (Advancing to Region)
Nyssa Kruse-3rd place (Advancing to Region)

Social Studies-Coach Tom Lucas
1st place team
Adrian Chavez-1st place
Ravi Singh-2nd place
Hector Flores-3rd place
Chris Davis-4th place

UIL Speech/Debate and Color Guard Dominates!

Congratulations to HHS Junior Andrew Barron and Senior Maggie Solice for winning UIL State Cross Examination Speech/Debate.  This is an amazing accomplishment for these students and HHS.  Additionally, Travis Tiffany and Peter Wood made it to Quarterfinals.  Andrew Barron was named the 4th place speaker for the tournament and Peter Wood was named to 5th place.

Sponsor Kirsten Nash, Junior Andrew Barron, Senior Maggie Solice, and Consultant Nathan DuPont

Our up and coming Color Guard took 2nd at a highly competitive color guard competition.  Congratulations to sponsor David Duffy and the talented students involved in this program.  The time, sweat, and effort involved resulted in a favorable outcome.

Color Guard getting ready to take the floor...

A video of their performance through this link....

Hendrickson Dance Named Grand Champion

The Silver Dancers attended Vista Ridge Dance Championship on March 3rd. They received the following awards this Saturday at competition...

 

Vista Ridge Dance Championship

Officer Jazz- 2nd place

Super Sweepstakes Team

Team Contemporary- 1st place

Team Hip Hop- 1st place

Team Lyrical- 1st place

Grand Champion (highest scoring high school team)

Brooke Luna, Shaylyn Svoboda, and Hope Tate all received Division 1 ratings on their solos

Hope Tate made solo finals and placed 3rd overall in the 9th/10th grade category

 

We are very proud of their hardwork!!

 

BPA Score Weekend Triumph

This weekend all three PISD high schools competed at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference in Dallas. This year HHS had THREE students qualify for the National Leadership Conference in Chicago, Illinois on April 25th-29th. 

 

Emily Hannon (11th Grade HHS) - National Qualifier, Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications

Nicole Onyango (9th Grade HHS) - National Qualifier, Banking & Finance

Hunter Wynn (11th Grade HHS) - National Qualifier, Payroll Accounting

Not Pictured: Alex Cramer (10th Grade HHS) - National Alternate, Digital Media Production

Scenes from the 1st Week of March @ HHS



 A packed house watches the HHS Black History Month Program.  Kudos to Ms. Rose and her students for sponsoring this important event for Hendrickson students.  Check out this link for more details.






Passing Period






Late Night Library is offered Thursdays to provide a study hall-like environment to get help on work or just get it done.  So many students are taking advantage that it has resulted in a full library and additional classroom for the past few weeks.  That's a good thing!

 




Senior Madie Leon reviewing the layout on some upcoming yearbook pages.  Have you ordered yours yet?  Go to smart-pay.com to order one of the best HHS yearbooks yet.

Hawks at Texas Forensics State Tournament

Hendrickson students competed in Amarillo this past weekend.  Out of all the speech/debate teams, HHS took home 10th place sweepstakes.  Lindsey Butler was 2nd in state in her event, MacKenzie Dobbs 4th, and Lawrence West brought home 8th place.  Congatulations to all of our students for making it this far.










Lindsey Butler and Speech/Debate Sponsor Kirsten Nash



Lindsey Butler - 2nd Place, Domestic Extemp; 11th Place, Congressional Debate

Mackenzie Dobbs - 4th Place, Dramatic Interpretation

Lawrence West - 8th Place, Dramatic Interpretation

Janie Townsend & Justin Mendoza - Semifinals, Duet Acting

Ben Singer - Semifinals, Prose Interpretation

Whitney Woodward - Semifinals, Senate

Maggie Solice & Andrew Barron - Double Octafinals, CX Debate

Andrew Barron - 11th Speaker in CX (out of 125 teams...250 students!)

HHS Students at the TAME Math and Science Competition

At the Texas Association of Minorities in Engineering (TAME) Capital Area Math & Science Competition that took place on Saturday February 25th, the following Hendrickson High School students placed at the competition:
 

Nancy Kha, 1^st Place Calclulus, 1^st Place Anatomy & Physiology

 Jenna Weiss, 2^nd Place Calculus, 2^nd Place AP Physics

Chukwuemeka Osuji, 3^rd Place Calculus, 3^rd Place AP Physics

 Eric Po, 1^st Place Statistics, 2^nd Place Physics, 3^rd Place Team Design Challenge

Zoi Thompson, 1^st Place Physics

Brian Beteta, 3^rd Place Physics

 Matthew Gaddy, 1^st Place AP Physics

Gustavo Corral, 2^nd Place High School Geometry, 2^nd Place Team Design Challenge

Congrats to all these students for representing HHS so well.