Hendrickson's Strong Journalism Department Honored

This past weekend, journalism students attended UIL’s Interscholastic League Press Conference.  At this conference, student publications are rated and ranked, as well as student pieces (work published in the last year) being judged individually

The Hawk Newspaper was rated the Award of Distinguished Merit.  This is the highest rating in the conference.  It was also nominated for a Star Award, which is given to the top 10% of school newspapers it the state, but unfortunately fell short of that award this year.

For Newspaper, the following students won individual achievements:

Photo Story—An Phung—Honorable Mention (5th place)

In-Depth News/Feature Package—An Phung, Tyler Eldredge, Keely Clarkson –Honorable Mention (5^th place)

Computer Art—An Phung—Honorable Mention (6^th place)

Editorial Cartoon—Janie Townsend—Honorable Mention (6^th place)

General News Photo—Blake Borgholtaus—Honorable Mention (4^th place)

Sports Action Photo—Madie Leon—Honorable Mention ( 6^th place)

Captions—Keely Clarkson—3^rd place

Headines—Justin Mendoza, An Phung, Keely Clarkson, Lindsay Skelton—Honorable Mention—6^th place

The 2011 Talon yearbook also was rated Award of Distinguished Merit

For Yearbook the following students won individual achievements:

Headlines—Shyla Guthrie—Honorable Mention (5^th place)

Index Spread—Kate Daniel—Honorable Mention (5^th place)

Portrait—Madie Leon—2^nd place

Additionally, they hold a competition on current year yearbook, where we submit a completed spread for the 2012 yearbook before it is published.

Academic Spread—Max Dalton, Madie Leon—Honorable Mention (4^th place)

Club Spread—Madie Leon, Emily Hannon, Charlotte Intansari—1^st place.

Marine Junior ROTC Awards Night

The Hendrickson MJROTC hosted an awards night on Thursday to honor the work of the outstanding cadets in one of the largest ROTC programs in the state.  Below is a listing of the award recipients.  Congratulations to the cadets, Lt. Col. Weston, and 1st Sgt. Amadis for their work this year.

(Multi-cadet Awards…USMC sponsored)

Physical Achievement:  Taylor Smith, Ja'Bria Walker 

Marksmanship: - Hunter Blackson, Jaimie Shepard-

Best Drill Cadet: Kyle Lusk

Honor Company:  1^st Period (Company A) / Cameron Lusk is Company Commander

(Individual Awards…Association  sponsored)

- American Legion, Military Excellence - (Medal)………..…..Taylor Smith

- American Legion, Scholastic Excellence - (Medal).........……Rio Modequillo

- Daughter of American Revolution - (Medal)………………...Kasia Cano

- Woman Marine - (Ribbon)………………………………..…..Karen Cisneros

- Non Commissioned Officer’s Association - (Medal)…….…..Michael Cantu 

                                                                                                       Chad Gouge

- Purple Heart - (Medal)…………………………………….….Cody Gray

- Navy League - (Medal)……………………………………...…Trevor Kahlbau

- Reserve Officer’s Association - (Medal)………………….…..Darren Bush

- Scottish Rite - (Medal)…………………………………….…..Cordell Bunch

- National Sojourners - (Medal)…………………………...……Patrick Fischer  

- Daughters of 1812 - (Medal)……………………………….….Andrea Threlkeld

- US Army - (Certificate)……………………………………..….Hunter Varady 

                                                                                                        Rio Modequillo

- MC Association - (Plaque)…………………………………..…Jaimie Shepperd

- MC League Scholarship - ($1,000.00 Scholarship)…………...Larontae Shelton 

      

(HHS MCJROTC sponsored)

- Outstanding Courage - (Plaque)………………………………. Hunter Blackston

Spring Athletics Updates

Baseball:  The baseball team has claimed its third consecutive district championship.  We will begin the playoffs next Friday, May 4 against  Ennis or Red Oak.

Softball:  Congratulations to HHS Softball players and Coaches Harrigan, Roberson, Erskine, and Wozniak for a great season.  The playoffs begin at the Waco ISD Sports Complex, on the White Field.  The first game will be Friday, 4/27 at 7:30 PM; the second game will be Saturday, 4/28 at 4:00 PM and if needed the third game will be Saturday, 4/28 at 6:00 PM.

Golf:  In one of the most competitive regions in the state, the girls golf team finished in Fifth Place out of sixteen teams. Tops scorers on the team were Ashley Garbade and Hannah Stacey.

Ashley also finished in the top ten out of 96 golfers. The boys team finished in twelfth place. Top scorers for the boys were Blake Kuempel and Carter Brown.

Regional Track Qualifiers:

Boys

Matt Baca--3200

Aaron Betschart--1600, 3200

Datrick Edwards--Shot Put, Discus

Hector Flores--1600

Brandon Kirby--400, 800

Derwood Kirby--400

Ronnie Mitchell--300 Hurdles

Jonathan Paez--110 Hurdles

Devin Smith--Triple Jump

Jose Viegra--800

Ron Williams--300 Hurdles

Girls

Brown, Kayla - 11th grade - 800, 4x400

Buckner, Cameo - 12th grade - 4x400

Burgess, Sydney- 9th grade- 4x200

Mars, Meagan- 10th grade- 400, 4x200, 4x400

Martin, Kiana- 9th grade - 4x200

Martin, Kristen- 10th grade- 1600, 3200

Mbanasor, Jennifer- 12th grade - 100, 4x400

Spears, Essence- 10th grade- 4x200

 March, Miesha- 9th grade - 4x200

Nunez, Kennedy- 9th grade 4x200

Taylor, Alicia- 9th grade 4x400

Matus, Kathryn- 9th grade 4x400

HHS UIL Academics Season Ends at Denton Regionals

This past weekend 31 members of the UIL team traveled to Denton, Texas to compete in Regional competition, one of the most competitive regions in the state.  Please join me in congratulating the following students and their coaches:

2nd place Current Events Team--Alternate to State
Coached by Kirsten Nash
Adrian Chavez (6th place individual)
Chris Davis
Tyler Eldredge
Maggie Solice

Prose Interp--Coached by Mike Fisher
Janie Townsend, 4th place (Alternate to State)

Headline Writing-Coached by Kari Riemer
Madie Leon--4th place (Alternate to State)

Informative Speaking Coached by Kirsten Nash & Haley Honey
Lindsay Butler, 6th place

Persuasive Speaking Coached by Kirsten Nash & Haley Honey
Avery Logan

Thanks and congrats to all our great UIL Academic Competitors and their hard-working coaches.

Scenes from the End of April at HHS

The HHS PALS hosted a Prom for students in our Essential Academics Classes

HHS Speech/Debate was honored by the Board of Trustees for their strong achievements this year.

HHS Students visit the R.E.A.L. World

R.E.A.L. World Pflugerville is PISD's job shadow program which allows students to see first hand what goes on in the workplace.   R.E.A.L. is an acronym for relevant experiences achieve learning. 

 

The goal is for students to spend time with a worker in their field of interest, gain working knowledge of a business, get an idea of the skills required in the world of work and find out the academic preparation necessary to pursue a particular career.  Job Shadowing also helps students see how their work in the classroom relates to job success.   

 

52 CTE students from HHS  were selected to participate with Pflugerville and Austin area businesses.  Students worked side by side with managers, owners and employees to learn the day to day structure, operations and goals of businesses and industries. Businesses participating with us this year were PISD Finance, A+ Federal Credit, Aramark Food Services, Target, National Instruments, Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce, The Flower Child, Outback, Game Salad, Walgreens, First State Bank and McDonald's. 

HHS Cheer Donates to Pflugerville Storehouse

The Hendrickson Hawk Cheerleaders presented a check for $750 to the Pflugerville Storehouse Food Ministry. The funds were raised through the Second Annual Tiara 5K, a cheer team fundraiser, held on March 3, 2012. The Storehouse can always use volunteers and donations of 16 ounce canned foods, beans, rice, and peanut butter.

Varsity Choir Earns Sweepstakes

Congrats to the HHS Choir, led by Kay Payton, for their first Sweepstakes Award.

Texas Association of Minorities in Engineering (TAME)

6 students represented Hendrickson at the State TAME Math and Science Competition on Saturday in College Station.  Three students received recognition for their performance on math and science tests.

 

Nancy Kha: 1st in Anatomy and Physiology

Matthew Gaddy - 5th in Precal and 2nd in AP Physics

Eric Po: 3rd in Physics and 1st in Statistics

 

In the Team Design competition, Eric was a team member receiving the Judge's Choice Award, and Jenna Weiss was a member of the 5th place team.

Scenes from the Past Week (04.13.12)

Senior Ashley Elicerio Signed her Softball Scholarship as well as Golf's Ashley Garbade

HHS Girls won a Trip to Regionals where as Runner-Up after a 5-0 Defeat of Pleasanton and 2-1 loss to Cedar Park.

Hendrickson's Jessica Reyna was Notified of Her Selection as Basktetball Academic All-State

HHS Hosted a Diversity Talent Show Featuring Many Cultures on Thursday During the Day

Family, Career, and Community Leaders (FCCLA) at HHS

This past weekend Hendrickson High School competed at the State FCCLA meeting in Dallas.   The following students did a great job representing our school, and Angela Angold will be the first HHS student to advance to Nationals in July.

 

Saima Shaikh - Consumer Math Gold Medal

Dominique Walker - Job Interview Gold Medal

Taylor Patterson - Job Interview Gold Medal

Reyna Martinez-Sanchez - Job Interview Silver Medal

Jordan Phillips - Etiquette Gold Medal

Katie McCoy - Etiquette Silver Medal

Dominique Wilcoxon - Etiquette Silver Medal

Angela Angold - Teach and Train 2nd Place State - National Qualifier

Tess Light & Kristen Torres - Life Event Planning

HHS FFA Going to State

This past Saturday, HHS FFA Competed in the Area 7 Career Development Event Contest at Texas A&M University.  We had teams competing in the Nursery/Landscape, Floriculture and Livestock Judging Contests.  Our Nursery/Landscape team placed 5th and will be advancing to the State Career Development Event at SHSU on May 4th! 

 

Nursery/Landscape

Allison Hodde - 10th Place Individual

Lorrie Abels

John Rolater

Paul Arculeo

 

Floriculture

Savannah Marvets

Kayse Kelley

 

Livestock

Ryan Fritz

Kristin Griffin

Ellerie Jackson

Megan Nellis  

 

Welding (ACC)

Paul Arculeo

Kasey Lopez

A+ Federal Credit Union Comes to HHS: Fall 2012

We're very excited to see A+ FCU join Hendrickson by opening a branch in our building.  In addition to providing students and parents in our community with a close banking option, we'll provide banking and finance learning opportunities for our students.  Additionally, new members of A+FCU in Fall of 2012 will get a Hendrickson Hawk Visa Debit card if they choose.  A percentage of those swipes will benefit the campus, giving parents an easy way to support their school.

Please view this link for the press release from A+.

Science Olympiad Season Ends w/State Appearance

Out of 23 events the team earned medals in 7 this past weekend in College Station at the state tournament. The team placed 12th out of the 30 teams that were competing.
　　
1st place and State Champions in Towers
Anton Nguyen and Colton D'Ambra
　
2nd Place
We Got Your Number - Colton D'Ambra and Peter Wood
　
3rd Place
Helicopters- Olivia Kean and David Resendez
Sounds of Music- Kennedy Hudgins and David Brown
Optics - Anton Nguyen and Matt Claridge
　
4th place
Remote Sensing - Naomi Niyah and Colton D'Ambra
Gravity Vehicle - David Brown and Colton D'Ambra

Tuesday Night Lights

A victorious Tuesday night for the Hawk.  HHS swept all sports (baseball, softball, boys soccer, and girls soccer. It was a great night to be a Hawk as we defeated Connally, Hutto, Cedar Park, and Vandegrift (respectively).  Hawk Soccer advances to the 3rd round of the State Playoffs.

HHS OAP Goes to Area!

HHS One Act Play advanced to the area contest. Mackenzie Dobbs won best actress, with Janie Townsend and Taylor Gamble earning all star cast and Claudia Dawson tony Nguyen and Kiersta Hoover getting Honorable Mention All Star Cast. We also took best tech crew and Nate Cummins won all star technician.

Hawk Colorguard: State Champs

Saturday The Hendrickson High School Winterguard competed in the Texas Colorguard Championships (TCGC) in Houston, Texas.

The Hawk Colorguard won the first ever State Championship Banner and Trophy in Scholastic A Red. The colorguard was in the top 3 all season, but finished with their best performance at the state championships winning 1st place.  

Congratulations to the students in the Winterguard and their instructor, Mr. David Duffy, for a fantastic season.

Golf Advances

HHS Boys Varsity finished in 2nd place at the District 16-4A Golf Tournament held Monday and Tuesday at Star Ranch and Forest Creek.   The team played exceptionally well and scored their highest scores as a team this year.   As District Runner-Ups, they will advance to the Regional tournament in Ft Worth April 16-17th. All district players were Blake Kuempel, Kendall Mire and Carter Brown.

HHS Girls Varsity finished in First Place at District Tournament.  All-District Honors go out to Ashley Garbade, Hannah Stacey,  Jayme Prinz. and Natalie Roe. Honorable Mention Honors to Mallory Lovett. As  District 164A Champs, they will advance to the regional tournament on April 18-19 at Mansfield National Golf Course.

HHS Speech/Debate Make Nationals

Please join me in congratulating members of the HHS Speech/Debate team who competed at the National Forensic League national qualifying meet this past weekend.  The following students beat out some of the most competitive teams/students in the state to qualify to represent Texas at the NFL National tournament in Indianapolis in June:

Andrew Barron / Maggie Solice - Policy Debate

Javid Aboii - Congressional Debate (House)

Janie Townsend - Dramatic Interpretation

Javid is the first freshman from our school to ever qualify for Nationals - in one of the most challenging congressional qualifying tournaments in the nation!  Additionally, please extend a congratulations to the following students who, though not qualifying for nationals, were very successful at the tournament:

Matt Meredith / Weston Hartzell - 2nd Alternate, Policy Debate

Lindsey Butler - 1st Alternate, Congressional Debate (Senate)

Emily Etnyre - 2nd Alternate, Domestic Extemp

Avery Logan - 3rd Alternate, Domestic Extemp

Nicky Falaschi - 2nd Alternate, Foreign Extemp

Check out this video featuring a HAWK: 
http://www.uiltexas.org/leaguer

How many ALLSTATE band students at HHS?

7 allstate band students.  This would be the top 1% of music students in texas.  Hendrickson had the most allstaters of any 4A high school band.

They were..

Ellison Jennings, 2nd chair English Horn

David Brown, 2nd chair Bari Saxophone

Lisa Saba, 1st chair Bassoon

Joseph Morrow, 9th chair Trumpet

Chelsea Rusch, 5th chair French Horn (2 year allstater)

Carlos Castillo, 1st chair Trombone

Miguel Perez, 1st chair Percussion (2 year allstater)

Athletic Achievements for April

Congrats to the HHS golf teams for completing their regular season. Results from the last two tournaments:

Boys: Texas Independence Day tourney:1st place

Brenham Tourney: 3rd place: Top overall score: Carter Brown:74

Girls: Texas Independence Day: 2nd Place

Viper classic: 9th place.

District tournament is April 2 -5

Boys and Girls Soccer were victorious in the 1st round of the playoffs.  Boys take on Cedar Park at HAWK STADIUM on Tuesday at 7:00 PM.  The girls battle Vandegrift at Gupton Stadium on Tuesday as well, but at 6:00 PM.

Also, HHS Softball player Ashley Elicerio notched a stellar achievement during Saturday's victory by pitching a perfect game.  For those of us not versed in baseball/softball lingo, that's getting all batters out with no walks, no hits, no runs, and no errors.  Congrats to Ashley and the HHS Softball team.

McMurry University Signee for Cross Country

Congrats to Hector Flores, signing with Division II McMurry this past week.  Hector is pictured here with his coaches and family.