Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Daily Announcements
Genius Bar Applications Available for 2023-2024 School Year: Attention all 7th graders: Would you like to work as a Genius Bar student for next year in the Media Center? Applications are available in the Media Center by the Genius Bar information display. This is a semester course that you can substitute for one of your electives. The application form has information about the position/course. See Ms. Best with any questions.
SPORTS:
Volleyball: The Panthers took down Weaver in the OCC middle school tournament 2-0. Great support from the HS team and community. Panthers finished 19-1 avenging their only loss in the title game. Thank you to everyone who came out to support!
Lacrosse: The boys Lacrosse team competed in the MS State Championship over the weekend. We were ranked 6th in DIII Red bracket and took 3rd place. We won against #3 seed Anthony Wayne 8-5 and lost to #2 seed St Paul 15-5 on Saturday. Sunday the boys fought back from being down 8-2 against the #1 seeded Kings at half time and won the game 13-12. This was truly a great way to finish the season. Boys fought hard, played as a team and never gave up.
Track: Congratulations to the Boys 4x200m Relay who finished 7th in the State on Saturday! Great job Lance Davis, Kohen Kornegay, SaRon Stewart, and Josh Bowzer!
Football: There will be a mandatory parent meeting for incoming Freshman Football parents on May 15th. The meeting will take place in the commons at Darby High School at 6:00 PM.
Come out and support the hard work from our Music Department this week:
Orchestra: Tuesday, May 16th, 6pm at Station
Band: Wednesday, May 16th, 6pm HMS Main Gym
Choir: Friday, May 19th 6pm HMS Cafeteria
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Two books in the Media Center that are memoirs written by Japanese Americans are Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese-American Experience during and after the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. In the first book, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston who was born in California was seven years old when her family was forced into the Manzanar internment camp near the Sierra Nevada mountains in Nevada, along with more than 11,000 other Japanese Americans. The memoir describes the Wakatsuki family’s strategies for surviving internment and the harmful effects it had on their family. The second book describes the life of Star Trek celebrity George Takei’s firsthand account as a young boy living in a Japanese internment camp in the United States behind barbed wire. This graphic novel describes the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
