North Hills Celebrates
Homecoming 2016
C
ongratulations to 2016 Homecoming Queen Hannah
Brennfleck! Her court included Brianna Baumgartner (first
runner-up; middle) and Heather Lewandowski (second
runner-up; left).Thanks to Scott Studio for sharing this great shot.
North Hills Seniors
Recognized in
National Merit
Scholarship Program
N
orth Hills High School seniors Kristen Collins, Eric
Crownover, Alec Duquette, Madeline Evans, William
Huffmyer, Kaitlyn Kurz, Nathaniel Salopek and Hannah
Schilpp have been named 2017 National Merit Scholarship
Program Commended Students.
They are among only 34,000 Commended Students throughout
the nation to be recognized with this academic accolade for their
exceptional academic promise. Commended Students scored
in the top 5 percent of entrants of the 1.6 million students who
entered the 2017 competition.
The National Merit program is an academic competition for
recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school
students enter the National Merit Program by taking the
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test – a
test which serves as an initial screening of approximately 1.6
million juniors in 22,000 high schools each year – and by meeting
published program entry/participation requirements.
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N OR TH HI L L S SC HOOL DI STRI C T N E WS
N
orth Hills Middle School eighth-graders celebrated
Constitution Day with a novel BreakoutEDU
activity that combined popular escape rooms,
iPads, American presidents and primary source historical
documents.
Students were told that a president wants to create
their own version of American history by getting rid of all
primary source documents. The secret to saving the nation
and stopping the president from abusing their power was
locked in a heavy, wooden box secured by five locks. Only
they could save the nation by using their communication,
collaboration, critical thinking and creativity skills to open
the box and release its answer before time expired.
Students worked together to decipher clues from various
primary source documents used by teacher Joe Welch
throughout the year from TeachingAmericanHistory.org/
Ashbrook’s 50 Core Documents, Our Documents, Library
of Congress, National Archives, Gilder Lehrman, and the
Smithsonian Learning Lab.
Once they worked out solutions and unlocked each lock,
the students found the answer they needed to save the
nation from ruin – The Constitution.
Nor th Hills School District
BreakoutEDU Game
Combines History
with Popular Escape
Room Concepts