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Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Daily Announcements

Congratulations to the following students who are being honored as the Top Ten Library Patrons at the Heritage Media Center for the 2022 – 2023 school year. These students have checked out between 28 and 85 books this year. What great readers!

Carmen Campos Audor

Devin Davis

Gaige Eaken

Talia Elliott

Ahmed Farrah

Xavier Guzman

Natalee Myers

Sofia Sunseri

Ash Walters

Brooke Yarwick

SPORTS: 

Cheerleading: If you are interested in trying out for cheerleading (football or basketball) at Heritage next year, please scan the QR codes that are hanging up around the building. We will have an informational meeting about summer conditioning and tryouts next Tuesday, May 23^rd at 6pm in room 204 at Heritage. See Coach K in room 204 if you have any questions!

Attention 8^th Grade Boys Cross Country Athletes:  There will be an informational meeting for the Darby HS program on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:45 PM. Please walk across the parking lot after school. The meeting will be held in room 200 upstairs at Darby HS. Meeting will last 35-40 minutes. Please plan for your ride. At the meeting we will handout summer training information and fall schedules / practice calendar.

Genius Bar Applications Available for 2023-2024 School Year:  Attention 7^th 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.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month:  The largest groups of Asian Americans have ancestors from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Korea, or Japan. Many other Asian Americans have ancestors from Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan, or Thailand.  In 1959, Hiram L. Fong, who was born in Honolulu and the son of poor Chinese immigrants, was sworn in as Hawaii’s first Asian U.S. Senator. On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first female, first Black, and first Asian American vice president of the United States. As a former U.S. senator from California, she is the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father.  The Media Center has two of her biographies, Kamala Harris by Erinn Banting and the e-book, Kamala Harris, Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes.

Upcoming Dates:

• 5/24 – iPad Collection (8th Grade)
• 5/25 – iPad Collection (7th Grade)
• 5/25 – 8th Grade Field Day
• 5/26 – HMS Talent Show
• 5/26 – 8th Grade Clap Out
• 5/26 – LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Daily Announcements

Come out and support the hard work from our Music Department this week:

Band: Wednesday, May 16^th, 6pm HMS Main Gym

Choir: Friday, May 19^th 6pm HMS Cafeteria

SPORTS: 

Cheerleading: If you are interested in trying out for cheerleading (football or basketball) at Heritage next year, please scan the QR codes that are hanging up around the building. We will have an informational meeting about summer conditioning and tryouts next Tuesday, May 23^rd at 6pm in room 204 at Heritage. See Coach K in room 204 if you have any questions!

Attention 8^th Grade Boys Cross Country Athletes. There will be an informational meeting for the Darby HS program on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:45 PM. Please walk across the parking lot after school. The meeting will be held in room 200 upstairs at Darby HS. Meeting will last 35-40 minutes. Please plan for your ride. At the meeting we will handout summer training information and fall schedules / practice calendar.

Freshman Football: The parent meeting for Freshman football players  is  re-scheduled for  Monday, May 22^nd at 6:00 PM at Darby HS. Please plan on attending if your son is playing freshman football.

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.

UPCOMING Events:

• 5/17 – Band Concert – 6PM – HMS Gym
• 5/19 – Choir Concert – 6PM – HMS Cafeteria
• 5/24 – iPad Collection (8th Grade)
• 5/25 – iPad Collection (7th Grade)
• 5/25 – 8th Grade Field Day
• 5/26 – LAST DAY OF SCHOOL/ Talent Show/ Clap out

Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Daily Announcements

Come out and support the hard work from our Music Department this week:

Orchestra: Tuesday, May 16^th, 6pm at Station

Band: Wednesday, May 16^th, 6pm HMS Main Gym

Choir: Friday, May 19^th 6pm HMS Cafeteria

SPORTS:  

Attention 8^th Grade Boys Cross Country Athletes. There will be an informational meeting for the Darby HS program on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:45 PM. Please walk across the parking lot after school. The meeting will be held in room 200 upstairs at Darby HS. Meeting will last 35-40 minutes. Please plan for your ride. At the meeting we will handout summer training information and fall schedules / practice calendar.

Freshman Football:  The parent meeting for Freshman football players  is  re-scheduled for  Monday, May 22^nd at 6:00 PM at Darby HS. Please plan on attending if your son is playing freshman football.

Baseball:  7th grade baseball split the double header last night to end their season. Bryson Deam pitched a complete game and had multiple hits in a 5-4 win against Hastings.

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.

UPCOMING Events:

• 5/17 – Band Concert – 6PM – HMS Main Gym
• 5/19 – Choir Concert – 6PM – HMS Cafeteria
• 5/24 – iPad Collection (8th Grade)
• 5/25 – iPad Collection (7th Grade)
• 5/25 – 8th Grade Field Day
• 5/26 – LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
• 5/26 – HMS Talent Show
• 5/26 – 8th Grade Clap Out

Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Daily Announcements

Genius Bar Applications Available for 2023-2024 School Year:  Attention all 7^th 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 6^th in DIII Red bracket and took 3^rd 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 7^th 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 16^th, 6pm at Station

Band: Wednesday, May 16^th, 6pm HMS Main Gym

Choir: Friday, May 19^th 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.