A good time was had by all on Wednesday as 54 excited students graduated from Hope Street Academy. Ceremonies started at 10:00am to a packed gymnasium. Among the speakers were USD 501 Superintendent, Dr. Kevin Singer; School Board President Peg McCarthy; student speaker Kristina Keim; and Hope Street Academy Principal Dale Noll.

Students receiving awards were: Macario "Mico" Gonzales, the Dale M. Dennis Excellence in Education Award; Kristina Keim, the Superintendent Award; Aeriell Martinez, the KATS Award; and, Dale Mitchell, the Distinbguished Citizenship Award.

Everyone enjoyed a lunch of barbequed hamburgers and hot dogs provided by Hope Street Academy to end a successful commencement.

High School Commencement, Wednesday, May 13, 10:00am

Last Day of School, Tuesday, May 19. School will be dismissed at 11:39am. Lunch will not be served.

Students and staff members at Hope Street Academy have been working on a wind turbine proposal called Wind for Schools Program.

The program strives to help school districts install 1.9-kW wind turbines for use in education, and to encourage incorporation of renewable energy education into the K-12 science curriculum. 

The students helped make a brochure that they took out door-to-door in the neighborhood to gain support signatures. They wrote letters of support, made support videos, wrote narrations, and came up with some cross-curricular lesson plan ideas.

http://www.eece.ksu.edu/psg/wac/
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/
http://www.skystreamenergy.com/
http://www.need.org/

The Entrepreneurship class has associated itself with international telementor program. This program facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide and is recognized as the leader in the field of academic-based mentoring.

ITP has assisted youth here at HAS in realizing their dreams of the future-in the present. Our students at HSA have learned how to explore a unique career field specifically, and created a solid career and education plan. This was done by confirmation from top professionals.

On Wednesday, February 4, World History students from Hope Street, accompanied by Mr. Fulbright and Mr. Brayton, traveled to Kansas City to tour the National World War 1 Museum at Liberty Memorial, The American Jazz Museum and The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. The field trip was in conjunction with projects being done in the classroom.

In an effort to encourage American high school students to stay in school and to increase their competitiveness with counterparts from other countries, AT&T Inc. and Junior Achievement conducted a job shadowing session on November 12. Thirty students from Hope Street Academy joined forces with AT&T employees for the event.

With 1.2 million American students dropping out of high school every year, initiatives such as the AT&T/JA Worldwide Job Shadow teach students about careers and help them see firsthand the educational background and skills they will need to succeed on the job.

On September 3, 2008, Hope Street Academy students Katy Fry and Alexis Sauliner along with instructor Shely Shade interviewed SSgt. Sarah Mendez, SSgt Crystal Crews, TSgt Joseph Ullmer and SSgt Michael Tremblay. They discussed their recent missions to Iraq and their military careers.

The Parent Child Learning Center (PCLC) staff and students are thrilled to be a part of the Hope street Academy website. This is an excellent way to inform the community about this unique program offered at Hope Street as well as to let you share in student activities and classroom interventions.

More information on PCLC here

PCLC Openings Are Now Available for the 2008-2009 year!!!
Contact Mrs Cain, PCLC Director at 438-4295