• Information sources about our School and IB program
• Communication links between HHS IB Staff, Parents and Students.

Semester 2 Exam Bell Schedule

Please click here to view the Semester 2 Exam Bell Schedule - June 2013.

Biology EOC - Congrats to the class of 2016!

I am happy to announce that the IB Class of 2016 had a 100% pass rate for the Biology EOC!!!

Congrats to their hard work!!!

Early Release Days and Summer School Info

Early Release Days

Graduation Day 5/30/13

HHS-Early Release @ 11:40am (all students)

Final Exam Week

6/3 - 2:00pm

6/4 - 11:45am

6/5 - 11:45am

6/6 - 11:45am

6/7 - 9:35am - Traditional

6/7 - 11:45am - IB

Summer School Info

Summer Immersion FLyer

Summer School FLyer

ESY Registration form

Exam Schedule and EOC Review

Semester 2 Exams June 2013

Algebra 1 EOC Review Flyer - For Incoming 9th Graders

AP Testing Information 2013

Dear Parents,

AP testing will begin on Monday, May 6th. I have attached a newsletter and other information for your reference. The May 2013 IB AP Exam Calendar is for IB seniors only, while the May 2013 AP Exam Calendar is for underclassmen. Students received the letter outlining expectations. They must report to school by 7:30am for morning exams and by 11:30am for afternoon exams. There are no makeup exams if students miss their AP exam. Students who miss an exam must pay a fee for missing each exam, given the district pays $89 per exam for students to test. New this year...students will receive scores online and will not get a paper report in the mail. An instruction sheet for accessing scores is attached here.

Any student taking an AP Exam can have school business to be out of school for the remainder of the day, although transportation must be provided. Parents must sign the attached permission form and turn it in ASAP in order for your child to have school business.

It is not too late to volunteer to be an AP Proctor-- 8th grade parents are welcome too! We need your help! You can assist with monitoring students during AP exams and see what exams will be like. We definitely need assistance during the AP US History and the AP English Language exams as we have over 230 students testing in the gym during both of these sessions. The dates and times are on the AP Calendar and on the proctor website. Just go to www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/approctor to sign up. Your assistance is greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Parents and Students

AP Exam testing starts May 6th, and it is approaching quickly. Please review the attached newsletter IB Newsletter April 2013. Students will soon bring home more information, including test dates and expectations. Given we are administering over 1,800 exams, we are in great need of volunteers to assist with proctoring exams. If you are interested, see the instructions in the link below. Thank you, and have a great day!

Sincerely,

Parents can Volunteer to be an AP Proctor

Attention SENIORS!

All complete CAS paperwork must be submitted no later than April 15th (although a few homeroom teachers want forms submitted earlier so that they have time to review it before signing off on it).

Trisha Fitzgerald
Assistant Principal for Magnet Curriculum
Hillsborough High School/ IB World School #0601
(813) 276-5620
http://www.hhsib.org/

REMINDER:

We will have a mandatory IB Senior Student and Parent Meeting on Thursday, April 25th, 2013 at 5:00pm at the Ragan Center (IB Exam testing site) located at
1302 E Lake Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Debate Team Wins Big!

Please congratulate Hillsborough High's BIG RED Speech and Debate students who competed in the Florida Gulf Coast Catholic Forensic League 2013 Grand Finals at East Bay High School February 22-23, 2013. In a competition with 160 of the top Speech and Debate students from around the state of Florida, Hillsborough High School entered five events and qualified for Nationals in all five events! We look forward to supporting these Terriers as they compete at the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 25-26, 2013.

Please congratulate the following students for their achievement in advancing to the Grand Finals at East Bay High School during the weekend competition:

We wish good luck to those ten Terriers who qualified for Nationals in Philadelphia and will represent Hillsborough High School in May at this elite level of competition:

Congratulations to Daniel Hamilton!

Please congratulate Daniel Hamilton for his award at Florida High Schools Model United Nations. He represented Afghanistan in the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Daniel received the most improved delegate award. This is only his third competition.

Congratulations to Science Olympiad Students!

Hillsborough High's BIG RED Science Olympiad students competed in the 2013 regionals this weekend at HCC's Brandon Campus.

Winning first place and a gold medal in the Designer Genes event were Devan Adhia and Sumanth Potluri.

Receiving a third place bronze medal for Disease Detectives were Devan Adhia and Arpan Parekh.

Congratulations to them and all of the team members who participated in this arduous competition for the first time in Hillsborough High's history.

Model United Nations Results

The Model United Nations team was successful this weekend competing against over 450 students from all over the state at the University of Florida. Congratulate the following students for the awards they received:

Andy Paloumpis earned the top award of Best Delegate for his portrayal of Yan Xishan in the JCC: Nationalist Committee.

Elijah Kallett received the outstanding delegate award for his portrayal of Jedi Knight Jacen Solo in the Star Wars Committee.

Siree Reddy received two awards - Position Paper and Outstanding Delegate for portraying Cave Johnson in President Polk Committee.

Marayna Martinez received an Honorable Mention for portraying Pakistan in the Security Council.

Sumanth Potluri received an Honorable Mention for portraying Kuwait in the Arab League.

Rishi Parikh received the Position Paper award for portraying Pakistan in the Commission on Sustainable Development Committee.

Devan Adhia received the Position Paper award for portraying Pakistan in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Committee.

Our students at the APA convention

http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2012/11/convention-award.aspx

IB Parents,

Above is a link to an American Psychological Association newsletter with a photo of our students at the American Psychological Association Convention we attended this summer. It was an awesome experience for them to see what we discuss in class in a real professional setting. I thought you might be interested in the article.

Sincerely,

Congratulations to Alec Tyler!

Hello All,

On Saturday, IB freshman Alec Tyler represented Hillsborough High School in the 2012 Central Florida History Bee and was a member of a two person team (one representing Freedom High and Alec representing Hillsborough) in the 2012 Central Florida History Bowl.

Alec obtained the most points in the Bee and has qualified to go to the National Competition in Arlington Virginia. Last year, in 8th grade, Alec was a finalist for the History Channel's National History Bee.

Alec was also a part of the winning JV History Bowl team. They had more points than any JV and Varsity teams. Another amazing point is that they only had 2 members, while the other teams had 4 members. They also qualified for the national competition!

Alec deserves a ton of credit for a job well done!!! It was nice seeing Alec, representing Hillsborough, beating individuals and teams from Plant, Berkeley, Riverview and Shorecrest Prep to name a few schools!

Sincerely,

Attention 8th Grade Applicants!

Please click here to view the IB Flyer with writing sample.

Sincerely,

Shadowing Information 2012

Please view the Hillsborough High School IB Program Invitation for information on shadowing.

Sincerely,

Model United Nations Competition at UCF

The Model United Nations team went to UCF this past weekend and attended a competition with over 400 students.

Please congratulate the following students for their achievements during the weekend competition.

Suvetha Ravichandran received an honorable mention for representing the country of Portugal.

Elijah Kallett received an honorable mention for representing South Africa.

Chindu Mohanakumar received the position paper award for representing Afghanistan.

Debate Team Wins Big

Please congratulate the debate team members who competed at North Port on Saturday. We entered five events and placed 1st or 2nd in four. Freshmen Congresspeople had excellent results at their first ever tournament.

Results:

Duo Interpretation 1st place - Caleb Hall and Lucy Gutierrez

Original Oratory 1st place - Anna Pennington

Congress House B 1st place - Marayna Martinez

Congress House B 2nd place - Jaylexia Clark

Oral Interpretation 2nd place - Nina Phan

You're invited to IB Parent Meeting

IB Parents and Students,

This is the first IB meeting of the year. No ticket or registration required! This is an advertisement. All students and parents in all grades are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting to receive important information about academic resources, the college application process, and the IB program in general. Conference night is also scheduled for the same day from 4-8pm. Parents should contact teachers to schedule a conference. Teacher emails are listed on the IB website at www.hhsib.org. We look forward to seeing you!

Sincerely,

IB Staff

IB Parent Meeting

Thursday, September 20, 2012

from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)

Auditorium

News on HHS IB Senior

News on Jordan Sherit

Visit this link to see news on our IB Senior Jordan Sherit http://www.baynews9.com

Attention All Grades

2012-2013 Yearbooks

2013 yearbooks are now available for purchase. Visit http://www.hhstoday.com for a link to a secure online ordering site, where you can also reserve advertising pages. Books are $55 or $60 (personalized with student name and photo on the cover), with prices scheduled to increase in mid-September. Cash or checks (payable) to HHS will also be accepted at the Aug. 16 Open House or in Room 506.

SGA will offer a senior package that includes a variety of items (prom and homecoming tickets; cap and gown; etc.), and anyone purchasing that will receive their yearbook and ad at the package rate but must go through SGA to order when school begins.

Students in the Journalism program recently launched http://www.hhstoday.com as the new source for news about Hillsborough High School. Please bookmark and visit often. You may also want to "like" http://www.facebook.com/hhstoday for updates.

Senior Portraits!

Seniors will have until mid-September to take their senior portraits for inclusion in the yearbook. Appointment information was mailed directly by the photo company (Lifetouch). Questions can be directed to Lifetouch at 813-253-2693.

Sincerely,

Parents and Students,

I hope you are all enjoying your summer! I am looking forward to seeing you all again soon.

Given there was a delay by the school to set up the master schedule in the computer system, it put a major delay in allowing me to begin working on IB schedules. That being said, we worked hard since last Monday to get things done so you have the opportunity to review your preliminary schedule for any errors or changes. I am going to hold schedule sessions to give you the opportunity to meet with me for any needed changes. Priority is given to errors in the schedule, such as missing a class or having the wrong class on the schedule. It is simply not possible to honor the abundance of teacher requests that are submitted, nor does the scheduling typically allow for it. Seniors and sophomores should have received schedules in the mail, while junior schedules required more time and were mailed home today (8/2). Schedule changes are first-come first-serve and sessions will be held at HHS. Even though not all changes or requests may be possible, I will try my best to ensure everyone has the right classes on the first day of school. The schedule for the sessions is below. Any requests submitted via email will not be reviewed until after the school sessions. Please do not leave phone requests. If you are out of town, or if you are not able to come to the school, you must submit concerns or requests via email.

We will still be working to level classes and will make minor changes to the overall schedule. Students will receive the finalized schedules on the first day of school. Thank you for your understanding and support!

Sincerely,