UIL Cross Examination Debate

 

On February 9th, 1 team of Juniors and 2 teams of Freshmen competed in UIL district competition of cross examination debate.  After a day of verbal sparring they took away

 

3^rd Place – Shashank Kalanathi and Mark Knackstedt

4^th Place – Arun Yagnamurthy and Ashwin Leo

5^th Place – Alberto Him and Zanir Habib

 

Please congratulate them for an excellent debate!

 

 

  

 

Shashank Kalanathi and Mark Knackstedt, Arun Yagnamurthy and Ashwin Leo, Zanir Habib and Alberto Him

 

 

 

Go Maggie!

On January 28th, senior Maggie Munoz traveled to Houston to audition for the theatre programs of over 40 universities. The average student garners 3-5 call backs from this audition and Maggie was incredibly called back by 14 schools. Upon interviewing with the most prestigious of those 14, Maggie found out she had gained admission into three of those colleges based solely on her audition. One of those three schools was Oklahoma City University, home of the highly selective musical theatre program that Kristen Chenoweth graduated from. Maggie even received a congratulations tweet on Twitter from Kristen Chenoweth herself! Please take a minute to congratulate her on her enormous success this weekend if you see her!

 

 Congratulations Albert Aguirre & Justin Smith!

 

On Saturday, January 21st, the team of Albert Aguirre and Justin Smith competed at Plano Senior High in a Programming contest. They placed 3^rdagainst three person teams. They were the only non 5A team there! Congratulate them if you see them in the hall!

 

 

 

 NHP Had Great Success at Science Fair!

 

 

Primary Division

1^st Place : Caffeine and Heart rate; Vaani Vedula; North Hills

2^nd Place: Colors Effect on Blood Pressure; Shayda Safe; North Hills

Middle School Division – All winners moving onto Dallas Regional Fair on February 25^th

1st Place: BAT-ER’ UP; Ishaan Manohar and Naman Adenwala; North Hills

2^nd Place: Commotion in the Ocean; Sujal Manohar and Anika Vij; North Hills

High School Division – All winners moving onto Dallas Regional Fair on February 25^th or

Fort Worth Regional Fair on February 26^th-27^th

1^st Place: From Sunburn to Sterilizer!; Alexander White, Alberto Him, Ashwin Leo; North Hills

3^rd Place: The Right Bulb!; Jina Chung; North Hills

 

 

 

Our Middle School Swim Team is Unstoppable!!

A fabulous, fun meet was had the weekend before Christmaswhen 5 of our m/s swimmers represented NHP in the Christmas Classic.  Manogna swam her 1st meet and turned out 5 decent races, Johnathan swam in 6 events and had a great head-to-head with Alex in the 50 free, with them both coming 1st and 2nd in their heat and dropping alot of time in the process!  Ishan continues to gain confidence and competed well in his 4 events, Liberty clearly loves to compete, and Alex is proving practice really does make perfect. The last event was the Reindeer relay with our 5 swimmer reindeer pulling Santa along in the water - a lot of fun! This was the 2nd meet in 3 days for Liberty, Johnathan and Alex; quite a feat. Swimmer of the meet was Johnathan because he literally had 1 race straight after another and just quietly got on with it, even coming 1st in his heat of 7 boys for the 100IM, not an easy race for a new swimmer.  Next meet was at Greenhill School Thursday 12th January and soon time for Districts end of January.

         
Ishan and Liberty showing how it is done!

 

 

Congratulations to Our All-Region Band Members!

 

Congratulations to John Nam (MS), Pierce Husin (MS), and Sheila Husin (US) for representing our school at the All-Region Band Concert at Prosper High School January 13th & 14th. They represented us well. John Nam was the First Chair saxophone student in the top Symphonic Band for Middle School making him the top sax student in our region this year!!

 

 

 

Watch Out for the Primary UIL Team!

 

The primary UIL students traveled to Life School Red Oak early yesterday morning to compete in the District UIL Elementary Meet.  North Hills added up an outstanding total of 393 points, putting us in 2nd Place Overall for the day, just shy of #1 Sunnyvale’s accrued points.  Students and coaches learned a lot and are extremely proud of this accomplishment, as this was our first year competing as a primary campus in the elementary district meet.  A shout out goes to the parents for all of their support, teachers and administration for their cooperation, and the coaches for their student guidance and learning the “ropes of UIL” from the ground up.  I think we have officially memorized the UIL handbook!!

The students are our shining stars and we are so impressed with how much they practiced and studied on their own outside of practice, as well as for their behavior.  They all represented North Hills extremely well yesterday and we cannot wait to participate again next year.  The 5th graders will make a great addition to the 6th grade Middle School teams next year! 

Individual results by category are as follows:

Coach Hunt came along to the 1st meet to see what was going on and took a photo with the Boys team, Shawhin, Ishan (competed in his first competition and has a bright future ahead!), Johnathan, Pato, Alex and Wilson, relaxing in-between races.

 

Johnathan Huang and Alex Hamilton ready for their races!!

  

Gabriel Jordan (11^th) and Nicole Rojas (9^th) are headed to the State competition in Cross Country! Gabriel will be competing in the 5k and Nicole will be competing in the 2 mile. We are SO proud of our Panthers!

 

 

Boys Team

Michael Cannaday

Kevin Chiang

Brandon Hassan

Gabriel Jordan

Mark Knackstedt

Tim Krieg

John Kulik

Alternates:

Nelson Joseph

Prem Patel

Girls Team

Malak Al Dossari

Lili Byrne

Emma Cramm

Susannah Powell

Kristina Parent Brito

Pam Perez

Nicole Rojas

Alternates:

Pamela Ruz

Sarah Butler

North Hills Preparatory 8th grade volleyball team

2011 District 13 2A Champions!

Coach KraTaura Buckner

North Hills Preparatory 8^th Grade Student Selected for Olympic Development Program

Julianna Summerlin, 8^th grade, was selected for the 1997 Girls Olympic Development Program, Region III.  Summerlin, a member of NHP’s middle school soccer and volleyball teams, was one of 14 chosen to join a pool of 51 girls in the age group.
The US youth Soccer Olympic Development Program identifies elite level players and facilitates their selection to the U.S. National Team programs. The selection process takes place through state, regional and national trials. The primary benefit to the player is to be able to try out, train and play against the best players in their age group, allowing the best players to further their development as soccer players. Players are evaluated on the four components that make up a soccer player: 1. technique, 2. tactics, 3. fitness and athletic ability, and 4. psychological component (attitude).

Umang Parikh – 5^th Place, Journalism Feature Writing

Science Team – 3^rd Place

Subhang Acharya

Ranna Al-Dossari

Reggie Du

April 16^th was the UIL Academics Regional Meet in Stephenville at Tarleton State University.  North Hills students competed against the best of the best from all districts in Region 2.

The Computer Science team placed 2^nd

·         Reggie Du

·         Frances Schommer

·         Ebin Neduvelil

·         Joachim Valdez

The Science team placed 2^nd, advances to the State Meet as Wild Card

·         Subhang Acharya

·         Ranna Al-Dossari

·         Reggie Du

·         Zach Walters

Individual medals were awarded to:

·         Joachim Valdez won 1^st place in Computer Science, advances to the State Meet

·         Umang Parikh won 1^st place in Feature Writing, advances to the State Meet

·         Reggie Du won 3^rd place in Science

·         Reggie Due won 4^th place in Computer Science

·         Nathan Miller tied for 4th Place in Current Issues

·         Zach Walters tied for 5^th place in Science

Please congratulate ALL Regional participants.  They did an excellent job and well represented North Hills Preparatory!

Our North Hills Track team exceled on April 13th at the District Track meet. We have the District 3200 and 1600 Champion, Mark Knackstedt and a 3200 meter qualifier in freshman, Brandon Hassan. 3200m District Champion and 1600m runner up, Emma Cramm. Malak Al Dossari qualified in the 800m and is the District Champion in the 1600m. Susannah Powell, also qualified for Regionals in the 100 hurdles AND the 300 hurdles. Our entire team ran tremendously at District in Scurry Rosser the past two days and we want to congratulate those who will advance to Regionals on May 2nd and 3rd in Stephenville.

Also, thanks go to Dan Williamson and Robin Bailey for being invaluable during those couple of long days.

North Hills participated March 24^th in the UIL Academic District Meet, hosted at Sunnyvale High School, and I am proud to say they excelled and represented us well.

The following students medaled in the designated events and also noted are the students advancing on to the Region 2 competition in Stephenville, Texas on April 16, 2011.

Please congratulate ALL competitors when you see them on a job well done!

Calculator Applications – 1^st Place Team – entire team advances to regionals

·         Daniel Li – 1^st Place

·         Rashmi Palankar – 2^nd Place

·         Arvind Sivakumar – 4^th Place

·         Jerry Nelluvelil

Computer Applications – individual event

·         Zach Walters – 2^nd Place – advances to regionals

Computer Science – 1^st Place Team – entire team advances to regionals

·         Joachim Valdez – 1^st Place

·         Reggie Du – 2^nd Place

·         Emily Le – 3^rd Place

·         Ebin Neduvelil – 4^th Place

Current Issues & Events – 1^st Place Team – entire team advances to regionals

·         Ankit Sharma – 1^st Place

·         Nathan Miller – 2^nd Place

·         Shashank Kalanithi

Editorial Writing – individual event

·         Hayleigh Elmore – 5^th Place

·         Umang Parikh – 6^th Place

Feature Writing – individual event

·         Umang Parikh – 2^nd Place – advances to regionals

·         Hayleigh Elmore – 3^rd Place – advances to regionals

Informative Speaking – individual event

·         Nathan Miller – 2^nd Place – advances to regionals

·         Ryan Sanchez – 4^th Place

Lincoln Douglas Debate – individual event

·         Nisheet Dabadge – 3^rd Place – advances to regionals

·         Ryan Sanchez – 4^th Place

Literary Criticism

·         Mehak Noorani – 4^th Place

·         Mounica Kota – 6^th Place

Mathematics – 1^st Place Team – entire team advances to regionals

·         Varun Parameswaran – 2^nd Place

·         Rashmi Palankar – 3^rd Place

·         Luci Lamers – 4^th Place

·         Jerry Nelluvelil – 5^th Place

Number Sense – 2^nd Place Team

·         Jerry Nelluvelil – 3^rd Place – advances to regionals

·         Rashmi Palankar – 4^th Place

·         Arvind Sivakumar – 6^th Place

·         Sayon Sengupta

News Writing – individual event

·         Hayleigh Elmore – 4^th Place

Persuasive Speaking – individual event

·         Karrol Rimal – 2^nd Place – advances to regionals

·         Carlos Campos – 3^rd Place – advances to regionals

Poetry Interpretation – individual event

·         Mounica Kota – 1^st Place – advances to regionals

·         Noor Jaffery – 2^nd Place – advances to regionals

Prose Interpretation – individual event

·         Lucy Wang – 4^th Place

Ready Writing – individual event

·         Ashley Neduvelil – 4^th Place

Science – 1^st Place Team – 4 members advance to regionals

·         Reggie Du – 1^st Place science, 1^st place Chemistry, 1^st Place Physics – advances to regionals

·         Ranna Al-Dossari – 2^nd Place  – advances to regionals

·         Zach Walters – 4^th Place – advances to regionals

·  &nb, sp;      Subhang Acharya – 5^th Place – advances to regionals

·         Luci Lamers – 6^th Place

Social Studies – 2^nd Place Team – possible wild card advancement to regionals

·         Nathan Miller – 4^th Place

·         Ankit Sharma – 5^th Place

·         Paul Eiler – 6^th Place

Spelling & Vocabulary – 1^st Place Team – entire team advances to regionals

·         Varun Parameswaran – 1^st Place

·         Nisheet Dabadge – 4^th Place

·         Ashley Neduvelil – 5^th Place

Congratulations to Andrea Phillips for receiving a Gold Medal at the ISI Dallas competition at Plano in February!

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1st Annual Uplift Science Fair

March 5th was the first ever Uplift Science Fair.  It was gre, at to see all of , our schools competing in an academic setting.  What was even better was the fact that our students got to interact with their peers from other schools, hopefully gaining an appreciation for the unique talents and strengths we all have.  NHP was well represented at the Science fair, taking the top spots in the high school competition and two of the top three in the middle school competition. 

Congratulations to our winners and to all the students who participated. 

UTA Calculus Bowl Highlights our Best & Brightest Math Students!

Jarrod Milhorn

Aaron Milhorn

Rashmi Palankar

Luci Lamers

Ricky LeVan

Summerlin attends Student Leaders of Tomorrow Conference at Texas A&M University

Congratulations to Spelling Bee Participants!

Congratulations to all 46 NHP students in Grades 4-8 who took part in the school Spelling Bee!  We had a fantastic student and parent turn out, and everybody did a fantastic job.

School Champion: Manasa Muppirala, Grade 6, winning word: “psychiatry”

1st Runner-Up: Adithya Harihara, Grade 5

2nd Runner-Up:  Sylvia Titus, Grade 8

Manasa will continue on to represent NHP at the Dallas County Spelling Bee in February at the University of Texas at Dallas.

NHP Represents at Middle School UIL Academic Competition!

*A special shout out to Oral Reading - 6th Grade girls who found out they had prepared prose pieces instead of poetry and had quite literally 5 minutes to prepare to perform the poems grabbed for them out of the Scurry-Rosser library. They went from being in tears to competing like true champions in a matter of minutes and we could not be more proud!*

Congratulations to our AP Scholars!

Click Here to see all the AP Scholars, AP Scholars with Honors, and AP Scholars with Distinction.

NHP Students Announced as Semi-Finalists and Commended Students for National Merit Scholarship!

North Hills Preparatory is proud to announce five Semifinalists in the 56^th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These five students are among approximately 16,000 Semifinalists nationwide.  These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring. The NHP students are Reginald Du, Emily Le, Rich, ard Levan, Jarrod Milhorn and Joachim Valdez. 

In addition, National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named seven NHP students as Commended Students.  Although these students will not continue in the 2011 competition for National Merit Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students  who entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

The NHP Commended Students are, Sherin John, Keith Liu, Erica Myoung, Steven Riley, Aurmon Sororian, Nagil Thaimuriyil, and Zachary Walters.

Congratulations to Thomas Rahimi!

On the second of July, Thomas Rahimi competed in the Sparring events at the Junior Nationals for Taekwondo. Out of 18 people in the middle class division, Thomas won first place and automatically earned a spot on Team USA!

Thomas had 4 fights, blowing out his first three competitors by a margin of 25-0, 13-2, and 11-3. In his last match, he won in an overtime thriller! As a result of his success, Thomas has the opportunity to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado with the Olympic coaches and will receive gear and clothing sponsored by USA. During his training session with the Olympic coaches in September, the countries of Mexico, Canada, and maybe more will join together in order to hold matches in "FRIENDLY COMPETITION".

After October or November, Thomas will travel overseas with his teammates and Olympic coaches to represent Team USA and be amongst the top athletes of the world. Thomas is the first to qualify for Team USA from the Irving region, and one of a handful from the State.

Currently, Thomas is training for a trip to Korea. After winning the Texas state competition, he won the opportunity to travel to Kyung-Hee University in S. Korea in order to train with the best Taekwondo athletes of the world. He will travel with the Team Texas coaches and train nearly 7 hours a day, everyday.

Congratulations to Thomas for his great accomplishments!! This is a testament to his hard work, commitment to be the best, and the support he receives from those around him. 

Stephanie Duncan Named "Good Kid" by Dallas Morning News!

School and grade: North Hills Preparatory School in Irving, 12th grade, plan to attend North Lake College then Texas Woman's University to study fashion merchandising

Community and school activities: captain of the varsity cheerleading team, member of National Honor Society, volunteer middle school cheerleading coach and member of high school choir and theater group; selected to participate as a cheerleader in the 2010 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City

My hobbies are: cheerleading, doing crafts and riding my bike

The three words people use to describe me are: sweet, smart and caring

I'm most proud of: my good grades

My favorite school subject is: history

The two people I'd most like to meet are: Carrie Underwood and Robert Pattinson

The best book I ever read is: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

My favorite musical artist is: Carrie Underwood

I wish I knew how to: sew

The best advice I ever received was: if you want something, go after it