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#DecisionDay
looked a lot different this year, but we still found a way to celebrate our seniors from a safe distance! They decorated their cars and drove through the BHS parking lot.
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#WeAreBarrington
As part of our AP US Government and Civics classes, BHS placed student election judges throughout Cook and Lake County. Students helped set up polling places yesterday evening and helped voters all day today!
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#ElectionDay
When our students return in August they’ll have a new commons area to work and hang out in! Located on the main level by the physics courtyard, this area used to be filled with lockers. Students are using lockers less, as technology has reduced the need to lug books around.
Our custodial staff had quite the surprise this morning! Members of student council organized a surprise breakfast for them, with gifts!
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Proud to announce BHS has been named an Apple Distinguished School for 2018-2021!
#AppleDistinguishedSchools
are centers of innovation, leadership, and educational excellence that use Apple products to inspire creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.
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#BSD220Tech
Congrats to the Robotics Team, which has qualified to compete at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenege WORLD Championship, which will take place in Detroit in late April! They will compete against 160 other teams.
Another awesome pitch night at BHS! We love seeing the creativity of our students. Congrats to Safe Pack, Sitter Search and Breath Saver!
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#Entrepreneur
Here’s a peek inside our new Health Sciences Lab! Don’t miss the open house at this year’s Alumni Legends event on Sept. 26 at 5:30pm!
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Today several local veterans attended a Veterans Day Commemoration ceremony at BHS, where they had a chance to speak to our social studies students. Thank you for your service!
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#VeteransDay
Congrats to BHS student and chess player Shreya (pictured center) on winning the 15th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls Invitational this summer in St. Louis! It’s America’s most prestigious all-girls chess tournament!
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Congrats to these Business Incubator students who recently took 1st in a mobile app competition hosted by the NIU College of Business! Their startup, Sustained Style, won the $800 prize. Sustained Style is a platform that ranks brands based on their ethical/sustainable practices.
It takes a lot of behind the scenes work to get BHS up and running for our students each day. In this video created by
@238_studios
, we thank the staff members who may not always get recognition for their efforts! CLICK HERE:
Anna Mae King of Barrington leads off our series of columns on the student/athletes named to the IHSA 2019-2020 All-Academic first team.
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via
@dailyherald
This morning upperclassmen mentors led incoming freshman and transfer students on a tour around campus for orientation. Get excited for the next 4 years!
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As a Fulbright recipient, teacher Heidi Rockwell is taking a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classroom's (TGC) course, in which she has partnered with a teacher from PA to increase their students' global understanding of the world.
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Check out these yummy Valentine’s Day treats made by the students in our Baking and Pastry Arts class! Stop by the Bronco Bakery (next to gym) today during all passing periods!
#ValentinesDay2019
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Our freshman French students are talking to visiting French foreign exchange students about the differences between high school in the US and France! 🇫🇷
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Be sure to check out the wonderful photography by Campus Attendant Ron Johnson, on display this month in the Clair E. Smith Gallery!
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At BHS we value our status as members of the greater Barrington community. We are committed to developing partnerships with local businesses to spread the educational experience of our students beyond the walls of BHS.
Thanks to our summer Pre-Professional Internship sites!
“Barrington High School has long been considered an excellent high school. With an artful blend of rich traditions and cutting edge innovation, BHS is a source of pride in our community.” Click the link to read our 2018-19 school profile:
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Do you know Mr. Johnson, aka “Mr. Happy”? He’s a campus activity attendant at BHS, who also happens to be an amazing photographer. His photos are on display at the Barrington Area Library through August!
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Thanks to the staff who participated in the Poetry Cafe at the library during 8th hour! We enjoyed the reading of your poem by Shel Silverstein!
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Thanks to our amazing community partners, 17 students are getting real world work experience this summer, as part of our Pre-Professional Summer Internehip Program! Pictured: one of our students working at Pepper Construction.
Over the weekend our newspaper and yearbook students attended the Journalism Education Association’s national conference in Chicago. Of the more than 2,000 participants, 9 BHS students placed in the writing competitions!
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#WeAreBarrington
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AP US Government and Civics students are in the auditorium today doing a congressional committee simulation! Students have written and researched authentic legislation and are debating and voting on those legislative items in 35 different committees.
@Waxler81
@WeisenburgerBHS
Our student voter registration drive is 1 week from today! Before school by the senior locker bank and all day in the Commons. Bring your driver’s license and student ID!
#BHSVotes
Thank you to international consultant and author ReLeah Lent and former D220 employee and author Marsha Voigt for working with our teachers today to share tips and easy shifts in teaching to engage students in literacy!
#literacy
Our student voter registration drive is two weeks from today on 1/23! If you’re turning 18 on or before Nov. 3, 2020 (date of presidential election), you can vote in the March 17 primary election! Bring your driver’s license and student ID!
#BHSVOTES
Students from our Business Incubator class are at ISU for the Celebrating High School Innovators competition. Congrats to the students who created Safe Pack, which won a $1,000 prize! The team created a fanny pack that protects your phone from being lost, dropped, or stolen.
Another week gone by and more progress on the construction of our new Health Sciences lab! It will have a window to the hallway, so students walking by will be able to see what’s going on inside the lab.
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#HealthSciences
Thank you to
@PepsiCo
and
@LULAC
for sponsoring a mentor program that gives our high school students a chance to work alongside PepsiCo employees in STEM related careers! Students had their first PepsiCo visit this week, where they made their own Gatorade flavor!
#WeAreBarrington
There’s still time to learn more about our various service clubs in the community! Pick up a punch card during your lunch hour, visit 6 booths, pick up a taffy Apple!
Our new Health Sciences Lab is coming along! The top photo was taken one week ago. The bottom photo was taken today. Once it’s complete, this innovative space will open the door to healthcare careers for our students.
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Congrats to these
@incubatoredu
students on being selected to compete in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Midwest High School Pitch on March 17. Their team is one of only seven student teams from across WI and IL to be selected for this
@ABCSharkTank
style competition!
As part of
#BSD220
Safety Week, just after 10 this morning BHS is holding a safety drill that will involve students evacuating the school. As a result, Main Street in front of BHS will be temporarily blocked off by emergency vehicles. PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS JUST A DRILL.
#Safety220
It was great to have some of our featured Alumni Legends panelists talk to our journalism students ahead of tonight’s Alumni Legends event! “Journeys in Journalism: Past, Present and Future” 7pm in the auditorium!
How cool is this? Some BHS fine arts students had to create a work of art featuring text as a major element in their design. A sculpture student made this dress out of folded and paper mache pages from a yellow book. Remember those? :)
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Every Wednesday morning the BHS fine arts team holds a meeting in the drawing and painting room. We are surrounded by amazing, in-progress student art work each week. Here are a few large-scale developing pieces that surround us today!
#inspired
@220Arts
@BarringtonHS220
Some great ideas during day 1 of Business Incubator classroom pitches! Pitch Night is one week from today at 7pm in the auditorium!
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#WeAreBarrington
Before spring break 221 students were inducted into World Language Honor Societies (Chinese, French, German, Latin, Spanish)!
In addition, the Multilingual Scholar Award was given to 2 seniors. Congrats to AJ Frey (German/Spanish) and Mathias Leanza (Spanish/French)!
Please join us for the GEM Showcase at BHS! This open house event will allow GEM students to highlight some of their learning experiences and independent research during the first half of the 2023-24 school!