Spirit Competition Kick Off 2021! Video

The Highlands Spirit Competition 21-22 kicked off with the teachers over the course of 1 week battled for the top spot on our Nintendo Switch! For the game, Mr. White chose the super fun racing game based on the Pixar movie: Cars 3! 2 teachers from each team raced the Copper Canyon Speedway track and tried their very best to get the fastest to the checkered flag! The competition was furious as the teachers tried to tap into their inner child for video game skill and strategy! Each teacher played once, and the average team time was taken to determine the winners of the games!

Ironically, Team A (Laule'a) - Cars took first place! Congrats to Mr. Esteban and Mr. Zhang for being our Teacher Champions and bringing eternal glory to your team this year!!!

 

Spirit Competition 20-21 Kick Off! "Level Up!" Teacher Challenge

We’re gonna throw it back to the beginning of the school year and the kick-off event for the Highlands Spirit Competition 20-21! Our theme this year is "Level Up!", a video game theme that seemed so appropriate with the distance learning/virtual school reality we are all stuck with... Since the teachers were already on campus, we decided to kick-off our annual competition with them! Over the course of 1 week, 2 teachers from each team took over the Student Council Room and battled it out via our resident Nintendo Switch! Mr. White hand-selected 8 classics from the original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System): Super Marios Bros, Donkey Kong, Excitebike, Super Punchout!, Ghosts n Goblins, Donkey Kong Jr., Dr. Mario and the one that started it all… the original Mario Bros.! The teams of teachers played the Nintendo Classics and tried their very best to get the highest scores possible within the given timeframe for each of the games. The competition was furious and frenetic as the teachers tried to tap into their child for video game skill and strategy! After 7 rounds of play, it was Team C - Koa Kau Lio (Ms. Smitha and Mr. Zhang) that prevailed and took 1st Place!!! Check out the link in the bio above to see all the action... Let's look forward to many more opportunities to "Level Up!" in the 2nd semester - bring it!!!