Highlands Leadership Summit 2025

The Highlands Intermediate Leadership Summit 2025 was an unforgettable experience, bringing together students eager to grow as leaders and in order to make a difference in their schools and communities. The event was packed with inspiring activities that challenged us to think critically, communicate effectively and have confidence in ourselves. The Highlands intermediate Student Council got the opportunity to facilitate all the activities with the seven Pearl City elementary schools that attended. The facilitators taught leadership skills and how to plan events at their school to make them even better! As the conference concluded, the participating students not only had a great deal of fun but also gained practical knowledge. At the end of the day, they left with newfound confidence and enthusiasm for their roles as leaders of their respective schools. Ava Torres, 8th Grade Class Council

Highlands Haunted House 12: Wrap Party

Pizza, drinks, awards and fun! The Highlands Student Council celebrated on November 7th, 2024 after our amazing 5 day run of Highlands Haunted House 12: “Ravenloft”. The wrap up party was filled with laughter and fun with funny awards that were given out to all the cast members who participated in this year’s Haunted House! Big thanks to the entire crew - 45 amazing Actors, Guides and Special FX who also braved Haunted Plantation and went to Scare School 11 to bring you all the best Highlands Haunted House yet!

Highlands Leadership Workshop 2024

Highlands Leadership Workshop 2024 was awesome and meaningful;! All Homeroom Representatives, Club Officers, and new Student Council members were invited to learn how to become leaders. There were over 70 attendees! Highlands Leadership Workshop was facilitated by Period 4 Leadership Class and our awesome Student Council Advisor, Mr. White. In the beginning everyone was quiet and shy but as the day progressed we did so many fun activities that brought people out of their comfort zones and into their courage zones! We played fun energizers like Super Ultimate High Five!, Head-Shoulders-Knees-Cup! And the ever favorite, All My Friends. Students also learned something called the Interactive Method which taught student how to facilitate and run effective meetings. By the end of the day, our future leaders were so hyped and left being so excited to be this year's newest Homeroom Representatives, Club Officers, and Student Council members ;)  Andrea Enanoria, Dance Committee

Highlands Haunted House 11: Guides, Actors, Special FX!

October is almost here and Halloween is fast approaching! To get everyone in the "spirit" and to continue this special tradition here at Highlands, we spent several weeks putting together our annual Highlands Haunted House. This year marked our 11th event and it was a banger! Student Council ran the Highlands Haunted House 11 for 1 whole week right before Halloween. Each Student Council member got to chose their role as either an Actor, Special FX or Guide. Guests were grouped into fours in the order of either Dwarf, Barbarian, Elf, or Wizard characters. The way ahead was dark and thankfully our Guides were clever enough to bring "torches" to help guide their groups safely through the haunt. Each character was called upon to use their special abilities in order to conquer each challenge presented to the group until they ultimately found themselves face to face with Varag the Terrible! Now trapped, the group had to use everything they had in order to slay the foul beast and his dark minions. Huge thanks to our amazing Actors, Guides, and Special FX crew for making our haunt interactive, interesting, and oh so memorable! We can still hear all of your screams til this day hahahahahahahahaha… Elvin Yao, Service Committee

Highlands Halloween Art Contest 2022

Get ready to scream, with the Highlands Halloween Contest 2022! The 3 categories were Spookiest, Most Creative, and our school theme this year, Fantastic Beasts. New talent was discovered when there was so much creepy, yet amazing artwork that was able to be showcased all over the campus. What a scare… what a screech… what scream?!?  This seemed to be the perfect way to prepare the students for the annual Highlands Haunted House and the upcoming season of spook. Happy Halloween, Colts! :) Emma, 7th Grade Council