Highlands Hunger Games 6: "The Battle for Olympus!"

Highlands Hunger Games 6: “The Battle for Olympus!” made it’s return to Highlands Intermediate 18-19 school year! To begin, a Reaping was conducting live over the bulletin -- where 5 girl and 5 boy tributes were chosen to represent each team in this year’s Hunger Games. Just like the movie, Volunteers were given the opportunity to take the place of Tributes just like Katniss did for her baby sister, Prim.  The days leading up to the Games filled all the students with both anxiety and excitement -- you could feel it all across campus! When the day finally came for HHG6, all students eagerly entered the Gym and they were amazed with the setup and layout of “The Battle for Olympus!”. Ten ancient greek walls were there to help Tributes to dodge bolts or hide from their opponents. In the middle was the cornucopia which is where all the weapons were held: crossbows, grenades, and the fearsome Stratobow! There were 6 Hunger Games Rounds to play…. as soon the buzzer went off, each Tribute would run to the middle for weapons or lay back and wait it out -- a tough decision! As the rounds went and Tributes got eliminated parachutes would be launched from the Sponsors into the playing field providing food and water (also known as 25 spirit points!). You could hear everyone with 100% excitement, cheering for their team, especially if their team Tributes were still alive! To top it all off, we ended HHG6 with the teacher round where 2 teachers challenged the other teams for spirit points and more importantly, glory! Judging from the pictures, this has to have been the craziest, wildest Highlands Hunger Games of them all!   Brittany Ann Nozaki, Assembly Committee

Welcome Back Assembly 2018 "Welcome to Olympus!"

Welcome Back, Heroes!!!!!! The Welcome Back Assembly 2018 “Welcome to Olympus!” was thrilling and amazing! To get it started right, the Student Council stood in the doorways of the gym shouting cheers to all the student to pump them up for the biggest assembly of the year! To kickoff the assembly we had Thalia sing the “Star Spangled Banner” and Menine sung “Hawaii Pono’i.” After hearing their wonderful singing, Mr. Rabacal played ukulele and sang “This Is Me” from the movie, The Greatest Showman -- it was soooooo awesome! Next, the Highlands Student Council got introduced to the school with a dance to Bruno Mars’ “Gibberish.” After that, it was the new teachers’ turn!  After being introduced, they surprised everyone with the “Cupid Shuffle.” Taking it up several notches *hahahah*, dancers from Treasure Box Studios took to the floor with an amazing dance routine!!! The rest of the assembly was dedicated to kicking off the Highlands Spirit Competition through several games played between the 7 Highlands Teams: Poseidon’s Relay Race, Hermes Cup Challenge, Sword Balance, Sword Flip, Sword Tag, Sword Thief, and Chariot Race!  It was great to see both students and teachers participating with such spirit and skill… we just knew it was just the beginning of some amazing things to come! Brittany, Assembly Co-Chairperson