HF FYI

4/4/2024 CORRECTION: There was a typo in the schedule for Monday that listed the incorrect periods. The correct information is Monday 4/8: Block 1 (Periods 1-2-3-Advisory-5-4)

For arrival:

• All students will take the normal 2nd period bus. Students will need to be in their testing locations by 8:30 a.m.

For dismissal:

• Grades 9 and 10 standard time students will dismiss at 11:30 a.m.
• Grade 11 standard time students and grade 9 and 10 extended time students will dismiss at 12:30 p.m.
• Grade 11 extended time students will dismiss at 3 p.m.

To accommodate the testing day, the week will have a slightly adjusted schedule:

• Monday 4/8: Block 1 (Periods 1-2-3-Advisory-5-4)
• Tuesday 4/9: Block 2 (Late-Start Day, Periods 7-6-5-4)
• Wednesday 4/10: Testing Day (No School for Seniors)
• Thursday 4/11: Block 3 (Periods 1-2-3-Advisory-6-7)
• Friday 4/12: Viking Day Schedule (Periods 1-7)

HF's Guidance Office along with the HF Foundation and HF Parent Association are happy to announce the release of the HF Foundation Scholarships! The scholarships will be available until this Sunday, April 7.

All applications will be accessible and completed through a Google Survey. There will be no paper or hard copies available in the Guidance Office. Please find the 2024 Foundation Scholarship application here.

For additional scholarship applications and general information regarding scholarships please visit our scholarship page. Any scholarship questions should be directed to the Post-Secondary Counselors Mr. Kain (bkain@hf233.org) or Mr. Coy (kcoy@hf233.org).

Prom is just about a month away, happening Saturday, May 4 from 8 p.m.-12 a.m. at the Field Museum (1400 S. Lake Shore Drive.) This year's theme is 24K Magic!

Check out the Prom FAQ below for all you need to know about Prom, including:

• who can attend
• additional ticket information
• day-of to-do's
• and more!

Tickets are $180 per person and are on sale now through Thursday, April 26 (10 p.m.) on GoFan.

Say hello to our March Students of the Month, here with Associate Principal Swilley: Aniyah Miller, Max Benitez, Lady Theodora Gibson, Mia Selsor and Jordin Bates! Not pictured here: Lucy Boiling, Naima Dodson, Nya Phillips, and Violet Quirke. You make your Viking community proud!

Congratulations to Mrs. Alexander's Advanced Computer Applications students for passing the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam for Word 2016! The certification is the premier credential chosen by individuals seeking to validate their skills and advance their careers.

Daniel Ashadele, Asha Brown, Ramon Brown, Trinity Calvin, Jeffrey Cray, Tristen Donaldson, Josiah Ellis, Xavier Haynes, Xavier Knox (not pictured), Destiny Paredes, Jordan Potter, Lavontae Richardson, Violet Rodriguez, Kayden Sims, Joel Sterling (not pictured), and Alexander Tate.

The students have shown they have the skills to tap the full features and functionality of Microsoft Office specifically Microsoft Word. Certification requires individuals to demonstrate their ability to create and format documents, text, and produce business documents.

The annual Art ConnectED Senior Scholarship is a competition where higher learning institutions assess hundreds of student portfolios, then offering scholarships to pursue careers in the arts.

HF is proud to have 5 students' portfolios earn them +$550,000 in offers!

Congrats to: Giane Hassell, Isis McBride-Ali, Nasira McBride-Ali, Kolapo Kolawole, and Asha Brown (second photo). Most notably, both Asha and Kolapo were each awarded $100,000 to pursue a degree from Illinois Wesleyan University!

In addition to the scholarship offers, Art Connected also selects a couple of works from each school to be showcased in the Senior Scholarship Exhibition at the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, happening Sunday, April 21. Both Kolapo and Nasira's works were chosen to be displayed in the exhibition.

Check out these theatre students who participated in the Regional August Wilson New Voices Monologue Competition at UIC last month. Competing against 300 other Chicagoland students, they are 6 of 60 students that advanced to the Semi-Finals! Karinne Watkins '25, Savannah Howard '24, Ronald (Trey) Gerring '24, Nia Peterson '24 and Benjamin Peden '25 (not pictured: Nia Allen '27).

Special shout out to Trey Gerring (middle) for making it into the top 20 finalists: He will compete April 18 in a showcase at The Goodman Theatre. The performance is free and open to the public. The winner will advance to the National Competition in Pittsburgh, PA. Learn more here.

HF's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Department, in partnership with New Trier, Lyons Township, and Community High School District 218, kicked off a new collaborative last week to support the AP African-American Studies course.

Teachers from Glenbard, Lyons Township, Richards, and Bradley-Bourbonnais came to observe our very own Krystal Davis and workshop with one another to develop units for teaching the course.

After engaging in a lesson alongside visiting teachers, our students shared insights on how to meaningfully engage the material as well as how to think critically about the importance of race when teaching this course.

HF Summer Sports Camps provide student-athletes in our community with a foundation of fundamental skills, knowledge, character, leadership and love for athletics. Recognizing that while skills and drills are critical to the improvement of an athlete, making the sport fun is essential to developing the passion for the game. We hope you’ll join the tradition of HF athletics this summer by training and learning from some of the best coaches in high school athletics in some of the best facilities in the country! Register on hf.8to18.com. Browse the camp offerings in our brochure here.

Join the Vikings Baseball Booster Club for the Chicago Classic, happening on Saturday, April 13 at 11 a.m. Be sure to wear all black as the Vikings take on Lane Tech. Tickets can be purchased via Zelle: HFVIKINGBSBL@gmail.com. Go Vikings!

Homewood-Flossmoor High School and Honest Game have partnered to provide students and families with an easy-to-use College Athletic Pathway software and additional educational resources. We know that accessing scholarships and college athletics requires not only a commitment to athletic training and competition but also a commitment to academic success.

Honest Game’s online platform provides students and families with individualized tracking across FIVE college athletic opportunities, including NCAA DI, DII, DII, NAIA, and Junior College pathways. Learn more and get started by clicking the link below.

Tomorrow, April 4

• Northern Illinois University (3rd Period, 9:52 a.m.)
• University of South Florida (4th Period, 1:55 p.m.)

The Guidance Office is hosting college reps visiting with our students during the spring semester! Please have your child log onto SchooLinks to register. Once logged in (they log in with their HF Gmail account), they will simply click on "School Events", where they will see the list of colleges signed up. They can click on the college that they are interested in visiting. After that, click on "register for this event", and that's it!

Please have your child make sure that they discuss this with their teacher whose class they're missing and ask for a pass for the day they will be meeting with the college rep. Please know that visiting with college reps is a privilege, not a right, and your teacher has the discrepancy to say no. If that's the case, have your child reach out to Mr. Kain (bkain@hf233.org) or Mr. Coy (kcoy@hf233.org) and they can get them some information and send it their way. Any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mr. Kain or Mr. Coy.

Our Guidance Department has been working to inform Seniors and their families about issues regarding financial aid award letters from colleges. Please see this letter below for more information and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our Post-Secondary Counselors Mr. Kain at bkain@hf233.org or Mr. Coy at kcoy@hf233.org.

Summer School registration is taking place online through April 26, 2024 (or until classes are full). Complete the Course Request Google Form here. Note: Submission of the form alone does not guarantee registration for the course. Once the form is submitted, fees will be put on your student's account. Once payment is received, the student will be registered for the class. Learn more by visiting the Summer School page of our website here.

HF is offering Driver Education this summer:

• Behind-the-Wheel: For students who have completed the classroom requirement.
• Classroom & Behind-the-Wheel: For students who will be 16 years of age before November 1, 2024, and have sophomore status.

Visit our Driver Education page here.

HF School Counseling Department held a webinar for families of rising 9-12th graders about the course selection process for next school year. A recording of the session has been uploaded to the HF website, and you can re-watch it here. Check out the 2024-25 Course Offerings here.

As the Class of 2028 prepares to begin their Viking Voyage, this guidebook provides all the information families and students need to get started. You can also re-watch the Course Selection Informational Meeting here. Please share this with any eighth graders and their families that will be Vikings next school year.

As you prepare to become a Viking, you may be interested in ways HF's Special Education Department can best serve a student's individual needs. Click here to watch the informational presentation by our Director of Special Education David Dore.

As anticipation of the April 8 Solar Eclipse heightens, here are some things to keep in mind so you can safely take part. Thanks to Ready Illinois for these safety tips!

Join the HF Special Education Department on April 10, 2024, at 6 p.m. for a presentation on "Let's Learn About Self-Advocacy and The Alliance".

Self-advocacy is like a puzzle. Tavarus Wesley, Advocacy Coordinator, and Krescene Beck, Organizational Advocacy, from the Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance, Inc. will help participants solve the self-advocacy puzzle by putting together the pieces - who, what, when, where, how, why- needed to speak up and speak out for their lives.

Click here to join the presentation (Passcode: 459980)

Check out the Transition Resource Library for supplemental resources. QUESTIONS? Contact the Homewood-Flossmoor Special Education Department at (708) 335-5691.

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