The Seahawk Times - Clubs and Activities (7)

DECA Club

By: Lilly Friday and Jessica Staigar

Hilton Head Island High School offers many clubs, one of which is DECA. According to Ashley Ames, “DECA is a competitive platform where you can choose different professions and compete as them.” There are many different professions that students can choose to represent, such as human resources. Once students choose their profession they are given a certain situation and have to act out how that profession would handle that specific situation. There are competitions against other schools in the state, “regionals determine who goes to states, top 8 contenders make it to states, but it is top 3 who get to go to nationals.”

DECA is a great way to bond with other students while also competing against them. According to Ashley Ames, “DECA is honestly a really great club… states was so much fun.”

Read Across America Week

By: Yarezi Bruno

Hilton Head Island High School had Read Across America Week during the last days of February through the beginning of March.

Q: What is Read Across America week?

A: Read Across America Week is celebrated the week of March 2 every year. March 2 is “Read Across America Day” which was created in 1998 as a way to get kids excited about reading. It also happens to be the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The week is a way to encourage teachers, students, community members, and parents to come together and celebrate reading!

Q: When did Read Across America start?

A: 1998

Q: Who came up with read across America?

A: The National Education Association came up with the idea for “Read Across America” Day

Q: How do HHIHS celebrate Read Across America?

A: At HHIHS we celebrated by having a spirit week that was reading themed.

Remember That Movie They Played

By: David Hernandez and Steven Putbrese

Hilton Head Island High School is showing a movie during Black History Month and its purpose of being shown is so that students can get the “message” of the movie. A High School Staff Member, Ms. Robinson discusses some common things about the showing of the movie being played in the Media Center. Ms. Robinson says, “It's an honor to help celebrate Black History Month. We wanted to watch a movie that had strong African-American characters that promoted a really good message about teaching tolerance and overcoming hard times so we wanted to show it during the lunches and give the students a chance to watch.” Like every movie about to be watched, you must be quick because seating is limited and because of tickets though tickets are used differently. Ms. Robinson says, “we do 30 seats per lunch.” and, “you don’t have to pay for it, you just have to pick up a ticket so that they (Teachers, Administrators, etc) know you're coming here (Media Center) instead of skipping class.”

Model UN Results

By: Isabelle Drake

Model UN is an extracurricular activity open for students in Hilton Head Island High School. The students participating in the most recent meeting out in Georgia returned home with a second-place award overall as well as many other individual awards. Honorable mentions were awarded to the students representing Denmark and Lebanon. Distinguished Delegations were awarded to the representatives of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Chile, and The Central African Republic. Congratulations to our Stellar Seahawks!