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HHIHS Culinary Arts goes to TCL CATE Showcase
By: Lucy Morales
CATE stands for Career and Technical Education. CATE classes aim to expose students to engaging courses that prepare students for modern day activities and work.
On December 16th, 2023, the Technical College of the Lowcountry hosted a CATE Showcase that featured CATE classes from throughout the district.
Chef Hill, the culinary teacher at HHIHS, was chosen to participate in this showcase.
Some classes featured in the showcase were nursing, EMT, firefighting, culinary, robotics and more.
Chef Hill states, “my role in the showcase was to show off the culinary career path as well as my cohort, who is the culinary chef at ACE, Eric Sayers.”
This showcase is a great way for business owners and community leaders to come out and talk to students and take a look at what students are learning.
Chef Hill states, “it was a good experience. We had people from all over the county come. Prospective employers came and were able to talk to the students and students were also able to talk to the possible future employers to see what they're looking for, positions they might have open currently and in the future.”
This showcase benefits students because they can see what employers are looking for. This is helpful for when they search for a job after school.
The Blood Drive
By: Ryan Kurz
The blood drive is very important for many reasons. The blood drive is a truck and goes to many places on the island, one of them is the Island Rec Center which is next to the Hilton Head High School and is nursed by Lindsey Sheehan and others. If you get time to please go out and donate blood.
13.6 million units of blood are donated each year, so this brings up the question of where it would go. Sheehan says “most of the blood will go to hospitals where they will separate each type and it will be used in emergency situations, for example someone who has lost too much blood.”
There are many different types of blood so it matters that the person has the same type of blood as the blood given to them. Sheehan said “Say a person has type A blood you can't give them type B blood, so the blood you donate has to go to a particular person that matches your type.”
There could be many reasons the blood donated benefits people. Shehan stated “it will be used in a process called transfusion and that will be used to help replace blood that is lost due to surgery or injury and help with disorders that prevent people from making blood correctly.”
Many things happen if you are given the wrong blood type but Sheehan believes that “Giving a person the wrong blood type could kill them or give them a severe reaction.” Speaking on this topic out of the 17 million blood transfusions 37 patients have died in one year from a mistake.
Many nurses don’t like the hours that come with the job but most nurses would say they love the pay and to help people. Sheehan said “I love my job. I don't have the same hours as a normal person but I still get to save lives.”
The blood bus goes to many places on and off the island. Sheehan said her favorite is “Shelter Cove because there's a lot of shops and it's well known so good for the bus but my favorite part is the view and the sunset”.
Many places get blood donations and they have locations online where you can make appointments. Sheehan says “the place that makes the most donations is Coligny probably because the tourists see the big red bus and just come in to donate.”
Many blood donation centers give some sort of sugar after they take your blood like a cookie. Shehan said “We do not currently give out cookies because it costs a lot of money to give every person a cookie.”
The process of donating is not familiar to many, most don't know what they're getting into so therefore stopping them from donating. Sheehan “it’s a pretty simple and easy procedure first you come and sit down then we stick the needle into a vein and connect it to an iv and take some blood.” If you're in the area around one of these buses you should donate your blood to them and save lives.
Blood Drive
By: Samanta Garcia
A blood drive is when someone donates blood voluntarily usually as a charitable cause. Hilton Head Island High School allows students to donate blood with parental consent. Ms. Emerick is the one who helps set it up and she will discuss more about it.
There are requirements to donate blood, she said “ You have to be at least sixteen years old, have parental consent, you have to be at least 110 LBS and you can’t be sick to donate.” If you are older than seventeen you don’t need parental consent to donate. Teachers can also donate.
Ms. Emerick said that the blood drive runs twice a year. The company that runs the blood drive with HHIHS is OneBlood, they contact her and they get dates to run the blood drive.
The blood drive is completely safe, they suggest that you eat a good meal the day before you are donating blood and to eat something before you donate blood. They take about 500 milliliters which is about one pint of blood.
Ms Emerick said, “Yes we do get a good majority of kids to sign up and donate blood.”
The blood drive here in HHIHS is very positive for those who donate to get a shirt, they get chips while donating the blood as well. It's an amazing thing for these students in HHIHS to sign up and donate for a charitable cau
Senior Class Shirts
By: Jada Green
Hilton Head Island High has an annual tradition for seniors. That famous tradition is class shirts. Class shirts are looked at as “ it’s thought to be like a celebration of the fact that you’ve finally made it to your senior year and also a source of school pride, and pride of the fact that you’ve made it, to also give you that push to graduate,” stated Ms.White.
Every class has a unique theme for the designs of the shirts. For example Ms White states “This year's theme is ‘you have not seen the last of us yet.’ The theme was thought to be an inspiration for students to finish the year off right.”
Every class is different when it comes to designing the shirts, for example Ms. White states, “In past years students would submit their ideas, but this year we’ll work with a designer, his company is Living Up, which was suggested to us by our distinct.”
Seniors are allowed to wear the shirts as they will. Due to them being within the dress code. With that being said Ms. White stated, “There is no cost for the class shirts.”
As stated before, class shirts are tradition here. Like Ms. White states, “We like for the seniors to represent to the other classes that you can do this, and this is the perfect time to present your class year.”
Veterans Day
By: Samanta Garcia
The Hilton Head Island High School NJROTC Color Guard team does the Veterans and Memorial Day events every year in Shelter Cove. To support not only all veterans, but this Islands own veterans. This year Veterans Day was November 11, 2023 in Shelter Cove. Color guard team member Angela Garcia will discuss more about it.
“The color guard consists of two rifle bearers and nine flag bearers representing each branch of the military.” In total eleven members of the Color Guard team have to participate in the Veterans Day memorial service. Each will have a different task whether it's carrying the national flag or being a rifle bearer.
In order for this color guard to go well they had to practice, “ We will practice on Veterans Day and we practiced throughout the week to be fully prepared,” she said. They show up about one hour before the ceremony begins to have everything ready and to practice.
“ The ceremony is about two hours long, and to get kids motivated, Commander provides food at Fiesta Fresh after the event.” To show a little token of appreciation and to get kids to sign up, Commander Pheiffer treats them after the ceremony.
“We present the colors and retire the colors, so that means we have to present the colors at the beginning of the ceremony and retire the colors at the end of the ceremony.”
The NJROTC Color Guard team does this every year for several other events, they usually get treats after and it does count as service hours, but the importance of them willing to take time out of their day to respect and honor those who have fought for our country is remarkable.
French Week At HHIHS
By: Ashton Johnson
Every year, from November 1st-8th, people around the world are celebrating National French Week. At Hilton Head Island High School (HHIHS), Students taking French are taking part in National French week in order to celebrate French culture.
“I think it is important to celebrate National French week because it is a very common language and culture and there are a lot of people who speak French.” Said Jack enthusiastically.
“Every day this week, there will be a trivia contest hosted by us on the school news show. The questions will be various questions about French culture and language” Jack stated. These trivia questions offer a fun and unique way to involve every student at HHIHS to be involved in National French Week.
“Another way we can celebrate French culture is by the cuisine. Food is one of the most basic elements necessary to human life and is charged with all sorts of personal, family, and cultural symbolism, so it means a lot to celebrate French week with their cuisine.” Jack said.
It’s great to see so many students here at Hilton Head Island High School, celebrating the culture, and history of the french.
Day of the Dead
By: Jada Green
Here at the Nest, Culture Club decided to celebrate Day of the Dead. You might be wondering what exactly is “Dead of the Dead”, well according to the Vice President of Culture Club, Juan Leyva Perez “The Day of the Dead is a common tradition that is celebrated in the beginning of November by many people in Mexico and other countries in Latin America. They celebrate the dead by putting up an altar for passed loved ones. They decorate the altar with things that the person loved.”
“Culture club celebrated Day of the Dead by setting up an Ofrenda in the front of the school and hanging up pictures of celebrities that have passed away, for example Princess Diana, Selena Quintanilla, etc… and painting a huge skull with beautiful bright colors and surrounding it with flowers," Juan Perez stated.
Celebrating Day of the Dead helps students notice we can celebrate other things here at the Nest. For example we don’t have to only celebrate sports or achievements we can now celebrate Cultural holidays that might be meaningful and major to other cultures.
“Holidays like this are the perfect time to show off our culture and heritage” Juan Perez states.
“Anyone can celebrate Day of the Dead, if you have a loved one who passed away and you want to remember them by using an altar/ofrenda it is pretty easy. Just set up a picture of them on a table and surround it with their favorite things and you’ll be good to go” stated Juan Perez.
Culture Club also sold bracelets and goodie bags during the two days of Day of the Dead. The bracelets were based on Latin American Countri
HHIHS Celebrates Unity Day
By: Jada Green
Here at HHIHS we celebrate Unity Day. You might be wondering what Unity Day is, well according to Ms. Mielcarek “Unity Day is a national event to highlight people being kind to each other and anti-bullying”
We celebrate it as a school because “we think it is important for everyone to be aware of anti-bullying and also to just spread kindness.” states Ms. Mielcarek.
We celebrated it in school by having students and staff wear orange, and during all 3 lunches we had a banner for students to sign for a piece of candy to remember to be sweet to other people. According to Ms.Mielcarek “This was the perfect opportunity to remind students to be kind to one another.”
Unity might have a different meaning to others but this is what Ms.Mielcarek thinks of Unity, “It goes back to being kind, like we have choices in life that we can make and we can choose to be kind or not to be, but overall, it is easier to be kind. It is free, it doesn’t cost anyone anything and it really makes other people's day 10 times better.”
And lastly “ it is important to acknowledge because bullying unfortunately does happen and we can’t turn a blind eye to it. We need to recognize that it’s there and we need to realize that we are the solution, only we as a group can stand up against bullying.”