On Thursday, June 23, artist Alexandra Haller, IB class of 2016, installed her statue in honor of HHS IB program on the grounds. The statue, a globe of reclaimed metal, has as its heart the profile logo of the IB Learner Profile. This statue is the culmination of long years of dreams and fund-raising. Around the base of the statue will be planted lilies, Stella d’oro which celebrate our green and gold, in memory of Caroline Lily Knotts, also in the class of 2016, who lost her life in a tragic accident. The statue honors HHS’s IB history since 1995 and welcomes students to our newly expanded program, making HHS a genuine IB World School.

Ashley Brown, 2016 HHS and IB grad, graduated from VCU with Summa Cum Laude honors back in December 2020 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She also graduated from the XC/Track & Field team with 3 championship medals, 4 championship rings, and a school record under her belt, although her final outdoor season was cut off because of the pandemic. She immediately entered a master’s program in engineering management through Kennesaw State University online, and she will be graduating this upcoming May! She is greeted from graduation with a full-time position with General Electric Aviation, where she interned for 3 summers, under their Operations Management Leadership Program.

Any IB students interested in her major or in VCU, please contact Ms. Terry, who can share Ashley’s contact info.

Join us tonight, January 26, at 6:30 at this link to honor our IB Class of 2021! If you could not make the meeting in real time, here is a recording. We apologize for the abrupt nature in the beginning but we eventually got it together! https://hcpschools-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/awcraver_henrico_k12_va_us/Ed8wtGTYfehEgXU3S8A5dHkB5BsWAifLHNSyQe4p2xheGQ

https://henricocitizen.substack.com/p/henrico-high-schoolers-teach-stem?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyOTMxNjcwMCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDI1OTA4MzQsIl8iOiJ0L1ZqRCIsImlhdCI6MTYzNTM2NDg4OCwiZXhwIjoxNjM1MzY4NDg4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjk0OTAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rhqesuknmy3HbyI51-j0kjo_-Rre31lWH0zKZu6mxIk

A group of Henrico high-schoolers are sharing their passion for STEM with elementary and middle school students around the world through their organization STEM Z. 

Sriya Darsi, Vivek Bachhu and Sahithi Sarva, all seniors at Henrico High School, first found their passion for STEM back when they attended Moody Middle School and participated in the Metro Richmond STEM Fair. 

Congrats to the Henrico High School mock trial team, which placed second at the recent major international “Empire Mock Trial” competition! The Henrico team was the only team from Virginia selected to participate. The students competed in five trials at the end of September and came close to winning the entire competition. Junior Aahil Pallath was named the second best attorney out of all Empire Mock Trial competitors. Empire team members are: Nia Boyd, Kaeo Burgess, Layla Childress, Faith Dixon, Sevashtiana Emile, Aahil Pallath, Rochan Sonti, Shaan Patel, Srinithi Venkatesan, Samyuktha Venkatraman. Want to watch the team’s big day? Go to https://www.facebook.com/EmpireFamily/videos/878181422901113.”This is a great continuation of the success of last year’s team, which was crowned the state champion in March 2021,” said Kristin Walinski, the team’s coach. “Only one of those students is still competing, while the others graduated. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year, but we are way ahead of schedule.” We wouldn’t be where we are without the tremendous support of our teacher-sponsor, Greg Lyndaker, and the school administration, including Rob Welch and Karin Castillo-Rose.” You can also find out more about the competition at https://empiremocktrial.org/. Empire Mock Trial aims to educate students by giving them the opportunity to:- Acquire knowledge and build skills fundamental to citizenship.- Learn about the inner workings of the legal system and bedrock Constitutional principles, such as due process and the presumption of innocence.- Learn how to separate fact from opinion and how to craft a compelling argument.- Study pressing issues of our time and consider how our laws interact with them, such as white nationalism and police brutality.- Learn how to speak publicly, think critically, argue extemporaneously and collaborate effectively by preparing and litigating their case.

Tonight, 10/6, we hold two information meeting for parents of HHS IB students and HHS parents who are interested in their child participating in IB. If you missed it, here are the presentations:

MYP

DP/CP

Tonight, October 4, is the first of three HCPS Specialty Center Info Sessions. These sessions will be virtual this year. You can find the links to attend at https://henricoschools.us/specialty-centers/, where they will be posted today. The event is designed to first give you an overall understanding of the application process and introduce all the centers. After this opening session, students and parents may attend three 15-minute “break out” sessions to learn more about those centers. Obviously, there are more than three centers, so you may also want to attend the two additional sessions on Wednesday, October 13, and Wednesday, October 20.

Learn about Henrico HS IB and JR Tucker HS IB:

To learn more about Henrico HS and any other center, please attend our Open House. HHS IB Open House is Monday, November 1 at 7 pm.

Tariq is now a junior DP course student, but he has this to say about his MYP Personal Project and the impact doing it had on his life: “I actually did my personal project that I made freshman year.  Which was creating a community garden to support communities in poverty that have access to organic produce. We have donated over 30 pounds of food thus far. Here are some pictures of the garden and some of the volunteers that helped my vision come to life. This garden was also created in a low income community. I want to thank Ms.Biddle because I did this in covid and I felt like I would not have had the power to do this without the work my freshman year in seminar and english with personal project assignments. It felt so good to make an impact and to help feed people especially in trying times that we are in now. I love what I do know and making an impact is a part of me. It was initially just a plan I made on paper for a grade and I turned it into a reality and I wanted to share the finished project with you. PS: on this journey I learned a lot about food security.”

Sriya Darsi, Sahithi Sarva, and Vivek Bachhu started a non profit organization called STEM Z! For the past year they have been working very hard to give students a well rounded insight into STEM. STEM Z currently teaches over 450 students from across the globe and partnered with various organizations! Their main goal is to teach and spread their passion for STEM to others and they hope to make an impact in more students lives! 

Few months ago they have partnered with Henrico 4H for a coding spin club which turned out to be a great success! They also were interviewed by Henrico 4H!

Website: stemzprogram.org

Interview Link: