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: 

Josh Irizarry-Diaz’s personal project for the IBMYP was the Removal of English Ivy, an invasive species from Reedy Creek. He continued working on this project for 21 months and submitted his final report to the BSA Council Conservation Committee in June 2021. He has been awarded the William T. Hornaday Award-Badge. It is an award designed to recognize scouts who undertook and completed truly exceptional conservation projects. It involved 43 volunteers for a total of 358 hours of work. 

Less than 4,000 Hornaday awards have been awarded since the program inception in 1917. To put it in perspective, 61,353 Eagle Rank Awards were earned in 2019 alone, with more than 2.5 million since 1912. Josh been one of them in 2019. 

He will be recognized at the Heart of Virginia Council Annual Recognition Gala on the 26th. I believe he is the first scout in years in our council. 

His family and Henrico HS IB are ecstatic and beyond proud about his accomplishment. Personal projects can be as complex or as simple as the student chooses it to be. 

Richmond Mayor Stoney and Democratic gubernatorial candidate McAulliffe recognize IB senior Alagappan Sellappan for his work in producing computer prototypes in his internship at VCU Computer Science Lab.

We are pleased to announce the official authorization of Henrico High School’s IB Career-related Program (IBCP) by the International Baccalaureate Organization!  This is HCPS’s third IB program, creating a trifecta in conjunction with the IB Middle Years and IB Diploma programs.  The CP is a hybrid program in which students take Diploma Program courses as well as CTE courses, blending academic rigor with life and workplace readiness. Students also participate through the CP core by taking a capstone course, Personal and Professional Skills, and by doing service learning, language study, and creating a reflective project exploring an ethical dilemma in their chosen career pathway. Students who successfully complete the program are awarded certification in their career path and the IBCP Certificate. Beginning in September 2021, Henrico HS will welcome the inaugural IBCP class of juniors who will complete the globally renowned two-year program upon graduation in June 2023. 

We don’t have summer work, per se, but rising sophomores and seniors have programmatic work to do in A&S/CAS and PP/EE. Otherwise, please visit the Summer Review page to the left for more information!

If you missed our “Tour” Monday, 3/23, or need more information, please see below. We are also hosting a second session on Thursday, 3/25, at 3 PM here: Click here to join the meeting. Please join us! 

PowerPoint Presentation: What is an IB Education_Tour

What courses you take in HHS IB, grades 9-12: 20-21FactSheet

AP vs IB: Why IB is Better: 5_IB vs AP

For more information about clubs, colleges, and curriculum, please browse the pages listed in the left column!

As always, please feel free to email Ms. Biddle about any question or concern at plbiddle@henrico.k12.va.us! We are here for you!

HHS class of 2021 has hit the million dollar mark for scholarships ALREADY!! This is going to be a banner year!

We enjoyed our gathering on the 28th. For those who couldn’t stick it out in the wake of technology debacles or who couldn’t make it OR who just want to see it again, here is our presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u-RiQFOWzusK8V6C3jeyUXUfzU2U8DQB/view?usp=sharing. 

Ms. Shaw shares her holiday spirit!!

Sophomore Saynara says:

It symbolizes Christmas to me, I have never had a tree of my own, we always had it in the living room but this Christmas I got one for myself to be more jolly and have more Christmas spirit. The Christmas tree is a very big tradition it symbolizes the beginning of the Christmas season.