Registration now open for summer college application workshop

The HPHS Counseling Office is proud to announce its Summer College Application Workshop for the class of 2015. The featured workshops are "Getting Started with the Common Application & the ApplyTexas Application" and "Planning & Writing College Essays and Resumes." Students will only be able to attend one session during each time slot. Both presentations will be available during each of the following four sessions: 9 a.m.-noon Friday, Aug. 1 1-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Aug. 5 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 The workshops will be held in the HPHS Library. Registration is on a "first come, first served" basis. Students will receive confirmation once they have been assigned a seat in the requested session(s). Students can register by completing the "Summer College Application Workshop" survey under the "About Me" tab in their student Naviance account. The registration cannot be accessed through parent accounts. All workshops are free to attend. Please contact the HPHS Counseling office with questions.

'Write Your World' Literary Festival concludes with awards breakfast

The Highland Park Literary Festival honored winners of the 2014 Student Writing Contest and Open Mic Night at its annual awards breakfast April 10. Winners included the following students:   Fiction: First - Sarah Grace Forbes Second - Keely Brown Honorable Mention - Hannah Kubik Creative Nonfiction: First - George Abuhamad Second - Kimberly Sun Honorable Mention - Yingfan (Linda) Du Poetry: First - Chloe Sarfatis Second - Christine Ramjee Honorable Mention - Lindsey Elliott The Lit Fest celebrated "Write Your World" events February 27-28 with a wide range of assemblies and workshops for HPHS students and the larger community. The two-day festival featured award-winning author Mark Salzman, as well as more than twenty poets, playwrights, journalists, storytellers, and songwriters. The weekend culminated with an Open Mic Nite at Half Price Books where more than 50 HPHS students gathered to share poetry, musings, and music. The Literary Festival Awards Breakfast is made possible through the generosity of the family of Warren Mills Hutcheson, who passed away in 2008 following a tragic car accident. The HP Lit Fest thanks the HPHS English faculty, La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas, HP Arts, HPHS PTA, and HPISD families for their support. Planning for the 2015 Festival is already underway. For further information, visit www.hplitfest.com