Daily Announcements Tuesday 10-1-24

“P”RIDE“L”EADERSHIP-“A”TTITUDE-“I”NTEGRITY-“D”ETERMINATION

Announcements:

• Reminder:  Students must be in good standing to attend Highland events.  Students may be denied entry to games if they have discipline or attendance issues. 

• Who's still in the game?  Roshambo is all week long! Remember you must have at least 5 white beads before you can challenge a teacher. Gold beads are worth more!  If you lose your beads, you can buy more with 5 PLAID points in Ms. Nelson's room 4-PF.  The people with the most beads on Friday will win prizes - come by the Activities Office at lunch to see if you won!

• Scots! Homecoming is next week!  We will be celebrating Scotty's Year in a Week!  Wednesday is Club Rush Day and Homecoming Court voting, Thursday is Food Sale Day, Friday is our Homecoming Rally and football game and Saturday is our Homecoming Dance in the gym.  We will also be having dress up days all week! Let's Goooooooo!!

• Students - You must have your school ID to do transactions at the Finance Office.  IF you don't have your ID yet, please go by the library to pick it up before school, lunch or after school.  If you lost yours, go by the library to take an ID picture.  

• Breast Cancer Awareness month is right around the corner, and if you would like to support the Lady Scots Volleyball Program, buy a t-shirt in support of the cause by going to the online student store, which can be found on the Highland High School website under "campus life" Shirts are $20."

Club News:

• Hispanic Heritage Fact of the day: Did you know that El Salvador’s national dish is pupusa, a delicious pocket of corn flour filled with refried beans, pork, and cheese. Pupusas have been popular in Washington, D.C., since the 1980s and in 2019, 6 November was declared the day of the pupusa.

• Good morning, Scots! It’s time for AVID’s College of the Week. This week our school is UC San Diego! Fact 1: UC San Diego recently rose to No.3 among public U.S. Universities and No.18 worldwide! Fact 2: UCSD is built on top of two former military bases, Camp Mathews and Camp Callan. Fact 3: UCSD’s selective majors include the School of Biological Sciences, Data Science, Public Health, and all majors in the Jacobs School of Engineering.