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HHS Student Paul Green Named National Merit Finalist

Hattiesburg High School Senior Paul Green has been named a National Merit Finalist! Over 1.5 million students participated in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, and of those approximately 15,000 (the top ONE PERCENT) were

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announced as Finalists by officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (nmsc). These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered this spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, students must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. Approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

To become a Finalist, a student must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The student and a high school  official must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes the student’s essay and information about the student’s participation and leadership in school and community activities.

  • Paul has performed in the HPSD’s Orchestra since fifth grade where he has served as Concertmaster.
  • For the past year, Paul has served as Concertmaster and soloist for the Southern Mississippi Youth Orchestra.
  • As a member of the HHS Speech and Debate team, he has earned several distinguished awards to include:
    • State Champion- Lincoln-Douglas Debater
    • National Catholic Forensic League- double-octafinalist in L-D Debate
    • State finalist in Original Orating
  • He has given back to his community through volunteer work with the Association for the Rights of Citizens with Disabilities.
  • Paul has been active in the theatre department at HHS as the Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, Light Board and Spotlight Operator, as well as playing the lead role in “The Good Doctor”.
  • He is an Assistant Senior Patrol Leader in the Boy Scouts of American.  He is currently a Life Scout working on Eagle Scout rank.
  • Recipient of the Civitan Citizenship Award in grade 12
  • As a Junior, he was selected as Exchange Youth of the Month
  • Paul has received the Highest GPA Award in grades 8-11 and presently maintains the highest GPA in his class of 261 seniors at HHS.
  • He is leaning toward engineering as his major, but has an interest in physics and music as well.
  • His first choice for college is Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Filed under: Featured, Hattiesburg, K-12, education, Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg High School, high, National Merit Scholarship Corporation, National Merit Scholarship Program, Paul Green, school

Band clinic brings musicians to PRCC

POPLARVILLE – Approximately 230 musicians from 23 South Mississippi schools will be on the Pearl River Community College campus this weekend for the annual PRCC Band Clinic.

The middle and high school students will divide into two bands for rehearsals Friday afternoon and night and again on Saturday. The bands will be presented in concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Olivia Bender Cafeteria in Crosby Hall.

The PRCC Symphonic Band will perform for the students at 6 p.m. Friday, and the PRCC JazzCats will play at 11 a.m. Saturday. Both performances will be in the cafeteria.

Clinicians are Sheily Bell, band director at Dutchtown High School in Giesmar, La., and Anna Schwartz, band director at Ocean Springs Middle School.

The clinic began in the 1950s as the Lumberton Band Clinic and  is the oldest annual clinic in the state. The clinic has been held at PRCC since 1991.

The public is invited to attend the Saturday concert.

Filed under: Arts, K-12, Pearl River, Crosby Hall, education, Pearl River Community College, POPLARVILLE

Poplarville High School Team Places First in Ocean Sciences Bowl

A different type of hurricane warning was in effect when a team of Poplarville High School students blew away its competition in the annual Hurricane Bowl contest at The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) in Ocean Springs, Miss.

Poplarville High School Team A, (left to right) Becky Starke, Justin Williams, Shelby Ramming, coach Elizabeth Jones and Nigel Simmons, took first place at the annual Hurricane Bowl held at The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs. (Not photographed, team member Rob Merrell.) The team heads to Galveston, Texas in April to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. (GCRL photo, Martha Duvall)

Coached by Mel Hall and Elizabeth Jones, Poplarville “Team A” was comprised of captain Justin Williams, Becky Starke, Shelby Ramming, Nigel Simmons and Rob Merrell. The GCRL regional competition is part of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB®), which is a program of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Poplarville winners, as well as winners from 24 other regional sites, will compete at the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in Galveston, Texas, April 29-May 1, 2011.

Each year GCRL’s Marine Education Center plays host to 18 teams of high school students from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Hurricane Bowl is the central Gulf Coast competition and is a rapid-fire, question-and-answer contest focusing on ocean sciences.

Coastal Mississippi teams were big winners in the Hurricane Bowl with Long Beach High School “Team A” earning second place, Bay High School of Bay St. Louis coming in third, Ocean Springs High School taking fourth place, and Long Beach High School “Team B” in fifth place.
Whites Creek High School of Whites Creek, Tenn., took home the Sportsmanship Award.

The Hurricane Bowl, as well as the national competition, includes question-and-answer “buzzer” rounds, team-challenge questions, educational field trips and social activities that encourage interaction among student peers and marine scientists. For more information on the competition or to view sample quiz questions, visit www.nosb.org.

GCRL’s Marine Education Center is the lab’s public education and outreach arm. Located on the Gulf of Mexico, GCRL focuses on sustainable coastal and marine resources, development of new marine technologies and the education of future scientists and citizens. The GCRL is home to the Department of Coastal Sciences, the Marine Education Center, the Center for Fisheries Research and Development and the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center. It is in the university’s School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, College of Science and Technology. More information can be found at www.usm.edu/gcrl.

Filed under: Featured, K-12, USM, GCRL’s Marine Education Center, mississippi, National Ocean Sciences Bowl, Ocean Springs High School, Poplarville High School, Poplarville Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi

PRCC hosts Petal High allied health students

Petal High School seniors enrolled in Allied Health II visited the Pearl River Community College medical laboratory technology program Monday, Feb. 7.

The students toured the lab and got their blood typed.

Petal High School student Channon Kitchens, right, grimaces as Pearl River Community College medical laboratory technology student Meghan Tyner of Petal draws blood for typing. Tyner is a graduate of the Petal allied health program in which Kitchens is enrolled. PRCC Public Relations photo

“I’m thinking about this field, so it’s interesting to see what it would be like,” said Channon Kitchens.

The Petal course includes a medical lab unit, said teacher Karla Hogan.

“I don’t have all the equipment PRCC has so the visit helps our curriculum,” she said.

In addition to drawing and typing blood, the PRCC students showed the visitors slides of diseases they learned to identify and other procedures they will use as professional lab technicians.

To learn more about the PRCC medical laboratory technology program, contact director Evelyn Wallace at601 554-5523 or ewallace@prcc.edu.

Filed under: Featured, Forrest County, K-12, Pearl River, Petal, Channon Kitchens, education, Evelyn Wallace, Karla Hogan, medical laboratory technology program, Pearl River Community College, Petal High School

All Jones County Schools Closed Fri. Feb. 4; Hattiesburg Public Schools and Lamar County OPEN

All Jones County Public Schools are closed today including Laurel Schools.

JCJC has cancelled classes for today.

Headmaster Ronnie Jones at St. John’s Day School in Laurel has announced that classes are cancelled today, Friday, February 4, 2011.

Hattiesburg Public Schools will be OPEN today.

Lamar County Schools are OPEN

Filed under: Breaking News, Ellisville, Featured, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, Jones, Jones County, K-12, Lamar County, Laurel, Oak Grove, Petal, Purvis, Sumrall, education, Forrest County Mississippi, Lamar County Mississippi, laurel, school closings, St. John's Day School

24th Hub City Classic THIS WEEKEND

The HHS Forensics Department will host the 24th Hub City Classic Forensic Tournament this weekend at Hattiesburg High School. The tournament attracts schools from across the country to compete and boasts some of the greatest Speech and Debate programs in the country. The event kicks off on Thursday with the 4th Annual Soup and Scenes event. Attendees to that event will be treated to live music, a cajun dinner and performances by some Hattiesburg High’s best Forensics Students.

For more information about the Hub City Classic and the Soup and Scenes event, including dates, times and a list of participating schools, please click here or visit www.hattiesburgpsd.com.

Filed under: Arts, Hattiesburg, K-12, education, Hattiesburg High School, HHS Forensics Department

Local Optimist Club Donates Reading Material to Children’s Center

As part of a community service project, representatives from the Hattiesburg Noonday Optimist Club delivered a basket of books to the Children’s Center for Communication and Development at The University of Southern Mississippi on Monday, Jan. 31.

Members of the Hattiesburg Noonday Optimist Club presented a basket of books to the Children’s Center for Communication and Development on Monday, Jan. 31. Pictured, from left to right: Jeff Evans, past-president of the local Optimist Club; Lori Burgess, speech-language pathologist at the Children’s Center; BreAnn Russell, speech-language pathologist at the Children’s Center and Jennifer Ducksworth, president of the local Optimist Club. (Office of University Communications photo by Van Arnold)

Jennifer Ducksworth, president of the local Optimist Club, noted that the contribution followed the organization’s theme for 2011: “Bringing out the best in kids.”

“We are constantly looking for ways in which we can enhance the lives of children in the Hattiesburg area,” said Ducksworth. “This is our small way of giving back to the community.”

The Children’s Center, a United Way agency, opened its doors in 1974 and currently serves approximately 80 children from the South Mississippi area. The center provides an interdisciplinary team approach to the assessment and treatment of communicatively and developmentally delayed children (birth to 5 years).

For more information about the Children’s Center call 601.266.5222 or visit www.usm.edu/childrenscenter/index.htm

To learn more about the Hattiesburg Noonday Optimist Club, contact Ducksworth at 601.266.6189.

Filed under: Featured, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, K-12, USM, Children’s Center, Children’s Center for Communication and Development, Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg Mississippi, Hattiesburg Noonday Optimist Club, Jennifer Ducksworth, Optimist Club, Optimist International, United Way, University of Southern Mississippi

High School Students Participate in Polymer Science Day at Southern Miss

More than 100 high school students from across the state participated in the second annual Polymer Science High School Day Jan. 28 at The University of Southern Mississippi, hosted by its School of Polymers and High Performance Materials.

Andrew Jones, a University of Southern Mississippi polymer science undergraduate student from Hattiesburg, discusses how molten polymer is pushed through an extrusion device and then cooled for injection molding in materials production during a demonstration tour at the second annual High School Polymer Science Day at the university. (University Communications photo by David Tisdale)

Designed to encourage interest in science among high school students, the day’s events included a written examination and a quiz bowl giving students a chance to test their knowledge about polymer science. Other activities included demonstrations of experiments using polymer materials; problem solving activities; and tours of the university’s internationally renowned polymer science research facilities, where they interacted with Southern Miss polymer science faculty and students.

Filed under: Featured, Hattiesburg, K-12, USM, Polymers, School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi

PCS Dismisses Early Today

Because of the impending severe weather threat this afternoon (Emergency Management says it is supposed to be in our area sometime between 3 and 7 pm), both the elementary and secondary campuses will be dismissing early.  K5 4th grade will dismiss at 1:30;  5th and 6th grades will dismiss at 1:45; and the high school campus will dismiss at 2:00.  THERE WILL BE NO EXTENDED CARE TODAY!!!

All after school practices are cancelled for the day.  A decision on the varsity basketball games at Hancock will be made later in the afternoon.

Priority registration is extended through tomorrow (Wednesday, 2/2).

Filed under: Featured, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, K-12, early release, education, pcs, Weather