Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

The Hays High forensics team has been competing at NSDA for over 50 years. The national tournament will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. in the middle of June.

Forensics to compete at national tournament in June

Allison Hillebrand, Staff Reporter March 27, 2018

Forensics and debate students have the opportunity to compete in the NSDA (National Speech and Debate Association), originally named National Forensics League. “In the recent past, they changed from...

Posters from previous extra credit assignments done by FST students last year.

FST students participate in unique extra credit opportunity

Rebekah Porter, Staff Reporter March 16, 2018

Math instructor Erin Deenihan turned her students into historians for a FST extra credit opportunity. Students enrolled in Deenihan’s FST class second semester have the option of learning about different...

Juniors and seniors will vote for the candidate they want to be crowned royalty the week of the dance. The king and queen will be announced at the dance on April 13.

Teachers select prom candidates

Amiyah Gonzalez, Assistant Editor March 15, 2018

This year's prom candidates have been announced. The candidates are as follows; Prom queen candidates; Savannah Bieker, Analyse Claude, Tara Hertel, Abby Kennemer, Sara Rohleder, Kaitlyn Schaben Prom...

Members of the cheer team pose for a picture with their coaches during the banquet. The banquet was held in the cafeteria on March 13.

Cheerleaders attend end-of-season banquet

Alicia Feyerherm, Staff Reporter March 15, 2018

The annual cheer banquet was held on March 13 at 6:00 p.m. Cheerleaders celebrated the end of the season by getting together, eating food, reminiscing about the season and receiving awards. Some...

Senior Lisa Schoenberger and Principal Martin Straub look over the handout for the Neighborhood Project. The project was put together by a committee with the intent to bring together members of our community.

Students participate in meetings with community members, push plans forward for community improvement

Isabelle Braun, Online Editor March 12, 2018

The third Strategic Doing meeting took place on March, 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Robbins Center. During this meeting, participants discussed plans for future projects they planned to take on. Three high...

A drivers education meeting was held on March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Hays High cafeteria.

190 students sign up to participate in driver’s education course

Allison Hillebrand, Staff Reporter March 11, 2018

A driver’s education course is required for a person with the intent to receive their permit and be allowed to drive before the age of 16. “Driver’s education is where we take kids, who may have...

Sophomore Hanna Dannar works on her writing assignment for Latin II.

Latin students face crucial test

Rebekah Porter, Staff Reporter March 9, 2018

During the week before Spring Break, Latin students all over the world will take the National Latin Exam to test how much Latin they have learned during their studies. “The National Latin Exam is...

FFA competed in a poultry and entomology competition on March 5. It was held at Hays High.

FFA competes in poultry, entomology competition

Anna Brull, Staff Reporter March 9, 2018

The FFA team competed in a poultry judgg competition on March 5. The competition was held at Hays High. The results are as followed: #2 Poultry Green Hand Individual: Hays placed fourth overall. Freshman...

Everyone in the picture above qualified for state competition.

Journalism students qualify for state competition

Amiyah Gonzalez, Assistant Editor March 9, 2018

After competing in both digital and on-site regional competition at Fort Hays State University on Feb. 22, qualifiers for state journalism have been announced. According to journalism adviser Bill Gasper,...

Thirty-Five students were granted scholarships this last week from the Hansen Foundation. If renewed for their full amount, these scholarships total $502,000.

Students receive over half a million dollars in scholarships from Hansen Foundation

Dawson Rooney, Staff Reporter March 9, 2018

Last week 35 students from or affiliated with Hays High received Dane Hansen Scholarships. These students were required to take a test to qualify for the scholarship as well as interview to receive it....

The Kansas State Assessments are a government mandated evaluation of students.

State Assessments to begin soon

Dawson Rooney, Staff Reporter March 8, 2018

On Monday, March 12, State Assessment testing begins with sophomore Math Assessments. Students will report to their academies on that day and there will be extended academy. The State Assessments will...

Junior Matthew Fross works on the welding portion of  the competition.

Junior places first in welding competition

Hanna Dannar, Staff Reporter March 7, 2018

Four students from the Welding class competed in GMAW on March 2nd in Beloit. The four who competed were seniors Keaton Augustine, Mikey Schmidt, Jacob Nelson and junior Matthew Fross. “The students...

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