Daily Announcements
- There will be an informational meeting for a new group, the Exercise Club, on Tuesday, December 7 after school in Room 294 at 3:10. If you're interested in health and exercise, come on out and be active!
- Come join our Basketball team today (Friday) at 6 p.m. and wear Green in the fight to break down the stigma around mental health. Today will be a Green Out game so wear green in order to show friends, family, and loved ones or simply those you walk past that you care about their mental health. The shirts they will be wearing will be sold next week during all lunch periods for $10.
- It is National World Language Week. The World Language Teachers have put together some trivia questions. If you know the answer, please come to room #145 after school and if you are right, you will receive a modest prize. Today’s question is: Which famous museum in Paris is located in a former train station?
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HC Poetry Club will be hosting Write It out Wednesday on December 8th at 7:30 AM in the library. This will be a mini open mic & a workshop to go. Come prepared to share, to listen, or to write!
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Are you a writer or artist looking for a place to showcase your work? Submit your work to Solstice! Solstice is Hinsdale Central’s art and literary magazine which annually publishes pieces created by students. We accept all mediums of art and all genres of writing. In order to submit: Go to our website, solsticeD86.weebly.com, and fill out the Google form under the Submissions page before February 28 - and you might get to see your work in print!
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Come audition for the winter show! This year, we will be putting on an improv show in partnership with Chicago ComedySportz. ComedySportz is a professional improv company that hosts shows around the country. Students in this show will work with professional actors to learn the art of short form, comedic improv. Do you have trouble memorizing? This is the show for you because everything is made up new every night. Auditions are Tuesday, December 7th in room 216 from 3-6 p.m. There is no need to prepare anything. The audition will be playing a series of improv games and having fun. Questions? Ask Mr. Kostro in room 241. You can find the improv packet with more information at https://docs.google.com/document/d/12IPyaed7kPZaCWnQxfPMbOxqCiU2-oQitMU57A79z-E/edit?usp=sharing
- Any male athlete interested in getting in shape for the upcoming winter & spring track & field seasons, pre-season conditioning will begin this coming Monday, December 6th at 3:15 p.m. Please meet the coaching staff in the student cafeteria.
- CARE Club is pleased to sponsor Angel Comfort Dog for a visit to Central. She will be in the Cafe during all lunch periods on Monday, December 6th to celebrate Meditation Monday.
- The Student Political Union will be hosting DuPage County Chairman Greg Hart as a guest speaker this Friday after school at 3:15 PM in room 163 to speak on campaigning and provide internship and volunteering opportunities. Join the remind by texting @hcpolitic to 810-10.
- Starting Monday, December 6 will be the start of our Spirit/Coping Week. Use this week to check in with one another and talk about mental health! Please participate in the daily themes and by learning and practicing coping strategies. Monday is Mediation Monday so wear your PJ'S!
- Please consider an area child by donating to Joey's Toy Drive. If you bring a toy to the Hinsdale South and Hinsdale Central boy's basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 4th, you get in free!
- ATTENTION SENIORS!! Come on out this Friday for senior only bingo at 6 PM! We’ve got prizes and a chance at winning a prom bid! It is $5 to enter which includes a bingo card. Additional bingo cards are $1 each, and additional raffle tickets are $2 each! We will play up until the start of our Downers Grove home basketball game. So come on out to bingo and then come support our boy’s team.
Character Counts
“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” — Erik Erikson
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