Filmmakers Impress Judges With Health-Focused Movies
The Hockaday School students Anu Akingbade and Anika Kapoor aim to inspire others through filmmaking and storytelling.
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Schools
Fifth-Grade ‘Mind Masters’ Imagine Way to Eighth Place in Global Finals
A team of Park Cities fifth graders has earned top marks in Destination Imagination’s Global Finals for a recyclable-recreation of the State Fair of Texas — complete with fried root beer, popcorn, a giant corndog, and State Fair icon Big Tex.
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MAPS’ Playhouse ‘More Than Just a Jungle Gym’
Yvette Hightower’s Moody Advanced Professional Studies environmental architecture class at Highland Park High School is closing the academic year by building a playhouse for Dallas CASA’s Parade of Playhouses.
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‘Stressed Out’ Young Poets Earn ‘Jackpot’ of Praise
Beaches or mountains? The young poet opened with a question — exploring in her verses such themes as forbidden love, opposite attraction, and gender contrasts.
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Parents Push for Boone Annexation
A child at Northway Christian Day School in Dallas was choking, and the school called for help. But Dallas emergency dispatch could not be convinced that the church next to Boone Elementary was in the city of Dallas.
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Freshman To Compete in International Science, Engineering Fair
A Highland Park High School freshman has found a way to detect the most prevalent and costly type of hospital-acquired infection before symptoms start. And her method only costs about 40 cents.
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Fashion-Forward Friends Find Way to Swap More Affordably
Ursuline Academy senior Livia Lange aims to make a difference for her fashion-swapping peers with a new resale website, LivToBe.com.
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Students Give ‘Transformative’ Concert at Carnegie Hall
String instrumentalists Vivian Zhou and Reagan Nguyen, still months away from becoming sophomores at The Hockaday School, have already played Carnegie Hall.
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Student Essayists Propose Ways to Make a Difference
After the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (FFVF) Dallas Area Chapter asked North Texas students to tackle that question last year, Highland Park students submitted five of the six winning essays.
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Like Daughter, Like Father
Tchinda Machedjou moved to the United States from Cameroon in Central Africa five years ago, graduated from Hillcrest High School in 2023, and earned a full ride to Harvard.
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Karankawa Descendant Dubs Student ‘Friend Giving Back’
As a fourth grader, SMU history graduate student Tim Seiter became fascinated by the Karankawas, a coastal Indian tribe unique to Texas.
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