Seniors Colden Cook and Kyler Isbell took home a $500 check for earning 2nd place in the Allen County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for their Door Doctor business plan. Fellow senior Jaryt Hess won an award for having the Best Executive Summary. A total of 6 HHS students (seniors Cook, Hess, Isbell, Brigg Shannon and juniors Kalyn Baughn and Harper Dye) showed their entrepreneurial skills at the competition today at the Complex. Marmaton Valley High School also competed, taking first and third place.
Humboldt High School student journalists amassed 189 points and a second place finish in the 2025 Kansas Scholastic Press Association 3A/4A Prairie Regional contest.
A total of 48 entries will move on to the state contest.
HHS student journalists who placed at regionals and won awards are:
* Victoria Melendez, Academics Photography, 2nd place
* Leah Carman, Academics Photography, 5th place
* Shelby Shaughnessy, Advertising Design, 2nd place
* Sophia Barlow, Advertising Design, 3rd place
* Brigg Shannon, Advertising Design, 5th place
* Shelby Shaughnessy, Copyediting, 3rd place
* Anna Heisler, Copyediting, 4th place
* Sophia Barlow, Cutline writing, 1st place
* Anna Heisler, Cutline writing, 3rd place
* Cooper Gillespie, Digital Illustration, 1st place
* River Johnson, Digital Illustration, 3rd place
* Cooper Gillespie, Editorial Cartoon, 2nd place
* Lillie Bingham, Editorial Writing, 1st place
* Teygan Ewing, Editorial Writing, 2nd place
* Brystal Hudlin, Feature Writing, 6th place
* Jack Works, Headline Writing & Design, 2nd place
* Addy Borjas, Headline Writing & Design, 3rd place
* Jack Works, Infographic Design, 4th place
* Chanlynn Wrestler, Infographic Design, 5th place
* Cooper Gillespie, Mallory Sinclair and Teygan Ewing, Multimedia Storytelling, 3rd place
* Addy Borjas, Jack Works, Brystal Hudlin and Kamry DeLaTorre, Multimedia Storytelling, 4th place
* Shelby Shaughnessy, News Page Design, 2nd place
* Anna Heisler, News Page Design, 3rd place
* Anna Heisler, News Writing, 6th place
* Addy Borjas, Review Writing, 3rd place
* Lillie Bingham, Review Writing, 4th place
* Anna Heisler, Social Media, 3rd place
* Jo Ellison, Social Media, 4th place
* Teygan Ewing, Sports Action Photography, 2nd place
* Bailey Croisant, Sports Action Photography, 3rd place
* Victoria Melendez, Sports Action Photography, 5th place
* Bailey Croisant, Sports Feature Photography, 3rd place
* Shelby Shaughnessy, Sports Writing, 3rd place
* Brystal Hudlin, Sports Writing, 5th place
* Karoline Covey, Student Life Photography, 2nd place
* Adrian Smoot, Piper Goss, Alexis McCullough and Lizzie Black, Video News, 1st place
* Colden Cook, Brigg Shannon and Layne Ellison, Video PSA, 3rd place
* Karoline Covey, Brystal Hudlin, Kamry DeLaTorre and Leah Carman, Video PSAA, 4th place
* Kyler Isbell and Keith Gomez, Video Sports Promo, 4th place
* Colden Cook, Brigg Shannon and Brody Gunderman, Video Sports Promo, 6th place
* Sophia Barlow, Yearbook Copy Writing, 1st place
* Taevyn Baylor, Yearbook Copy Writing, 2nd place
* Sophia Barlow, Yearbook Design, 1st place
* Victoria Melendez, Yearbook Design, 2nd place
* Shelby Shaughnessy, Yearbook Sports Writing, 2nd place
* Jack Works, Yearbook Sports Writing, 5th place
* Sophia Barlow, Yearbook Theme & Graphics, 1st place
* Victoria Melendez, Yearbook Theme & Graphics, 2nd place
The Cubs finished one point behind first place finisher and 4A school, Bishop Miege Catholic High School, which had 190 points. Girard High School finished in third place with 47 points. Eudora High School had 33 in fourth place while Caney Valley High School scored 28 in fifth place. Sixth place went to Winfield High School (27 points) and Beloit High School finished in 7th place with 4 points.
Congratulations to these amazing and talented HHS student journalists!
Happy Music in our Schools Month! The Pride of Humboldt Music Department would like to thank you all for your support and dedication to us. If you haven't yet, please consider following us on Facebook and Instagram as Pride of Humboldt Music.
Tonight's student section!
PreK enjoyed their new playground and the beautiful weather this week!
6th graders are learning about different types of clouds and their characteristics. What better way to learn than to observe actual clouds.
The journalism awards banquet is about a month away! All journalism students and their families are invited.
Please let Mrs. Phillips know if you are planning to attend by this coming Wednesday. More details will be posted soon.
Physical science students compare different kinds of forces.
Newspaper Jerds working hard at our third work night of the year!!!
We are so excited for our elementary students to experience Body Venture hosted by KSDE tomorrow. We had great help setting up tonight!!
Mrs. Wilkins' Class doing some work outside to get much needed sunshine on this beautiful day!
3rd grade went outside today to do UFLI lessons. Reading our decodables and writing using our spelling patterns is much more fun outdoors!
Students in Culinary Arts learned that "we eat with our eyes first" and discussed different plating techniques to enhance visual appeal. Vote for your favorite! (Part 1)
Students in Culinary Arts learned that "we eat with our eyes first" and discussed different plating techniques to enhance visual appeal. Vote for your favorite! (Part 2)
Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Isbell attended a journalism professional development workshop in Lenexa Monday. It was extremely valuable to connect with other journalism advisers as well as plan for the upcoming school year. Thank you so much, Kansas Scholastic Press Association!
https://www.kspaonline.org/news/2025/02/25/advisers-use-pd-workshop-to-collaborate-on-cte-competencies/
HMS Stuco students attended a leadership training today at Greenbush. They partcipated in multiple activities to help enhance their leadership skills.
Elementary Yearbook Order!
We will have school as usual on Friday, February 21st. We can't wait to see you!
Due to the forecasted extreme cold temperatures, USD 258 will be closed on Thursday, February 20th. April 7th will now be a regular school day.
We are collecting information on families interested in attending the USD 258 Humboldt Daycare beginning in August. If you are interested, please fill out the attached form. More information can be found in the form's description.
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