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• HSEHS Student Wins ‘Share Your Adventure’ Video Contest

  October 12, 2011 / Local News

  Dan Resler, Hamilton Southeastern High School senior and staff member of the HSETV broadcast journalism class, won the “Share Your Adventure” video contest sponsored by YouTube, Lonely Planet and Intel September 26. The video contest entailed making a travel video blog about a recent trip. The video Resler submitted two months earlier, entitled “On Nashville…,” detailed Resler’s trip to Nashville, Indiana, this summer and his observations while in the town. His winning video was first named one of the top [...]

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  Seniors Earn National Merit Honors, Possible Scholarships

  October 5, 2011 / School News

  Thirteen seniors from across the HSE district performed well enough on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to be National Merit Semifinalists or National Achievement Scholarship Program Semifinalists. Both programs recognize students with elite performances. FHS National Merit Semifinalists are Jennifer Funk, Paul Pratt, Jacob Ryan and Amanda Wiesler. HSEHS National Merit Semifinalists include Collin Baker, Jacob Crell, Hannah Doherty, Alyson Faultless, Sawyer Hitchcock, Kristie Hsu, Alex Nelson, Mike Young. Chase Williams is a National Achievement Scholarship Semifinalist. [...]

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  Geist Elementary Students Celebrate World Milk Day

  October 5, 2011 / Local News

  Geist Elementary celebrated World Milk Day Sept. 28 by building a cow out of milk cartons, decorating the cafe in milk cartons and having a “build the tallest tower” of milk cartons. Students welcomed a special visitor “Lindsay” who came dressed as a cow to help with the fun. Prizes, a milk product of course, was ice cream.

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  A Haunting Good Time Like No Other

  September 29, 2011 / Local News

  If you’re looking for a good scare on Halloween, there’s a new haunted house in town. But be warned, they take their scares seriously. The Corpse Manor opens this month in the Post Road Recreation Center just south of Pendleton Pike. But this is more than a haunted house put together just for Halloween. This is a professional theatrical production featuring real actors and actresses working for one common goal — to SCARE you. There are three haunted attractions in [...]

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  It’s a Birthday Party, Kids!

  September 26, 2011 / Local News

  It used to be that a simple, homemade birthday cake and a few token streamers constituted a successful kid’s birthday party. Throw in a handful of friends and a donkey without a tail, and you were done. Today? Not so much. Birthday parties for children have been elevated to an entirely different level, with hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars being spent to celebrate this annual event. What’s a parent to do? “Plan ahead,” says Heather Lapham Kuhn, events concierge [...]

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  Homes of the Brave: Fishers Fire Dept. Station 94

  June 29, 2011 / Featured

  It’s hard not to think of the children’s classic storybook, “The Little Engine That Could,” when considering Fishers Fire Department Station 94, located at 10701 Cumberland Road. After all, it’s home to the namesake Fire Engine 94, which has been dubbed “The busiest fire truck in Fishers.”

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• Fishers Police Department Announces 2011 Teen Academy

  May 9, 2011 / Crime Watch

  The Fishers Police Department is teaming up with the Fishers YMCA Teen Center to reach out to the teens of Fishers. The 11th annual Fishers Police Department Teen Academy will be held at the YMCA Teen Center July 18th through July 22nd 2011. The academy is one week of law enforcement type training that will allow teens ages 13-17 to better understand how law enforcement works. The academy will also allow teens to get to know several officers. Each day [...]

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  FHS, HSEHS students winners in Computer Science Day contests

  March 23, 2011 / School News

  Computer Programming students from Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern High School took part in Computer Science Day activities at IUPUI March 18. The day focused on careers in technology and ended with a team competition in the fields of web programming, traditional programming and game programming and design. A total of seven high schools and over 100 students took part in the events. Jacob Ryan from Fishers High School placed first in the web programming contest, and Hamilton Southeastern [...]

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• Fishers Preschool Looking For New Home

  March 15, 2011 / School News

  We’ve all heard the adage, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But in this age where families are spread across the country, where economic hardships force parents to spend more time at work, and a sense of community is rapidly declining, where can a village be found? Since 1996, Hamilton County families have been able to rely on a welcoming village at Fishers Pointe Cooperative Preschool (FPCP). FPCP was started by eight families whose shared goal was to [...]

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  Fishers Spell Bowl Team takes seventh in state competition

  November 17, 2009 / Featured, School News

  On November 14, the Fishers High School Spell Bowl Team traveled to Purdue to compete in the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl State Finals.  The team earned a score of 75 words spelled correctly out of 90, placing the team seventh in the State in Class 1 competition. Students who spelled their nine words perfectly were Yaniv Smukler and Erin Van Wesenbeeck.  Raleigh Daniel, James Knight, Melissa Riggio, Sam Smith and Zeke Willey were near perfect spellers, missing only one word.  [...]

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