Important News

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states working together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers. These high-quality, computer-based K-12 assessments in mathematics and English language arts (ELA)/literacy give schools, teachers, students, and parents better information on…

Incredible HAWKS robotics event this weekend!!! Friday and Saturday: playing 3 on 3 STRONGHOLD FIRST Robotics. We have a qualifier event at South River High (Edgewater) to participate in regionals. Check out the Incredible Hawk The alliance partners will be engaged in a battle to defeat barriers and flinging boulders at towers. We may bump a few bots along the…

BRAVO to Mr. Blackman and the River Hill Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble for their performances at the 2016 Howard County Band Assessment. Both ensembles earned all “excellent” and “superior” ratings, and received adjudicators’ comments such as “You play with musical maturity well beyond your years,” “Very, very fine tone production, intonation, and confidence,” “A highly spirited, yet delicate performance,”…

The River Hill High School Concert Choir and Chamber Choir accompanied by their director, Katie Geiger, recently participated in the county-wide choral assessment and performed beautifully. Each group earned Excellent and Superior ratings from all three adjudicators and near perfect scores in the sight reading room. We extend a special congratulations to the Chamber Choir students who qualified to perform…

Congratulations to Sydney Poindexter for being named John Coleman February Girl's Basketball Player of the Month. Sydney will be honored and recognized, along with her coach, Coach Waters, at the River Hill Jim Coleman Honda dealership. Click here to read the Baltimore Sun article. Go Hawks!

The “ Hawk Mad-ness” volleyball tournament on Sunday, March 20 has been cancelled. Contact Janet Rohner ( jmrohner@verizon.net) or Adrienne Borkowski ( adrienneborkowski@verizon.net) for more info.

The absolute deadline for registering or making changes to your Advanced Placement Exams for May 2016 is Friday, April 8. At this point students who register need to pay $92.00 per exam plus a one time late fee of $25.00. This registration is only for student who are currently enrolled in a AP course for the 2015-16 school. Please feel…

Do you want to see an acrobatics act, Korean dance group or Bollywood routine? Or are you more of a singer, guitarist or comedy lover? Whatever your interests are, the River Hill Talent Show has something for you! Angel’s Network will be holding the 20th Annual River Hill Talent Show on March 24 at 7 PM, so mark your calendars…

Mr. Cecil, in collaboration with his former student teacher Rachael Hulme, will be presenting at the Society for Photographic Education conference in Las Vegas Nevada on the theme of play and collaboration. The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides and fosters an understanding of photography as a means of diverse creative expression, cultural insight, and…

The Columbia Rotary Club is sponsoring the 36th Robert Davidson Scholar Athlete Awards Program for Howard County high school graduating seniors. Two winning and runner up awards of $2,000 and $1,000 will be given to top male and female scholar athletes. The students will be recognized at our Rotary awards dinner which will be held at Howard Community College on…