Humboldt Student heads to Triple A (Academics, Arts, and Athletics) representing our region in the State Finals! Congratulations!

By Matt Osborne, Athletic Director - Humboldt High School

The Humboldt Athletic Department is happy to announce that Lay Lay has been named the Region 4A winner and will represent our region in the state finals of the Triple-A: Academics, Arts, and Athletics. 

The AAA award recognizes and rewards high school seniors from across the state for their achievements in the classroom, the arts, and athletics. To qualify for the award, students must have a "B" or better grade point average and participate in League-sponsored athletic and fine arts activities. 

The League will be recognizing all Tiple 'A' Finalists at a virtual event where the winners of the state award will be announced. Award finalists and winners will be recognized virtually during the televised Boys and Girls Basketball Championship Games on April 9-10 on KSTC-45.

Lay Lay played tennis, cross-country, and badminton. She has a 4.67 weighted grade point average and will have her associate's degree prior to graduating this June. She was selected for the District All-Honors choir and a member of the Tri-M Honors Society. She is also the Lieutenant Colonel in JROTC and is the Special Projects Officer responsible for organizing the Military Ball.

The Humboldt community is very proud of her achievements and a special thank you to the teachers and coaches who have guided her along the way.

Go Hawks!

Humboldt Athletics - Featured: Wrestling 2021

John Pucci, Assistant Athletic Director - Humboldt High School 

In 2016, The Hawks wrestling team went 0-6 throughout conference play, with little to no team pride. Today, your Hawks wrestlers are tied with Highland Park for first place in the conference and are firing on all cylinders. Even without fans, the match on Wednesday night against Central and Harding was electric. The Hawks made short work of Central, keeping them scoreless throughout the entire meet; an impressive feat. The highlight of the match came during the heavyweight bout, as the first-year wrestler, Sam Smith went up against what appeared to be the best wrestler on Central’s roster. Sam battled, and was able to secure his first-ever pin! The Hawks then went on to wrestle the much stronger Harding team, which was a much tighter match. While the Hawks led for most of the night, Harding refused to go away. Senior Poh Say did his best against one of the top wrestlers in the conference, Miles Lee of Harding high school, and managed not to get pined. This seemed to be a turning point in the evening, as it was followed by three straight pins from Crown Htoo, Tha Gay, and Hser Ku Htoo. The three pins gave the Hawks 18 quick points, and the Knights were never able to recover. Your Hawks now await a showdown on March 6th with Highland Park to determine the conference champion. If the Hawks are successful, it will be the first conference championship for Humboldt Wrestling since 1989. An incredible thank you is warranted to Head Coach Brad Novacheck who has not only turned the program around but turned it into a conference powerhouse. Go win that title Hawks!

Boys Basketball 

The Boys basketball team returns to action after a short COVID19 related delay this Saturday at home against Washington. The Hawks are still very much in the hunt for the conference title, and a win on Saturday will put them in a tie with Central for first place in the conference. Good luck to coach Garcia and the Boys Basketball team! 

Girls Basketball 

The Girls Basketball team currently sits in third place in the conference trailing Central by only a game. They defeated Washington on Thursday night. The Hawks are back in action on Monday night against the first place Como Park Cougars and have the opportunity to be the only team in the conference to beat them. 

Boys Swimming 

The boys swimming team ends their regular season tonight, Friday 2/26/21 against Como Park. A Big Shout out is deserved for Coach Gill, who has kept her team competing and having fun throughout a tough year for the Hawks. Thank you, Coach Gill!

Why there should be more Teachers of Color in our Schools

By Chenoa S. (Grade 9 Advisory Journalism Class) 

“I’m in 9th grade and I’ve only had 3 Black teachers; this is unacceptable because cultures connect when learning. 

(Video: Mr. Marvin Sims, Founder of STRIPES University - 100 percent college acceptance rate for students of color that participated in his MN program.)

St. Paul, Minn...Increasing the percentage of teachers of color in the workforce is not just important and beneficial for students of color. Students of all racial backgrounds can benefit from a diverse teacher workforce that represents the nation's overall demographics. Because the vast majority of American social networks are made up exclusively, or nearly exclusively Of people of the same race or ethnic background, many children and adults miss out on opportunities to interact with people of other races. 

Desegregation exists in the teaching profession as well. In 40% of US schools, there are no teachers of color on staff. As a result white students and teachers in the schools may miss opportunities to question assumptions about race, class, and privilege that they might encounter in their communities and to break down stereotypes about people of color. Certainly, it is not the responsibility of teachers of colors to facilitate Conversations about race and disapproval assumptions, but greater diversity within the teaching profession supports the overall effort. Increasing teacher diversity is an important aspect of improving educational equity for all students especially for students of color. Another important aspect of quality education is ensuring that teachers have the knowledge and skill to provide excellent instruction, which can be accomplished in part by more carefully selecting who becomes a teacher and how that person achieves that role. 

Personally, I’ve only had about three (3) teachers of color which is really unfortunate because we need to feel that personal connection to one another, not saying that it’s a problem that we have white teachers but it would be really helpful for us to have more teachers of color. I feel like if we had more teachers of color so much stuff would be different, like the way we think about school and getting an education.

Works Cited in this article 

There Aren't Enough Black Teachers in the US — and We Desperately Need to Change That

Here's why Black teachers are essential. 

Humboldt Basketball player makes History - 1000-points! Congratulations!

"Brian scored 15 points in the game last night to bring his career total to 1,007. Brian is now the leading scorer in school history for boys' basketball!"

By Mr. Matt Osborne - Athletic Director HHS

St. Paul, Minn...This was a game Brian Williams, Jr. will remember for his entire life. Brian surpassed the 1,000-point mark with a free throw (picture attached) in the first half, but his memorable night was far from over.

...with Humboldt trailing Highland Park 87-86 with 10 seconds remaining in the game, Brian dribbled the ball down the court and was fouled while driving to the basket with 1.6 seconds left on the clock.

He now had two free throws to either tie, win, or lose the game. Most players would crack under the pressure, but not Brian. Brian stepped up to the free-throw line and made BOTH free throws! Highland Park heaved a half-court shot as time expired and missed. Hawks win 88-87! 

Brian scored 15 points in the game last night to bring his career total to 1,007. Brian is now the leading scorer in school history for boys' basketball!

(Photos Credit: Ms. Martinez)

Humboldt Boys Basketball Player on the way to 1000 career points!

By Matt Osborne, Athletic Director HHS

Brian Williams Jr. is eight points away from scoring 1,000 points in his basketball career at Humboldt. This is a very significant milestone for any player to reach and most do not get there. Please tune in to the boys' games this week to see a great accomplishment from one of our Hawks. 

Tuesday, February 9th at 7:00 vs. Highland Park

Thursday, February 11th at 7:00 vs Harding

Link to stream games

Go Hawks!

Humboldt High School Afternoon Help Sessions for Students (Google Meeting Codes and Subjects)

Humboldt High School Quarter 3 Schedule (All Students)

 

Trending video of Daw Khing Hnin Wai, PE teacher with a background of the Military trucks during the Military take over in Myanmar

 By Daw Khine Hnin Wai

တေယာက္ျဖဴရင္ အားလုံး လိုက္ျဖဴ 

တေယာက္မဲရင္ အားလုံး လိုက္မဲ 

တေယာက္ဆဲရင္ အားလုံးလိုက္ဆဲတတ္တဲ့ အခ်ိဳ့ေသာသူမ်ားအတြက္ပါ

Accထဲက သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကေတာ့ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ ကေနမွန္း သိၿပီးသားပါ ဘာမွမသိဘဲ captionအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေရးတင္ၿပီး

ဆဲေနၾကတဲ့ Accပိုင္ရွင္မ်ားကိုရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္

ဘယ္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းကိုမွ ေလွာင္ေျပာင္လိုစိတ္နဲ႔ သြားကခဲ့တာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး ဆယ္လီျဖစ္ခ်င္လို့ သြားကခဲ့တာလည္းမဟုတ္ပါဘူး Fitness Dance ၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ အရင္ႏွစ္ ၁၁လပိုင္းေလာက္တည္းက ဒီေနရာမွာ အျမဲသြားကေနက်ပါ ေအာက္မွာ videoေလးေတြတင္ေပးထားပါတယ္

မနက္ကလည္း အိပ္ရာထထခ်င္း ပုံမွန္ပဲသြားကျဖစ္တာပါ

ေနျပည္ေတာ္ဆိုသည္မွာ အျမဲ လူႀကီးလမ္းေၾကာင္းရွိေနေတာ့ သမရိုးက်ပဲထင္ၿပီး ဆက္ကေနတာပါ

ဒီေလာက္ထိျဖစ္သြားမယ္မထင္လို့ တင္လိုက္တာပါ

တာဝန္က်တဲ့ အခ်ိဳ့လုံျခဳံေရးေတြဆို လာကေနက်မို့ခင္ေတာင္ခင္ေနပါၿပီ

ကို့ဘာသာေအးေအးေဆးေဆးေနၿပီး ကို့အလုပ္ကိုယ္ပဲလုပ္တဲ့သူမို့ ကို့ကိုဆဲဆိုေနၾကတာစိတ္မေကာင္းလို့ တင္လိုက္တာပါ ေက်းဇူးျပဳၿပီး မနက္ကvideo fileကိုလည္း Captionေတြေလ်ာက္တပ္ၿပီး မတင္ၾကပါနဲ႔ရွင္

အားလုံးကို ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္

ေဒၚခိုင္ႏွင္းေဝ

အလယ္တန္းျပ (ကာယပညာ)

Translation:

If one is white, everyone is white.

If one is black, everyone will like it.

For some people who curse each other.

My friends in my account already know that they are from the competition. I wrote different caption without knowing anything.

I aim to the acc owners who are scolding.

I didn't dance to any organization with a joke. I didn't dance because I wanted to be a celelly. I always go here for the Fitness Dance competition since last 11 months. I posted videos below.

The morning is going to be normal as soon as I wake up

Naypyitaw means there is always an adult path, so I think it is uncomfortable and keep dancing.

I posted it because I didn't think it would happen.

Some responsible security are close to me.

I posted it because I am relaxing myself and do my own business. 

Thank you all

Daw Khine Hnin Wai

Middle school (physical education)

Macalester's MiTY summer program

Attempting to set up an informational advisory for students taking accelerated or CIS classes in emerging grades 8 through 12 for 2021/2022. This informational session will outline Macalester's MiTY summer program, which will be offered both in-person and online during 2021. This is an amazing opportunity for students to continue their education during the summer and investigate other topics of interest. The program has full scholarships for students to take at least one of the summer session courses.

Read more here: https://mity.org