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Online Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open

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Prospect's URise students swing into action for Sunrise Lake Outdoor Education Center

In a world with ever-increasing speed, immediacy and instant gratification, the value of the process, working towards a goal over a long period of time, can get lost. For students who have spent most of their lives living and working at a breakneck pace, many do not get the opportunity to learn the payoff that comes with patience.

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Six seniors honored with Calisch arts awards

Six graduating seniors were named the 2024 recipients of High School District 214’s annual Calisch Awards. This year’s honorees represent passion, talent and leadership in band, dance, orchestra, theater, visual arts and vocal music across District 214’s schools.

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Keeping it positive: WHS event puts new twist on traditional science fair

Combine the time-tested science fair with a contemporary focus on societal benefit and what do you get? Wheeling High School’s innovative and popular Positive Impact Symposium. By the numbers, the Symposium recently drew more than 65 original student research projects from nine schools as it marked its 11th anniversary.

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Hersey computer science students develop opportunities for classmates

Alex Strugacz is heading to Cornell University this fall; Miguel Aenlle to the University of Illinois. After that … who knows, other than onward and upward? There’s no hyperbole in saying that the sky truly could be the limit for two John Hersey High School seniors who already have boldly gone where no students before them have gone.

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District 214 celebrates inaugural Youth Apprenticeship week

District 214 is all about helping students discover their future. Emily Sohn epitomizes the realization of this mission. The John Hersey High School senior found her calling through a manufacturing youth apprenticeship.

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Elk Grove High School Japanese Exchange Program Celebrates 35 Years

EGHS has provided students with incredible cross-cultural experiences for 35 years.

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Wheeling robotics students show off DJ robot

Wheeling High School students are pushing the boundaries of robotics education. They created a DJ robot and showed it off at Automate, the world's largest robotics conference held in downtown Chicago.

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