Ms. Soderstrum’s 4th block English I class won the Read2Succeed Contest through Achieve3000. They earned at least a 75% average and completed more than two activities a week for the month of November. Each person in the class …
On Monday, November 25th the Hoover STEM team was invited to attend the IA Governor’s STEM Executive Committee meeting at the Grimes Office Building. Hoover is the only comprehensive high school in the state of Iowa with an …
Hoover Student Council members visited students at Monroe Elementary on November 21st . They read to the students and assisted them with math rotations. They started to make relationships with many of the students and are planning on …
One hundred and seventy-three students who take Advanced Placement classes at DMPS earned AP honors from the College Board, the second most ever recorded by the school district, including eight who attend Hoover High School. Click the headline to read more about this honor and download a list of recipients.
Hoover students enrolled in Mandarin Chinese class participated in a field trip to the downtown Des Moines Chinese Cultural Center of America pavilion on Tuesday, November 5. Hoover exchange teacher Wen Zhao Wang, who launched the Mandarin program …
Hoover is one of the first four recipients in the state of a new $50,000 grant award by the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council in support of advancing education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The award, which will be matched by DMPS, will help Hoover further develop our new STEM Academy. Click the headline to read more.
Congratulations Hoover! Friday night’s 31-15 win over Ottumwa puts the Huskies in the Class 4A football playoffs for the first time in 19 years. Hoover faces Waukee on Wednesday. Game time is 7:00 PM.
The Environmental Club kicked off its first meeting for the 2013-2014 school year! Twenty students were very excited to start “greenifying” Hoover and the community. The big project of the club is to get refillable water bottles for …
Dr. Philip Nelson, a professor emeritus at Purdue University and the 2007 World Food Prize laureate, spoke with STEM students at Hoover High School today. Nelson is recognized as the world’s leading expert on safely storing and shipping commodities. Click the photo to read and more about the unique science lesson at Hoover.
The Simon Estes Foundation presents Iowa Students Care, a program created to involve students across the state of Iowa to assist in the efforts to eliminate malaria in Africa. Simon Estes has recorded a CD titled Save the …
