On December 7th, several Hoover students had the honor of attending the World Food Prize Borlaug Medallion award ceremony. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack received the Norman E. Borlaug Medallion from the World Food Prize Foundation President Kenneth …
On October 28, an 11-person girls-only Hyperstream Team, coordinated through Girl Scouts, visited Drake University for a taste of college life. A recipient of a 2016-17 Scale-Up Award, the Girl Scouts partner with a Drake LEAD 100 class that …
The Iowa School Board Association hosted their 71st Annual convention at the Iowa Events Center on Thursday, November 17th. Our friends at Storey Kenworthy hosted a booth to promote their work with re-designing classrooms. They featured furniture and …
Come and join us on December 12th for an evening of great music from all of the Hoover/Meredith orchestra students grades 6 -12! The fundraising pasta dinner catered by Hy Vee before the concert is to raise money for instruments. …
Hoover Drama presents Singin’ in the Rain, November 10th-12th at 7 pm in the Denis Hildreth Auditorium at Hoover High School. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students, and $4 to anyone with an SAT. Sixty-nine students …
On October 7, 2016, the Hoover Marching band performed a Pink Out program in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. At the game they asked everyone for a donation to help support this cause. With each donation a …
On Friday, September 30th, Page Keely, former President of NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) and the recently retired Senior Science Program Director at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance spent the day with the Hoover High School Science …
Ms. Soderstrum’s Husky Time participated in the Iowa Healthiest State Initiative Walk on Wednesday, October 5. They walked 1 mile around the track and got to see the new scoreboard. Go Huskies!
Congratulations to the 2015-16 Hoover Huskies yearbook staff! The group received a letter from Walsworth Yearbooks praising their “superior examples of coverage, design, photography and copy.” The Hoover Huskies yearbook has been inducted into the Walsworth Gallery of Excellence, and will be used as an example nationwide for other high schools to follow.
The Rotary Club of Des Moines honored two Hoover High grads. The 2016 Police Officer of the Year is Jack “Chip” Beardsley (Class of ’84). Ted Jefferson (Class of ’73) is the Firefighter of the Year. We want to add our congratulations and gratitude to these former Huskies for their dedicated and exceptional careers in public service.
