Important News

The 29th Annual “Champions of Courage” Black History Month Essay Competition is now accepting entries. This competition is open to ALL Maryland students’ grades 6 through 12. The “Champions of Courage” is a showcase for students to salute their personal heroes or mentors that have been positive role models and have inspired them to dream and achieve. Twenty (20) essays…

The Black Student Achievement Program invites you to the College & Career Opportunity Night to be held on Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 5:30pm until 9:00 pm at Long Reach High School located at 6101 Old Dobbin Road, Columbia, MD 21045. Highlights include: College, Career and Entrepreneur Representatives, School Counselor One-on-One 20- minute sessions (please register for this), Marching Band…

Our fall comedy: The Skin of Our Teeth Join us and enjoy this outstanding performation! Dates for our performance include: Sat., Nov. 14 @ 7:00 PM Sun., Nov. 15 @ 3:00 PM Thurs., Nov. 19 @ 10:10 AM (in school performance) Fri.-Sat., Nov. 20-21@ 7:00 PM Perhaps you saw some costumed characters, including the dinosaur and the woolly mammoth in…

BSAP College & Career Opportunities Night: the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Social Experience Thursday, Oct. 22nd from 5:30-9:00pm at Long Reach High School. The College and Career Opportunities Night, previously known as College Information Night, is an annual event that exposes and provides students in grades 8 through 12the opportunity to meet with college, business and entrepreneur recruiters…

The Reflections program, sponsored by National PTA, empowers students to receive positive recognition through the annual artistic contest with competitions at the local, state and national levels. AHS PTSA encourages students to create and submit works of art in six categories: dance, choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photograph and visual arts (which include art forms such as drawing, painting…

Volunteer Requirements: In order to create a consistent process for training parent volunteers on issues of confidentiality, a brief training module had been developed and a certificate of completion is needed before a parent volunteers/chaperones. Both the module and certificate are located on the HCPSS website. Please complete the training and submit the certificate of completion to the school before…

If you did not receive a yearbook, please contact Mr. Mackechnie at cmackechnie@hcpss.org. If you graduated last year, you can pick up your yearbook in the front office during normal school hours.

Underclass Picture Day Sept. 28 and 29

Application & Research Laboratory (ARL) http://arl.hcpss.org/ Students at AHS who attend the ARL need to be aware of the following dates: September 15th: ARL Back to School Night from 6:30-8pm October 22nd: BSAP College and Career Information Night at LRHS from 5:30-8 pm November 11th and January 14th: Information Nights at the ARL from 7-9 pm November 17, 18 &19…

Parents, In an effort to ensure staff members have sufficient time to process first quarter interims in Synergy, the distribution date for interims has been moved from October 1st to October 5th.