Activities

The Associated Student Body of Highlands (ASB) is the largest club of the school because it includes all students who attend Highlands. ASB plans spirit assemblies and dress-up days, promotes anti-bullying, hosts a remembrance day for 9/11, presents Random Acts of Kindness and supports Winter Wishes and number of other activities.

In the spring, ASB runs the elections in which sixth- and seventh-graders vote for a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer for the following school year. 

Read the band syllabus in English

Read the band syllabus in Spanish

The Buddy Club provides opportunities for teens with disabilities to form friendships with teens without disabilities in their school. In addition to providing recreational opportunities, the club's purpose is to bring inclusion for teens with intellectual and developmental disabilities into the general population of their schools.

Monthly activities are planned for all participants in the Tri-Cities area and include socials, movies, bowling and lunches. The "buddies" have the prospect of gaining additional friendships, social skill development and increased independence. The benefits to the "peer buddies

Read about the Drama Club

Leadership class gives ASB officers and other students a chance to plan school activities during the day. The class is offered to seventh and eighth grade students as an elective. Leadership students focus on promoting school spirit and helping students make positive connections to school. The class honors student birthdays, communicates upcoming activities using the ASB bulletin boards, and supports a schoolwide theme each month to promote school unity.

National History Day is an academic contest where students demonstrate critical thinking, reading, writing and inquiry skills through a historical topic related to the annual theme. The historical topics go beyond wars and popular leaders, with students exploring everything from the impact of Starbucks on the coffee industry, to McDonalds and the rise of the fast food industry, to Jackie Robinson and the impact of integrating sports.

Students learn to evaluate sources of information. They begin looking at secondary sources and move to primary sources as they learn how to seek out the most accurate information sources. Students then learn to analyze and interpret the information they research. After their in-depth look, they draw conclusions about the significance of the topic and the impact that it has on the world today and what it means for tomorrow.

Students take all of this information and present it in one of five ways: a paper, an exhibit, a performance, a documentary or a website. Students then compete regionally at the end of February at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. As a bonus in between their competition and the awards ceremony, students are able to get a tour of the campus and learn about college life. The top winners at regionals move on to the state competition at the beginning of May in Seattle.

The top winner in each category at each division level move on to the national competition in June in Baltimore. Along the way, students earn prizes and scholarships. The National History Channel has been known to buy the rights to documentaries that are of exceptional value.   

In the end, all students walk away with life skills of being able to think critically about topics.  They gain writing, reading and thinking skills that will help them be successful in high school, college and beyond.

Please contact the club advisors form ore information or see the club website below.

Read more about National Junior Honor Society

Read the orchestra syllabus in English

Read the orchestra syllabus in Spanish

Science Olympiad is an after-school science club open to students in all three grade levels. Students participate in 23 different research and building projects in order to compete in Science Olympiad at a regional level in Yakima and at a state level in Des Moines (odd years) and in Cheney (even years).

Science Olympiad website

NOTICE: The link above is to an external web or social media site and is not sponsored or endorsed by the Kennewick School District.

Want to experience history or science in a hands-on way? Scottie Adventures has been traveling to Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, etc., since the 2008-09 school year. Our goal is to help students learn about our government and nation through real life encounters. Setting foot on the land where the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, walking into Congress to see where the decisions are made in our government, visiting the National Archives to see our founding documents – they're all priceless and more than you can ever experience from a book.

We make student safety our top priority, and parents are always welcome to attend the trip with us.

We are currently embarking on a Science in Motion adventure. Students will be able to have lunch with an astronaut, go into a simulator to discover what it is like to be a part of space travel, go behind the scenes at Disney and learn the physics behind roller coasters, see Florida’s vegetation and animals in their natural habitat, get up close to alligators, and even participate in more than 100 interactive science exhibits that will spark the imagination at Wonder Works.

Scott Adventure website

NOTICE: The link above is to an external web or social media site and is not sponsored or endorsed by the Kennewick School District.