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New Baseball Field at Highlands Latin School

Highlands Latin hosted its first baseball game April 12th on our new field at Spring Meadows.   The team played well, and it was a beautiful spring day for a baseball game.  Construction of this field involved hauling in nearly 1000 truck loads of fill dirt, blasting hundreds of yards of rock into a hillside, and building back a stone amphitheater.  The […]

Highlands Latin 12th Grade Multicopter Competition

Objective: Build a multicopter from individual components using a programmable board (e.g. arduino) and complete a series of tasks for points. The team with the most points wins. Each team of 12th graders will receive an $850 budget to purchase components for constructing a multicopter. Starting with a DIY kit such as 3DR-Y6 from 3drobotics.com or […]

HLS 12th Grade Multicopter Competition

Highlands Latin 12th Grade Multicopter Competition   Objective: Build a multicopter from individual components using a programmable board (e.g. arduino) and complete a series of tasks for points. The team with the most points wins. Each team of 12th graders will receive an $850 budget to purchase components for constructing a multicopter. Starting with a DIY […]

Twenty-Eight Students Recite Horatius at the Bridge in 2014

Twenty-Eight HLS Sixth Graders Recited all 70 Stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Sixth graders at Highlands Latin School learn 24 stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Those students seeking Horatius-like glory volunteer to memorize all 70 stanzas, a task involving months of daily practice and great perseverance. This year 28 students rose to the challenge and […]

Twenty-Eight Highlands Latin Students Recite Horatius at the Bridge

Twenty-Eight HLS Sixth Graders Recited all 70 Stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Sixth graders at Highlands Latin School learn 24 stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Those students seeking Horatius-like glory volunteer to memorize all 70 stanzas, a task involving months of daily practice and great perseverance. This year 28 students rose to the challenge and […]

National Merit Program

Why Study Latin? 7 out of 16 Highlands Latin Seniors Recognized in National Merit Scholarship Competition A record 7 out of 16 Highlands Latin seniors were just recognized in the National Merit Scholarship Competition (6 Semifinalists and 1 Commended Student).  Semifinalists represent the top 1% of college-bound seniors. The odds of this just happening by chance are about 1 in 300,000,000.  (See the Insider Louisville feature article about this […]

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