HOPE – There were multiple bright spots Nov. 18 in the typically business-like atmosphere of the monthly session of the Hope Public Schools Board as student ideas and successes were highlighted in campus proposals, cross country athletics, ROTC, and robotics.
\r\n“A lot of good things have happened with a lot of good teachers and students,” HPS Superintendent Dr. Bobby Hart said.\r\n
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\r\nHope Academy of Public Service students Lydia Bobo, Connor Moore, and Brady Rhodes presented a proposal developed by HAPS EAST program students for construction of a multiple-use outdoor court.\r\n
\r\nThe students presented a video which pointed out the need for an outdoor activity space for organized physical education purposes that include a half-court basketball area, regulation volleyball court, and curtained archery range.\r\n
\r\nDr. Hart said the HAPS students approached him about the idea and he asked them to develop a proposal for presentation to the board. The students enlisted guidance from community partners Bobo and Bain Construction and Ronald Stout and provided estimated costs for the area with a half-court basketball goal, removable volleyball net and poles, and five-lane curtained archery range. Estimates ranged from $3,600 for a 37x42-foot area to $11,770 for a 60x90-foot area, based upon the students’ research.\r\n
\r\nHAPS Principal Dr. Carol Ann Duke said New Millennium Building Systems tentatively has agreed to donate materials and labor to cover the area for inclement weather usage.\r\n
\r\nHart recommended the board take the plan under advisement, pending his discussion with the community partners regarding their participation.\r\n
\r\nHAPS students Priscilla Moreno and Amber Cisneros also provided board members with information regarding the collection of photographs stored at the former Edith Brown Elementary School into a digital archive, and the update of the HAPS campus emergency evacuation floorplan.\r\n
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