HGM in the News
Feeling fortunate to have access to high quality STEM-focused opportunities, North Hollywood High students are working to enable other schools – regardless of zip code – to have access to the same tech-rich resources they enjoy.
Last year, juniors Hansub Kim and and Stephen Ren co-founded Project Magnify, an offshoot of the school’s Science Research Club, aimed at providing students across L.A. Unified with opportunities to excel in science, technology, engineering and math. Read full article
This article lists every semifinalist in California.
Note: HGM has 19 semifinalists = 27% of the class = highest percentage of any program in the state (data separated from the rest of North Hollywood High)
North Hollywood High is again selected to pilot LAUSD's latest improvement, this time offering vegan meal options in the cafeteria at lunch.
By Howard Blum
Russians and Chinese hackers beware.
Americans, breathe a sigh of relief. Students from North Hollywood High have got your back.
Team Togo, consisting of five juniors, just won a national cybersecurity championship, which is joining the Academic Decathlon among the ranks of activities to which really smart high schoolers can devote themselves obsessively — and earn the kind of acclaim that traditionally goes to quarterbacks and point guards.
Schoolwide Pep Rally for Cyber Patriots teams
Hollywood High has captured its second consecutive second-place finish in Duke University’s prestigious Moot Court competition, outscoring 50 others from across the country in the rigorous contest of constitutional law.
Juniors Felix Bulwa and Ben Schall have competed in Moot Court for three years, climbing from a 16th-place finish during their first contest to eighth the following year. In addition to his stellar finish with his teammate, Felix finished ninth nationwide... read more
New tests show the city's magnets have soared far above other schools. Read our guide to what it means and explore a list of how every magnet school scored. . . .
(Note: North Hollywood HGM is the only school with 100% in both English and Math)
Louis Stewart of GO-Biz uses a selfie stick at the inaugural California Cyber Innovation Challenge at Sacramento City College on Wednesday.
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) hosted the inaugural California Cyber Innovation Challenge at Sacramento City College on Wednesday, where eight teams of high school students competed in a series of timed challenges.
Right after graduating from Yale, Aaron saw his company become one of the world's most talked about ed tech startups when it received $4 million in seeding funding from Mark Zuckerberg's Startup: Education and recently raised another $12 million. His program is currently used by many school districts, including LAUSD
Commentary in EdSource
Nearly every middle and high school gives students a voice on campus in some way, but many schools miss the opportunity to make student voices really matter.
Student voice is an area that I’ve been passionate about for a long time. When I was a student at North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles Unified, I participated in several meaningful programs that gave students a real voice in solving problems and helped many students develop leadership capacity (and not just the usual suspects!).
Carnegie Hall announces young musicians selected for inaugural NYO2
Sophomore violist Joel Kim
Two seniors from the Highly Gifted Magnet at North Hollywood High School took second place in Duke University’s annual Moot Court competition, a prestigious national contest that showcases students’ research, writing and debate skills as well as their knowledge of constitutional law.
By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News
North Hollywood High School has done it again.
The school’s Team A won the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s 24th annual Science Bowl Regional Competition in downtown Los Angeles against 24 other schools on Saturday.
The victory marks North Hollywood High School’s 17th regional championship in a competition that uses a game show format to test reflexes and the students’ grasp of advance science, math and technology concepts. The school also won the regional competition last year.
Five San Fernando Valley schools will be fast-tracked under Superintendent Ramon Cortines’ plan to renovate 11 campuses across the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The upgrades will bring additional classroom space, updated technology and the shine of a makeover, with details hammered out later this year in meetings with staff, students and parents. If all goes as planned, the projects should be completed in five years.
North Hollywood High School sits atop Cortines’ list. Built in 1927, the school has grand columns that stretch to wood-framed window panes, neatly tucked below Spanish roof shingles. From Magnolia Boulevard, the campus’ main building appears suited for the campus of an East Coast Ivy League university.
CBS donates $60,000 to North Hollywood HS! This is in support of our outstanding music program, which includes many of the HGM students, and in recognition of our longtime voluntarism in the community. News Video Here.
Altair Maine understands highly gifted students. By age 16, he had graduated college and was in the PhD program at Caltech. He has been teaching at HGM for 15 years.
LA Unified has announced that 22 educators will be honored as 2015-16 Teachers of the Year at a luncheon in September.
To read the rest of the list: scroll down to "LAUSD Names Teachers of the Year"
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — It’s an accomplishment for a high school to have one academic team make the championships.
But three? That’s an honor earned by several hard-working students at North Hollywood High School headed for competitions that could change their lives.
Looking to protect themselves from hackers, some companies are turning to a group of North Hollywood High School students who are national champions in cyber security. The students have their own possible explanation on how Sony Pictures was attacked.
By Jay Matthews
To create the Challenge Index, which I used to rank the high schools below, I took the total number of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests given at a school in 2013 and divided that figure by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June of that year.
[Note: North Hollywood High as a whole (2,850 students) is #14 because HGM data was not separated. If the magnet were separated, it would rank #1.]
