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Students & their families receive the COVID vaccine at Huron High School

April 30, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Teens say they want to help build herd immunity & stay as safe as possible By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor On his 16th birthday, Lucius Webster spent his 16th birthday opening a new Fender […]

Anna’s Kindness: AAPS student volunteers help others at six events in four days

April 19, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Now in its fourth year, Anna’s Day of Kindness has grown into a weekend of events, honoring Anna LeFort’s compassion and service on the anniversary of her death. The Forsythe Middle School student passed away […]

Huron High School Mock Trial Team wins state competition; now it’s on to nationals

April 15, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Community High School comes in a close second in a simulated trial held virtually By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News If you think it’s hard to win an argument with a teenager, imagine what it’s like […]

Huron & Community news outlets receive top honors from Columbia Scholastic Press

April 7, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Students kept the news coming despite COVID shut-downs By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Local news has faced struggles of late in many cities, but good journalism is alive and thriving at Community and Huron High […]

First & second graders welcomed back to the buildings

April 5, 2021 AAPS News Editor

“Roomies” and “Zoomies” taught simultaneously as Stage 2 of Hybrid Return to In-person Learning takes place district-wide By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Stage 2 of the Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Hybrid Return to In-Person […]

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Huron High School BPA takes home 67 awards at the 2021 BPA State Conference

April 1, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Members of Huron’s Business Professionals of America Chapter captured 67 awards after going online from March 14th-17th to compete against other Michigan schools in the 2021 BPA State Conference. BPA is the nation’s leading Career […]

Scarlett 7th grader’s winning poetic rap reflects on diversity

March 5, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Tamsin Aherne urges us to ‘be kind to every kind of mankind’ By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The challenge: Write a poetic rap reflecting one of three themes: COVID-19 Pandemic School Life in 2020 […]

Community High School ASL students sign “Lift Every Voice”

March 1, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Every year Jen Niner’s Community High School ASL students sign “Lift Every Voice” at the school’s MLK assembly. This year the students asked if they could individually record their part, which Niner then compiled. “It […]

District-wide MS-K8 assembly will celebrate ‘March is Reading Month’ on March 3

March 1, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Former Tappan student Sarah Weeks will talk to students about her work as an author By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The AAPS middle school librarians will host a special virtual assembly for all middle […]

At-home viewers will select the winner of FutureStars 2021 during March 13 event; tickets now on sale

February 25, 2021 AAPS News Editor

Students say this year’s show will be very different—but they wouldn’t have missed it for anything By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The FutureStars talent competition has been a sold-out Pioneer Theatre Guild tradition for […]