Debate Champions Crowned at District Tourney
Middle-schoolers like to argue, or at least that’s how it seems as their brains develop and they’re motivated to put newly acquired critical-thinking skills to the test. Suddenly, the word “why” becomes commonplace, and the conversation at dinner feels like a scene from Perry Mason. But that’s what makes school debate so much fun, and […]
Canyons District’s Sterling Scholar Candidates Aim For Honors
A whopping 22 stellar students from Canyons District’s five traditional comprehensive high schools find out tonight if they have been selected as 2017 Sterling Scholars in their respective categories. Winners in the 55th annual scholarship program sponsored by the Deseret News and KSL-TV Channel 5 will be announced during a ceremony at the LDS Conference […]
Escape the Winter Blues with CSD’s Theatre Line-Up
Do the winter blues have you down? Would you rather disappear into Victorian England, consider the value of individuality, laugh about society’s pitfalls, pretend you are at the Globe Theatre or spy on the Salem witch trials from the comfort of a high school auditorium? Never fear, Canyons’ students are hard at work on this […]
Alta’s Josh Davis is the Gatorade Player of the Year
Alta senior Josh Davis is a force to be reckoned with both on and off the football field. He’s Alta’s go-to for carrying and running the ball, he’s scored 72 touchdowns and he earned 5,290 rushing yards as a Hawk. But Davis is also a dedicated student, with a GPA of 3.86, and he spends […]
Step2theU: An Early College Option for Alta High Students
Motivated, hard-working juniors at Alta High who are eager to get a jump on college at a tier-one, PAC-12 research institution and who are willing to sacrifice a few summers to do it were encouraged on Friday to apply for Step2theU, a novel program that will give a select cohort of qualifying students a […]
CSD Mountain Bikers Pedal their Way to State, World Championships
Heather Horton is a force to be reckoned with. Put her in a race, in the water, in mud, on a steep mountain, on a bike, with an injury, against people from all over the world and she’ll still win. At the Xterra World Championship in October in Hawaii, Horton took first place in her […]
A Quiet Confidence: Meet ESPY Winner Alta High Coach Lee Mitchell
Alta soccer coach Lee Mitchell knows how to win. He won 14 state championships and three national coach-of-the-year awards, but he’s still surprised anyone even knows his name. When the Utah High School Activities Association nominated Mitchell in 2014 to be the coach of the year for boys soccer for the National Federation of High […]
Alta High Families Fill ‘Empty Bowls,’ Fight Hunger
Every fall, Anne Mallory looks at the students in her ceramics and sculpture classes at Alta High and tells them one heartbreaking fact: Of the eight people sitting at your table, two came to school hungry today. Every day, one in five children in Utah don’t know where they will find their next meal, according […]
Step2theU: Alta High, U. Forge Innovative Early-College Partnership
Prepare to soar toward a brilliant future, Hawks. The Canyons Board of Education on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 embraced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the University of Utah that will give flight to the higher-education aspirations of stellar students attending Alta High School. A Memo of Understanding between the first new school district to be created in Utah […]
Pomp and Circumstance: CSD Lauds Class of 2016
Alta High Alta High’s class of 2016 may be the smallest the school has ever seen, but they are a force to be reckoned with. In the 2015-2016 school year, the graduates fundraised $175,000, earned $4 million in scholarship awards and received 728 concurrent and AP credits, saving some $655,000 in college tuition. “We have […]
