Thirteen CSD Students Named Semifinalists in 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program

More than a dozen Canyons District high school students are on track to receive a financial boost for their higher education goals, thanks to their hard work in academics, extracurricular activities, and recommendations from their teachers. They are among 16,000 students nationwide chosen as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.  The following CSD students […]

Five Hillcrest Huskies Earn Top Marks at U of U Science, Engineering Fair

At a time when so much hangs on the promise of science, these Hillcrest High students give us cause for hope. Five Hillcrest students claimed podium finishes in the 2020 University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair, an event that was scaled back to include only the Senior Division due to mounting concerns over the […]

Trio of CSD Students Rise to Top in 2020 Sterling Scholar Contest

Three Canyons students – two from Hillcrest and one from Jordan high schools – captured first-place category honors in the 2020 Sterling Scholars competition.   The CSD winners are:  Rishab Balakrishnan, Hillcrest, in the Business and Marketing category Sanjana Kargi, Hillcrest, in the Computer Technology category Nathan Holley, Jordan, in the Speech/Theater Arts/Forensics category Ten […]

Chase the Winter Doldrums with these Spring Plays

From the second star to the right to an enchanted florist with a horrific plant. From a campy roller skate crew to a cursed castle haunted by a doomed prince, Canyons District’s middle schools and high schools are bringing plenty of excitement your way this spring to shake you out of the winter doldrums. Check […]

Here’s What School Choice Looks Like in Canyons District

For Hillcrest High senior Laura Wan, the question of which school she would choose to attend began as early as kindergarten, when her parents steered her to an advanced learner’s program at Canyons District’s Peruvian Park Elementary.  After completing the SALTA program in elementary school, she chose Midvale Middle for its Middle Years Program, and […]

Hillcrest Theatre Chosen to Pilot New Marvel Play

Hillcrest High’s award-winning theater department already has a reputation for producing excellent shows. Add in the magic of Marvel, and the result is bound to be spectacular. This fall, Hillcrest is one of a handful of schools chosen to pilot two new Marvel one-act plays that tackle contemporary issues from the Marvel Universe. The plays […]

Hillcrest High’s Cheng Brothers Share Triple-Crown of Academic Achievement

Sterling Scholar, check. National Merit Scholar, check. Presidential Scholar, check, check, and check. Hillcrest High’s Alexander Cheng has won the equivalent of the triple-crown of academic achievement, a feat matched by only one other student in Canyons District history: his brother, Anthony. Throughout their educational careers, Alexander Cheng and Anthony Cheng broke educational ground with […]

Hillcrest Students Star in Eccles “Dear Evan Hansen” Promotion

When Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater revealed which shows would be staged in the coming year, the voices of Hillcrest High students belting “You Will Be Found” from the Tony Award-winning “Dear Evan Hansen” were a pitch-perfect part of the publicity blitz. Videographers were at Hillcrest on Monday to film students in the vaunted drama […]

Hillcrest High’s Cheng Shines As Top Sterling Scholar

Is it in the DNA? Or is it just a lot of hard work? Perhaps it’s a mix of both for Canyons District’s Cheng family, who can now boast two General Scholar winners at the annual Sterling Scholar competition. On Friday, March 15, 2019, Alexander Cheng, a senior at Hillcrest who has been accepted to […]

Hillcrest Huskies Roaring for Final Time in Art Hughes Gymnasium

If these walls could talk, they would tell stories of edge-of-your-seat wins and losses, drenched-with-sweat practices, the thump-and-blare of the pep band, and the heard-for-miles cheers of generations of Huskies. While history has been kind to Hillcrest’s Art Hughes Gymnasium, the time has come to build new memories in a facility that’s being constructed for […]