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Category: Science

Mike Goudy Named to Science Position

July 12, 2021

Principal Dwight Gingerich announces that Mike Goudy will join the Hillcrest Academy team in the fall of 2021 to fill the Science position. Mike comes highly recommended to Hillcrest, following […]

Ravens respond to questions of masked basketball practice

November 30, 2020

We know how much basketball means to this community – since our inaugural 1972-73 season, our interscholastic basketball team has competed across the state and along the way it has […]

Chemistry & Pancakes

April 6, 2020

The last time you made pancakes, did you think about the chemistry involved in the baking process? Probably not. In Chemistry today Mark Miller, PhD did a kitchen experiment making […]

The Human Skeletal System, Spring Flowers, and Online Welding

March 30, 2020

Science and Ag Instructor, Mike Severino-Patterson, has been keeping his students busy. In Anatomy & Physiology, while they talk through the different bones analyzing them in terms of structure […]

Anatomy & Physiology class learns through dissection

March 12, 2020

Over the past couple weeks Mike Severino-Patterson’s Anatomy and Physiology class has been learning about how our bodies work by dissecting cats. We decided to dissect cats as they have […]

Biology classes hold GMO debate

March 4, 2020

On March 3, Hillcrest biology classes held a debate about GMOs and if they are good or bad. For one week leading up to the debate, students were divided into teams […]

Plant Science class busy with Harvest

October 17, 2019

The plant science class has been busy harvesting tomatoes and pumpkins from the greenhouse and campus gardens, and sweet potatoes from the Wellman Community Gardens. Plant Science students who helped […]

Hillcrest receives Trees for Kids grant

October 2, 2019

Hillcrest Academy has recently received a Trees for Kids grant in the amount of $2491.25 from the Iowa DNR to plant several replacement trees on the school grounds (to replace […]

STEM Conference

February 13, 2019

This fall math instructor, Gloria Yoder, took a group of female students to Iowa State University for their Women in Science and Engineering Conference. Leah Bontrager, Esther Hughes, Sarann Durflinger, […]