DECA is an association of marketing students. Salem Hills High School’s chapter has about 7 active members with a handful of alternates. March 3-4 was the state competition, and Salem did respectively well. We had our own Brian Miller and Logan Bennet win third place in Business Law and Ethics. Brian Miller also won an award for his high test score. The rest of the members competed, did their best and had a blast! Logan and Brian are now eligible for Nationals, which is being held in Orlando Florida this year! Nationals will take place on the end of April.

Thursday February 24th Salem Hills High School opened The Crucible. It turned out very well for the cast as they performed to the best of their abilities and ended up having a full house 3 times, out of 4 performances, and 3 standing ovations. “I feel it went very well.” Said Nathan Christensen, who plays Reverend John Hale, “one of the best experiences I’ve ever had, mostly working with the cast, crew, and our director, Mrs.

Salem Hills High School debate team, despite only being a school for three years, has dominated the state debate competition for three years! This year of 2011 is the third year SHHS has won the exemplary accolade. SHHS students are very proud of the debate students for competing against Spanish Fork, Springville, Payson, even some students from Maple Mountain. Our debate students placed in every event they competed in,-- amazing!

Amanda Smith (Junior) was one of 2 SHHS students chosen out of 50 for a spot in the Utah State art show (the other is Mckell Flick). Her entry was an acrylic painting in black and white of a girl. It is titled “boredom”. Amanda got this inspiration for this painting by a picture she had taken of a good friend of hers. “The picture showed great expression” Amanda said. When asked what her motivation was, Amanda said that Ms. Shuler was very encouraging of her work and persuaded her to enter the art show.