REMINDER: Bojangles' Hackers & Smashers Golf

We we will be holding the very first Bojangles' Hackers and Smashers Golf Tournament to benefit the Bojangles' Basketball Bash on Monday, September 8th. We are extremely excited to host this event at Oak Hills Golf Club with a 9:30 am shotgun start. Breakfast and lunch will be provided as well as a chance to win $2,000 with a hole-in-one on #7 (along with other amazing prizes). Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the second edition of the Bojangles' Basketball Bash being held on December 11-13, 2014 at Ridge View High School. We will be announcing our amazing event lineup soon. Golfers can sign up on our website. Click on the image for more information.

REMINDER: Summer Reading Books Available

In preparation for our Summer Reading program, our Media Center has books on our summer reading list available for checkout, so stop by before school, during lunch or after school to checkout your selected book. The Media Center also has many of the books available as e-books this year, which can be checked out for a week at a time. To check out an e-book: 1. Visit RVHS webpage; 2. Select At the View; 3. Select Online Catalog (Destiny); 4. Log in with username and password; & 5. Select Follett Shelf. Click on the image for our complete book list.

ACADEMICS Focus: 5 Students Receive AKA Scholarship

Five Ridge View seniors were awarded a college scholarship in the amount of $1,115 from the Gamma Nu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.  Forty students from the Columbia area were selected based on their applications and essay entries.  We would like to congratulate Tyrone Ellis, William House, Chelsea Madden, Tyler McAllister, and Harrison Terry for representing the students from Ridge View.  On June 22nd, a ceremony was held in their honor and Tyler McAllister, Harrison Terry, and Willaim House (pictured from left to right) were in attendance.

Happy 4th of July!

Have a great holiday, and we will see you when we re-open on Monday, July 7th.   

We Apologize

We would like to apologize to our readers, Romae Atkinson, Jacinda Heo, and Representative Mia McLeod.  Earlier in June we posted an announcement that Jacinda Heo received the Women's Leadership Scholarship.  However, the winner of that scholarship was Romae Atkinson.  The story was modified with the correction, but we wanted to let you know as well.  Again we apologize for this mistake.

ACADEMICS Focus: SAT/ACT Prep Offered At USC

Interested in preparing for the ACT and SAT this summer?  University of South Carolina is offering Test Prep SAT/ACT Summer Institutes for rising 10th - 12th grade students.  Two different sessions are available at the Columbia location: July 21-24 and July 28-31.  For more information and to register, please visit USC's Continuing Education site by clicking on the image to the left or you can call 803.777.9444. 

HSAP No Longer Required For SC HS Diploma

South Carolina high school students are no longer required to pass HSAP (previously known as the Exit Exam) to receive a high school diploma.  Former Richland School District Two students from 1999-2014 graduating classes who met all other graduation requirements may now petition the Richland Two School Board of Trustees to receive a South Carolina diploma.  Act 155 (H.3919), which provided for the elimination of the Exit Exam (HSAP) as a requirement for a high school diploma, was passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Nikki R. Haley on April 14, 2014.

People eligible to receive a diploma under these conditions must:

• no longer be enrolled in a public school
• have been denied graduation solely for failing to meet the Exit Exam (HSAP) requirements
• review the Richland Two Guidelines for Petition of High School Diploma in Accordance with Act 155
• complete an Act 155 Petition Form (or click the image above for the form) by December 31, 2015.

For more information about Act 155, visit the SC Department of Education's website.  

Please allow 8-10 weeks for processing, printing, and delivery.