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 […]
CSD Students Win Coveted Juror’s Award at Springville All-State Art Show
Three Canyons’ students have received honors at the prestigious Springville All-State High School Art Show. Brighton’s Georgia Raddon, Jordan’s Nicole Brooks and Hillcrest’s Sarah Turpin each received the Juror’s Award of Merit for their entries into the 45th annual art show. The highly competitive exhibition features entries from high school juniors and seniors throughout Utah. […]
110 CSD Students Advance to Regional Science Fair
What if California were to secede from the United States? Is a Brexit-style “Calexit” even legal? And how might the state’s departure, and the loss of its 55 electoral votes, influence future presidential elections? It’s this last question that piqued the curiosity of Brighton High sophomore Jenna Rupper and that impressed the judges of […]
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 […]
BHS student gains recognition as top Utah female athlete
Her name is Dani Barton but the Deseret News calls her Ms. Volleyball, The Salt Lake Tribune calls her Player of the Year and Gatorade has named her the Utah Volleyball Player of the Year. Barton’s success at Brighton caught the attention of the University of Utah so much that, starting in January, her teammates […]
Olympic swimmer returns to BHS for pep talk
He competed in the 2016 Olympic Games against such history-making swimmers as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. While swimming for Brighton High, the 16-time prep All-American won four consecutive state championships and shattered 50 Utah swimming records. But Long Gutierrez confides that to reach those heights, he had to push through some low points when […]
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 […]
BHS Mock Election: Creating Lifelong Voters
This may be a tense political season, but the mood at Brighton High’s mock election on Friday was pensive and subdued. There was some spirited, thoughtful discussion prior to the opening of the polls. But as soon as history teacher Tabatha Mayne handed out the simulated ballots, a hush fell over her classroom. Her students, […]
Eleven CSD Students Named National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalists
Eleven students from four of Canyons District’s traditional comprehensive high schools have been named semi-finalists in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship program. They join about 16,000 others who this week advanced in the prestigious competition to vie for 7,500 scholarships worth $33 million. Finalists are chosen from 1.6 million students at more than 22,000 high […]
Brighton High Grad Lives Olympic Dream at Rio Games
This cat can swim. Former Bengal Long Gutierrez, who shattered more than 40 Utah High School Activity Association swimming records while competing for Brighton High, vied this week for Olympic gold at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro against such history-making swimmers as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. Gutierrez, one of just three swimmers […]