MTHS continued its yearly tradition with this year’s Freshmen Orientation and Hawk Walk being the first events of the year, where new students learn about the school and returning students prepare for their return.
The Freshmen Orientation opened up with an assembly. The new Terrace principal, David Friedle, introduced himself, as did Freshmen Class Advisors, Christina Lewis and Ian Senter-Drumm, and this year’s Connect Captains, who are seniors Kalliope Whalen-Robinson, Leia Anteneh and Alice Guan.
After some games; like rock paper scissors and other activities, the cheer team taught the new freshmen the spirit dances “Ice Cream and Cake” and “Super Sonic.”
Vince DeMiero, adviser of the HSM journalism program and Choir Club, also taught the Class of ’29 a former Terrace tradition, the Hawks Fight Song. The Hawks fight song used to be played at various spirit and sports events, but the tradition was lost through COVID in online schooling. Now, however, it is being slowly brought back with this new group of Hawks.
The Connect Leaders then lead the freshmen on tours of the school, as the rest of the students arrived for Hawk Walk.
The Hawk Walk provides students a chance before the school year starts to get an ASB card, pre-order a yearbook, purchase spirit accessories, and deal with any other finance or ASB needs.
The clubs of MTHS also typically set up booths at Hawk Walk, in order to recruit new students for the school year and spread information about their club. Some of the clubs with booths this year included Theater, Esports, GSA, Robotics, HOSA, and Hawk Student Media, as well as many others.
Many of these groups also had interactive activities to get students engaged in their club. Esports held a Super Smash Bros. tournament, Robotics piloted their robots, and Hawk Student Media held a scavenger hunt on information about the school.
The Hawk Walk officially ended at 2 p.m. although many students left before that point. Later that night, the new student parent night was held in the theater.
The Hawk Walk has existed for many years at Terrace, although as technology has become more and more accessible throughout the years not as many students show up after their freshman year, and the need to attend has also declined as most of the events at Hawk Walk can now be completed digitally through Skyward.
Still, Hawk Walk is a tradition at Terrace and will likely stick around, at least in some form or another.
(©HAWKEYE image credit: David Cardwell)
