MS and HS Advisory Groups are competing to see which group can collect the most Lynns Dakotamart receipts. Please send those with your middle or high schooler. PTA is sponsoring this competition and it ends on December 4th.
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BISON COMMUNITY:
The Hot Springs School District has entered TMobile's Friday Night Lights Competition. Our district could win $5,000, $25,000, or even be the one district that would win a game-changing homefield upgrade powered by TMobile,

Last years winner was Inola High School. This high school in Oklahoma received a state-of-the-art turn, new scoreboard, and an upgraded weight room. The community is less than 2,000 people so Hot Springs, South Dakota should not be counted out. https://youtu.be/_AIGv93cKGs?si=R62vjanWBPzAyn3M https://finance.yahoo.com/news/friday-night-5g-lights-champion-140500623.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANQOfRQCDUcasyb-aNoWf03JbKHQWWQmZlqup_pAv9qU3EYAd3WixP292Gv7aodHHYhMC-MCsRQdaxPY0ztdFBrKB485nfpf10cuTRi8WdesBQHn5-_UY8Ctywg08M2lEvBs7WxxMdM9aLfDcGN_Xa5c4GZC5DHFFQ6MBetsG-vD

What we need from our community. EXCITEMENT!! We need students, teachers, parents, and the rest of Hot Springs to rally to create content for the HSSD to share on our social media pages. This increases our chances of being chosen for one of the $5,000 Friday awards and to become a finalist. Finalist will be announced later in September. Each finalist will receive $25,000.

Please show your support for the Bison and show what Bison spirit looks like. Like this post and share your own image showing your Bison Spirit. Make sure to tag us on instagram @hotspringssd, facebook, @Tmobile, and use #FN5GL and #Sweeppstakes to get our posts noticed by TMobile. Let's see which of our students, families, community members has the most spirit!!

#FN5GL
#Sweepstakes
@TMobile

HSSD instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotspringssouthdakota/ @hotspringssd
HSSD Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hssd23.2/

19 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Here are the results from the Sturgis Golf Invite held on 9/8/25 in Sturgis on the Boulder Canyon Golf Course.
Schools entered-RC Central, Sturgis, Hot Springs, RC Stevens, Custer, Belle Fourche and Spearfish.

RC Central took the team title with a 4 person 18 hole score of 326, 2nd Sturgis-328, 3rd Hot Springs-338, 4th RC Stevens-346 and 5th-Custer-347.

Hot Springs Austin H won the meet medalist honors with a 18 hole score of 79, 2nd Sturgis’s Dodson-also 79, 3rd RC Central’s Jensen-80, 4th Hot Springs Brock S-81 and 5th RC Central’s Haangala-81.

Hot Springs was led by Austin-79, Brock-81, Noah W-89, Teegan L-89 and Holten R-93.


The results from the RC Central Quad held in RC on the Elks Golf Course on 9/9/25.
Schools entered-RC Central, Sturgis, Hot Springs & ST. Thomas More.

STM took the team title with a 4 person 9 hole score of 156, 2nd-RC Central-181, 3rd HS-197 and 4th-Douglas-252.

STM’s Sage won the medalist honors with a 9 hole score of 35, 2nd STM’sHeig-38, 3rd STM’s Levine-40, 4th RCC’s Bissonette-42 and 5th STM’s Strain-43.
Hot Springs was led by Gabe B-47, Winston P-49, Holten R-50, Hayden D-51 and Sam W-60.

We play next in the Pre-Conference meet in Custer on 9-11-25 starting at 9am and in Hot Springs for the Pre-Region on 9-15-25 starting also at 9am.

JV player are playing in HS on 9-12-25 starting at 2pm for a 9 hole tournament.
19 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Go Bison!
20 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Parents of Juniors and Seniors. This is such a great opportunity for South Dakota students:

For those of you who are new to Build Dakota, we are a full-ride scholarship program for students attending South Dakota’s technical colleges. We partner with businesses across the state to promote job shadowing and career exploration, and those businesses help fund the scholarships. This fall, 630 students began college with over $11 million in scholarship support. We’re excited to share several updates and new resources with you this year!


• New Healthcare Programs- A full list of our approved programs can be found here:
Programs Eligible for the Build Dakota Scholarship | Build Dakota Scholarship https://www.builddakotascholarships.com/programs/

• New Toolkits- these are “best practices” for all of our audiences for participating in our program. Please feel free to share with parents, students or businesses who may have questions and there’s one for high school staff in case you are new to Build Dakota.
Industry Toolkits - Build Dakota Scholarships https://www.builddakotascholarships.com/resources/toolkits/

• Weekly Informational Sessions- Every Monday evening we will be hosting a Zoom webinar for students, parents and businesses to learn more about our program and have the opportunity to ask questions. An informational postcard is attached and information can also be found on our website.
Webinars | Build Dakota Scholarship https://www.builddakotascholarships.com/resources/webinars/

• Roadshow Season is Here- We’re once again traveling the state to create awareness of the Build Dakota Scholarship, promote career exploration/job shadowing, and strengthen connections between high schools, businesses, and economic development organizations. We’re grateful to the many schools that have already welcomed us! Our calendar is still being finalized, so if you haven’t submitted a request for a school visit, you can sign up here:
Roadshow Visits - Build Dakota Scholarships https://www.builddakotascholarships.com/resources/roadshow-visits/

As always, please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or there’s anything we can do to help your students navigate Build Dakota and our industry partner program. Thank you for all you do for your students.

Sincerely,

Deni Martin, M.S.Ed
Program Manager
Build Dakota Scholarship
605.347.1804

20 days ago, HSSD Administration
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The Hot Springs Intro to Ag and FFA students have been hard at work on range judging this fall. They’re working on plant identification and characteristics as well as learning to calculate carrying capacity for livestock. Taking education outside!
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We were graced with the presence of the BHYL cheer team at the board meeting last night. The HSSD welcomes Sharon Romey as our new school board member. Thank you to all four individuals that showed interest to serve our community.
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Making apple pie!
21 days ago, HSSD Administration
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A great way to start the week. As I walked down the hallway, you can hear another group singing in music.
21 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Tuesday, our volleyball teams are hosting Mahpiya Luta. Games start at 5:00. Middle school volleyball is home on Thursday against Lead-Deadwood. Our middle school boys end the week on Saturday hosting a football Jamboree starting at 9am.

There are a lot of away activities this week. Parents of those student-athletes: please send us pictures if you attend the competition. We would love to share pictures with the Bison community of our student-athletes competing in golf, football, cross country, and soccer.
21 days ago, HSSD Administration
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High school and middle school picture day is scheduled for Monday the 8th. We had been waiting on picture packets to hand out, and they just showed up late Friday. Picture day will go ahead as planned but the deadline for ordering pictures will be extended to September12th. We will be able to hand out packets on Monday. Parents can still order online at mylifetouch.com with the code EVTTNGQ9G. There are flyers in the high school with the QR code on it.
Thank you.
24 days ago, Kain Klinkhammer
The Hot Springs School District held a ribbon cutting ceremony today for our preschool program. We wanted to thank our community members that supported our Preschool Campaign and have made full time, free preschool a reality for all Hot Springs School District 3-5 year olds.
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Kindergartners- you are making a move to be the first grade level registered online. This is such a close "race."
24 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Hello Bison Families:
We have two different links for (1) elementary and (2) middle and high school announcements. We hope to keep our students, parents, and guardians aware of important events and reminders. These can be accessed on our homepage, but here are the links if you'd like to bookmark them.

ELEM: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7xsAzygmOKG27GvKmR-qQkvz9A4GWR5plerq-1YFQo/edit?usp=sharing
MS/HS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7DDg-lKrTBV2l2hrMREkVpoz6PG7E18cA0Hl9LP35U/edit?usp=sharing
25 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Parents of seniors: This is a great site (Scroll half-way down) for recordings of multiple topics for post-secondary plans.

College Admissions
Post-Secondary skills
Funding College

Link


25 days ago, HSSD Administration
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5th grade is making a move to be the first elementary grade to be 100% registered for this school year. Wouldn't it be awesome to have extra recess tomorrow?
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The results from the Douglas Golf Invite held on the Prairie Ridge Golf Course in Box Elder on 9-2-25.
Schools entered-Hot Springs, Sturgis, Custer, RC Christian, RC Stevens, RC Central, Belle Fourche, Spearfish, Lakota Tech, Douglas, Pine Ridge, Lead/Deadwood, Little Wound, Spearfish and
Cheyenne Eagle Butte.

HOT SPRINGS took the team title with a 4 person 18 hole score of 327(lowest score we have shot in 4 years), 2nd Sturgis-331, 3rd Custer-344, 4th RC Christian-349 and 5th RC Stevens-360.

Sturgis’s Thurman won the medalist honors with a 18 hole score of 79, 2nd Sturgis’s Dodson-80, 3rd HS’s Brock S-80, 4th HS’s Austin H-80 and 5th RC Christian’s Von Eye-82.

Hot Springs was led by Brock-80, Austin-80, Teegan L-83, Noah W-84, Sam W-97 and Gabe B-106.
We play next in RC on the Elks golf course starting at 4pm-9holes only, then we are at home on 9/15/25 for the Pre-Region Golf meet starting at 9am.
26 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Congrats! Hot Spring 1st Place Prairie Ridge Golf Course, 9/2/25
26 days ago, HSSD Administration
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The Hot Springs School District supports the community's efforts to acknowledge the events of September 11th. Please see the attachments for the waiver and a special permission slip to come to school a bit late on September 11th for those families that participate in the Stair Climb.

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https://5il.co/3p2kk
27 days ago, HSSD Administration
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Parents and guardians of Elementary students. First graders are two away from earning extra recess. The breakdown for how many students we still need registered online are as follows:
K- 8
1st- 2
2nd-5
3rd-6
4th-7
5th-8
I always cheer for the underdogs so I am hoping that either K or 5th grade come from behind.

Online registration link: https://forms.gle/Py7h8QRhwyQGCqTN8
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