Hello,
We will have our 2025 Homecoming parade on September 24. Here are the details:
The Homecoming Parade will begin at the Hot Springs High School/Middle School Parking lot.
Floats and vehicles will line up on 17th St beginning at 2pm
Parade will start at 2:30pm.
Parade will turn right on University Ave.
Turn right on N. 19th St.
Turn left on Jennings Ave.
Turn right on 23rd St.
Turn right on Minnekahta Ave.
Turn right on N. River St.
Turn left on Jennings Ave.
Turn right on N. Chicago St.
Turn right on University Ave.
End: Return to school parking lot
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/
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.
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
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.
Thank you.
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
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
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.
