Go Bison!
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
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
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!
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.
Making apple pie!
A great way to start the week. As I walked down the hallway, you can hear another group singing in music.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you.
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.
Kindergartners- you are making a move to be the first grade level registered online. This is such a close "race."
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
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
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?
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.
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.
Congrats! Hot Spring 1st Place Prairie Ridge Golf Course, 9/2/25
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.
https://5il.co/3p2km
https://5il.co/3p2kk
https://5il.co/3p2km
https://5il.co/3p2kk
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
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
Get your Hot Springs Spirit Wear at 25% OFF sitewide! Order TODAY for home delivery and to start the school year with Hot Springs pride! https://1stplace.sale/114508
Let's get the Bison Blue on and support these home activities this week starting with our first HOME volleyball matches. We host Lead-Deadwood tonight starting at 5:00pm. If tonight does not give you your fill on volleyball, come join us Thursday after school for middle school girls as they host Chadron. And to top off our week, bundle up for a cool evening and cheer on the football team as we host Wagner Friday night.
A reminder that the Elementary building has pictures tomorrow, Sept 3rd and our MS/HS is scheduled for September 8th. The MS/HS Picture Day ID: EVTTNGQ9G
