EPISD seniors keep raking in the dough for college. Chapin High School’s Gabrielle Franklin recently received the prestigious QuestBridge Scholarship for a full-ride to Rice University in Houston this fall. The Chapin senior, who is the top-ranked senior in her class, is one of two EPISD students from the Class of 2020 to receive the […]Read More
Students in Chapin’s pre-engineering program took all the training they’ve received so far this school year and used it to show off their skills and spread some holiday cheer. The sophomores designed holiday and movie-themed displays for the Principles of Engineering Holiday Villages Competition that included lights, motion and sound — all on display in […]Read More
Chapin High’s Erik Hernandez and Cesar Higadera last week took top honors at the Tag Team Rebote Rumble, the first inter-school tournament of its kind in the city. Doubles teams from Chapin, Bowie and Jefferson high schools competed in the first Royal Rumble at Bowie High for rebote bragging rights – showcasing the not-so-well-known but highly-competitive sport […]Read More
Smash Brothers tournaments, 3-D printing, green-screen video recording and even a traveling planetarium were only part of the attractions featured at the Big Daws FanCon — Chapin’s first ComicCon. The event, which is modeled after the comic-book conventions that have become popular in cities throughout the country, was organized by the Chapin Library as a way […]Read More
A Chapin High School senior who is Harvard University-bound and received a nearly perfect SAT score is on the shortlist to become one of the few students named 2018 Military Child of the Year by a nonprofit working with military families. Operation Homefront announced earlier this month that Chapin’s Bryce Kim is one of 15 […]Read More
In a battle pitting one of the newer northeast teams versus one of the original El Paso County schools, new bested old as the Chapin Huskies defeated the Austin Panthers at Irvin High’s Tony Shaw Field Friday night. – Read More
Every year the Rio Bravo Watercolorists teams up with the EPISD Fine Arts department to present one student with a $100 scholarship award for their artwork. The award this year went to Chapin High School senior Jesus Saenz for his painting “Sombras di Bleu” – a self-portrait he submitted for the 2017 EPISD student art […]Read More
El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Juan Cabrera this week announced the appointment of two new principals and a new executive director in the human resources department. Mary Anna Giba is the new principal at Irvin High School. Ms. Giba had been serving as interim principal at Irvin and previously served as principal at Cielo Vista Elementary School and […]Read More
A team of Chapin High School students won the national championship in a literary storytelling competition during the Technology Student Association National Conference earlier this month in Nashville, Tenn. The team of Celeste Casarez, Lertchaal Hale and Sarah Willis earned first place out of 134 teams in the Children’s Stories category — a competition that asks students to […]Read More
The marching season may have ended in the fall for Chapin High School band students, but that doesn’t mean the drum corps is sitting idle. Chapin is the only high school with a winter guard percussion team, and the squad is already making waves in regional competitions. The team competed in the Winter Guard Arizona […]Read More
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