News and Noteworthy Events: July 2016
By arasukishi
How's your summer been so far, Slythies? Read on for a recap of everything that's happened this July 2016.
HEX Pride
1 July
Annually hosted by Dumbledore's Office, HEX Pride celebrates diversity and encourages acceptance in the HEX Community. This year marked the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Dumbledore's Office forum on June 28, as well as commemorated the 47th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. For Pride Weekend, HEX celebrated the many differences of users from across all houses, races, genders, ages, disabilities - HEXians came together to honor and to respect the many differences that make us and our community special.
Site Store Revamp
7 July
Listen up! The official HEX Site Store has been revamped and has been further improved with a fresh selection of more than 100 products of t-shirts, mugs, phone cases, and more! Slytherins will be interested to note that all-new house t-shirt designs are also available. Show your true colors and purchase a HEX house shirt now! Kindly note that redeem cards may still be used to purchase items. For more details, visit the site store at http://www.hexrpg.com/sitestore/
HEX Games: 2016 Edition
10 July
Join Albus, Rose, Scorpius and more as they battle it out in the very first Wizarding Games! Running from July until August, this year's HEX Games: 2016 Edition features exciting challenges for athletic witches and wizards such as The Art of Exploding Snap, Magical Measurement, My Legacy: Part I, My Legacy: Part II, and more to come over the course of this magical tournament. Head on over to the HEX Games at http://www.hexrpg.com/f/727 to represent Slytherin in a race for medals versus the other houses! But even if competition isn't your thing, you may want to check out the side-activities and chat threads at the game grounds. So go, go, go!
Slytherin News
Elections: July 2016
7 July
Slytherin House welcomes our two new prefects, Bree and Nicole Phelps. They will be stepping up into their roles effective immediately, in place of MissHavokk and rowle11. We wish both Bree and Nikky our warmest congratulations! Let's make this new term a slythering success!!
Team Try-Outs 2016-2017
20 July
You know you've always been interested in competing on behalf of Slytherin. You know it, the Admins know it, and that's why try-outs for next season's athletic teams are up! If you wish to join either the Quidditch Team or Dueling Team - you might want to sign up for both, too! - head on to the Common Room for more details. Kindly note that even if you were a member of either house team for the past season, you will still have to re-apply.
And that's it for this month, Slythies!
One more month left of the summer holidays -
Let's make the most of it!!
*randomly dancing away with a pineapple*