What's Going On With NJHS?
By Emily Floury
NJHS is an academic group of well rounded eighth and ninth graders with high grade point averages, and commitment to leadership, citizenship, service, and good character. These students also participate in many school projects, and extracurricular activities. NJHS meets on every third Wednesday of each month to discuss school functions. Also on meeting days NJHS members are required to dress up in formal attire. This shows honor, sophistication, and maturity. To be inducted into NJHS, one needs to achieve academic excellence. The National Junior Honor Society is great preparation for the National Honor Society, and looks great on college resumes.
Throughout the 2014-2015 school year NJHS members must complete five or more community service hours. This can be done on one’s own time, or can be done through NJHS. The log for community service hours requires the amount of time the work is done, a signature of a parent or guardian, the member’s signature, and the event. Many members complete the log through NJHS activities.
The NJHS has been working on many new projects and events for the upcoming 2015 school year. This year, members are planning a stem movie night, campus clean up, spring semiformal dance, and reading to elementary kids. NJHS members are required to either sign up for either the stem movie night or the dance committee. If members are not participating in reading to the elementary kids, they must assist in the spring campus clean up. These events are very fun to be a part of and design!
The NJHS meetings also include fun little activities that include generosity and niceness. For example in one of the recent meetings, members wrote nice gestures, phrases, and quotes on sticky notes. They then stuck them on random lockers in the middle and high school hallways. When all of the students then came in the next morning, they had nice sayings on their lockers to start their days off happy!
NJHS has great opportunities, and is a lot of fun to partake in! It does not take a lot of work or time, just diligence in school work and commitment to service. NJHS will provide these members with a preview of NHS, and will produce many skills used in college, the community, and throughout life!
By Emily Floury
NJHS is an academic group of well rounded eighth and ninth graders with high grade point averages, and commitment to leadership, citizenship, service, and good character. These students also participate in many school projects, and extracurricular activities. NJHS meets on every third Wednesday of each month to discuss school functions. Also on meeting days NJHS members are required to dress up in formal attire. This shows honor, sophistication, and maturity. To be inducted into NJHS, one needs to achieve academic excellence. The National Junior Honor Society is great preparation for the National Honor Society, and looks great on college resumes.
Throughout the 2014-2015 school year NJHS members must complete five or more community service hours. This can be done on one’s own time, or can be done through NJHS. The log for community service hours requires the amount of time the work is done, a signature of a parent or guardian, the member’s signature, and the event. Many members complete the log through NJHS activities.
The NJHS has been working on many new projects and events for the upcoming 2015 school year. This year, members are planning a stem movie night, campus clean up, spring semiformal dance, and reading to elementary kids. NJHS members are required to either sign up for either the stem movie night or the dance committee. If members are not participating in reading to the elementary kids, they must assist in the spring campus clean up. These events are very fun to be a part of and design!
The NJHS meetings also include fun little activities that include generosity and niceness. For example in one of the recent meetings, members wrote nice gestures, phrases, and quotes on sticky notes. They then stuck them on random lockers in the middle and high school hallways. When all of the students then came in the next morning, they had nice sayings on their lockers to start their days off happy!
NJHS has great opportunities, and is a lot of fun to partake in! It does not take a lot of work or time, just diligence in school work and commitment to service. NJHS will provide these members with a preview of NHS, and will produce many skills used in college, the community, and throughout life!