High School

Community Service Activity

To receive credit for volunteering please utilize the form below.  Signup.com and Sports Boosters will offer you opportunities to provide volunteer service to others.  Students may also identify and address a need through service.  Please email Mrs Witkowski  if you have any questions.

NHS Volunteer Service form for documentation

 

Requirements and Expectations:

The National Honor Society is an organization of students who meet the highest standards of Scholarship, Leadership, Character, and Service.  Students must have junior or senior status.  There is an application and selection process in order to obtain membership into this group.

CHARACTER

The student consistently acts as a positive role model for others, demonstrates an optimistic, can do attitude, is polite and well mannered; The student shows the highest ethical and moral behaviors in academic, athletic and community pursuits.  Attendance at all obligations and clean speech is expected.

SCHOLARSHIP

The student must consistently maintain a GPA of 3.63 

LEADERSHIP

The student must show leadership both in and out of the classroom, engage in an identified position of leadership in other community or sport organization, act as a guiding force in another organization, meaningful activity or project, and otherwise serve as a role model to others.  Leadership is consistently demonstrating initiative and taking responsibility for one's own or a group's actions.

SERVICE

The student energetically participates in activities that assist and benefit others without pay.  

These qualities will be monitored regularly by the advisers and officers of the organization.  Students who do not consistently meet these standards will be addressed via a formal hearing that includes: adviser, student, parent, and high school administration.  Disciplinary options will include: mentoring, probationary period, dismissal or other appropriate action.

• Eligible junior and senior students will be identified by GPA requirements by mid September. Letters of invitation and application will be sent to the student's home.

• NHS Candidate Applications will be due prior to October 1. 

• A Faculty Review committee will meet to verify that candidates meet eligibility criteria beyond the academic cutoff.

• Candidates will be considered probationary until the Induction ceremony set for mid January. Probationary members must attend scheduled meetings and participate in NHS activities.

• Full membership will require maintaining the NHS organization expectations listed above, attending regularly scheduled meetings and participating in NHS sponsored community service activities.
  

More detailed explanation regarding selection and disciplinary process will be available from the advisers and NHS officers.