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High School Academic awards night

These girls are power houses. You know they are doing well when you are bit embarrassed by their haul…

Anyway, time for my Proud Parent Dump.. If pride cometh before the fall, I’m in trouble.

Here is the flyer for the night.

Here is the back of the flyer.

Crowd shot.

As you can see, Hannah swept the honors. “Honors Graduate” for having at least a 4.0gpa I believe. “Palmetto Fellows” award from the state of SC, for being in the top 6% of the class, and having a SAT greater than 1300. This comes with a awesome scholarship that essentially pays for college thank you Lord. “NHS”, “Silver fox” academy, for meeting some standard that the school sets for their top students?.. And Mathlete award for being on the Mathlete team.. If I’m not mistaken she was the captain of the team. And a letter and special gift from the head of the math department, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith was Hannah’s special mentor and champion.. without her, I don’t know if Hannah would have been able to navigate the politics of school. Heck, I don’t know if I would have been able to. We have a lot to be thankful for for just that one person.

Hannah will wear the NHS stole and the combination Honors Scholar and Silver fox tassel at graduation. She also was recognized for tutoring all 4 years of High school. Melinda and Hannah are the only students that have tutored as freshmen so far, and Mrs Smith has recognized them as such.

I mean, Even Melinda pulled in 4 separate awards.. freshmen are not supposed to do that.. lol. (I am pretty confident that besides the Beta inductees, there were less than a half dozen freshmen that received anything else at all.)
Melinda received recognition for Being in Beta club, and she also was recognized for being one of the 4 school tutors. (My daughters represented 50% of the tutor staff! lol) She was also inducted into the Spanish Languages Honors Society, and received an award for the highest grade in the science honors class.

Seriously, these girls are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

Hannah and the NHS, episode 2

Went to Hannah’s Induction into Beta club and the NHS last night. I am glad the school has this ceremony. It shows how important and serious academic success is. Only 12% of the students make it into the NHS. Here is the flyer.

Here is Hannah with her friends and Mr Baskett, the assistant Principle.

As a reward, we went to PF Chang’s resturant afterwards.

Hannah and the NHS.

Hannah was accepted into the NHS. (National Honor Society) This is reserved for people in good standing with a 4.0 or better grade point average. They also ask you about your extracurricular activities, and expect you to be active in those also.

Good Job Hannah! Keep it up. Your hard work and persistence will take you places.

I need to post more about Melinda and Rockwell, but I’m short on info.. I’ll give them a call tonight to get an update. I know I am the Christmas present middle man.. shipping stuff that shows up here, down there! (shipping from online stores to the USVI is ridiculous for some reason)