What awards does your kid's HS give seniors?
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Anonymous
| Non-athletic awards? |
Anonymous
| WJ has an academic awards night for (mainly? Exclusively?) seniors. Departmental awards. Some good citizenship type awards. You get a letter inviting you to the ceremony if you’re going to receive an award but you typically don’t know which one until you get there. |
Anonymous
| Seneca Valley is having a Senior Awards Ceremony tomorrow night. They do not disclose the award ahead of time. |
Anonymous
| I think there are awards (maybe some with $?) that are named after former teachers? |
Anonymous
When is the WJ Awards ceremony |
Anonymous
| Looks like each HS handles things differently |
Anonymous
| A poster said NHS national honor society |
Anonymous
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Some of it is already given out but they do give the shoutout for it and sometime a certificate, medal, sash, tassel etc so that kids can wear it on the graduation day
1) Honor Society Awards - NJHS(?), Language (French, Spanish), Science, Math, Thespian, Music etc 2) Superintendent's award for volunteer hours 3) Presidential awards for academics 4) National Honor Scholarship awards - Semi-finalists and finalists 5) Straight A's (or 4.0 awards) 6) Scholarships in honor of past teachers or past exceptional students 7) Magnet programs or special programs |
Anonymous
| I am trying to coordinate with certain high schools to present the winners of the scholarship I started with awards on their specific awards nights. So far I have only heard back from 1 of the 3 HS as to if this is possible. |
Anonymous
Tell us more. And why 3 HS only. |
Anonymous
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By statute, each Maryland public school gives an award (State Merit Scholastic Award, sometimes called Governor's award of Merit or the like) to the top 5% of graduating seniors. For whatever reason, MCPS doesn't seem to publicize this or let anyone know about it until senior awards night. Since they don't actually rank students, it's unclear how they calculate who is in the top 5%, but in years past at least, in some, perhaps all MCPS schools, they have just awarded it to all seniors graduating with unweighted 4.0s, regardless of whether that, as is often the case in some schools, exceeds 5% of the class (that's just a guess -- at least our school never revealed how they determined the top 5%). With the change in semester grading, more schools may have to go below UW 4.0
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/education/division-ii/title-7/subtitle-2/section-7-207/ |
Anonymous
I posted on this board about it when I started in in February. It was a 1000 dollar scholarship for MCPS seniors who received Special Education Services and are pursuing higher education. There were 3 winners in the first year. I had 20 total applicants from 11 different high schools and the selection committee picked these 3 outstanding students. I contacted all of the school CCN's and the information was distributed and posted on the school websites. It was started and announced pretty late so I am hoping that it will have increased visibility and participation next year. Hoping to increase it to 5 total winners next year but it is 100% self funded out of my own pocket and teacher paychecks don't go that far. |
Anonymous
For Superintendent’s award at WJ, it was listed in graduation program and you’re given a cord, but my DC was not invited to awards night. Ditto for being a standard NHS member. |
Anonymous
Why list the Superintendent award but not the other ones in the program? Ridiculous. Think about it: you get an award because you wanted to volunteer and help others/things? Or you volunteered that many hours because you wanted to receive an award (and be listed in the program)? |
Anonymous
Some kids volunteer crazy number of hours but don't submit beyond the required to graduate. Others want to be recognized for whatever reasons they have to get the recognition. |