The National Honor Society, NHS, is a well-known national organization found in most, if not all, high schools. It is a sign of academic excellence in and outside of the classroom and allows students in a high school setting to be distinguished from their peers.
For Plant High School, requirements are strict. To be a member of NHS, students, beginning their sophomore year, must have a minimum of 3.5 unweighted GPA, 50 volunteer service hours and no disciplinary action.
With these distinctions, students are permitted to be a member of the club. Once students reach this point, they may qualify to become a member at any point past sophomore year’s first semester. However, once a student is eligible, they are then invited to an induction ceremony.
For the 2025 to 2026 school year, this ceremony occurred on Monday, March 9.
The NHS Board worked to organize, set up and ultimately run the ceremony.
“The preparation for the induction went very smoothly,” Sammy Iglesias (11) says. “The juniors helped more logistically set up and pronunciation wise for the inductees while the seniors did more of the ceremonial process. As a junior on board, it is amazing to watch the Seniors pass the torch to the Juniors for the following academic year.”
Doors opened at 5 p.m. and Junior members of the board began to direct parents and students alike to their seats. At this same time, the Senior members of the board sat in preparation for their speaking roles on the stage.
“I have been involved since Junior year my role was vice president of involvement soi I have had to participant in every single drive we have done,” James Stringer (12) says. “So, it’s a lot of little things I’ve had to be involved with. It is very full circle to be on stage talking like I saw freshman year.”
Stringer, along with other seniors, began speaking at 5:30. Once through the formalities, such as the pledge of allegiance and introductions, they began to call students up to the stage.
President of NHS, Parker Booth (12) commented on her experience preparing for this ceremony.
“It has taken a couple of months to come up with everything and make sure everything is organized in previous years it has been very difficult to organize and get things together so that has been a goal for this year – better communication and organization,” Booth says.
NHS at Plant accomplished lots of things this school year. In addition to organizing the entire induction, they also ran a multitude of other events such as fast camp.
The auditorium, where the induction occurred, was filled to the brim with students and parents.
Board member, Jane Stenberg (11), concurred with Owens statement pertaining to the success of the event.
Stenberg says, “Not even close to this amount of people came to my induction last year so it was cool to see it be so successful.”
Ultimately, according to the board and attendees alike, the NHS induction was a success.
