The NHS picture for the 2011-2012 yearbook will be taken on Wednesday March 28 at the beginning of lunch. Please be there!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
February Update
It's that time of the year again! Invitations were sent out and applications have been reviewed. The new members will be honored at the induction ceremony on Monday, March 5th. Induction is at 6 pm in the school gym. Come dressed in your Sunday's best!
The large influx of new members warrants a revised meeting schedule. We gave out schedules in our last meeting, but it is also to your right under "Pages". There will be separate meetings for new members and current members as the auditorium cannot accommodate all of us at the same time.
As the school year is fast coming to completion, we have modified the leadership offices of NHS for next year.Now, with such a large number of members, we have an even greater ability serve others. To improve efficiency, organization, and competency, we are adding more leadership positions. Henceforth, in addition to each officer, there will be an adviser--one for each office. Elections were held on Tuesday, and it is with great excitement that we introduce the NHS officers for the 2012-2013 school year:
President- Felicia Lemoine
Adviser to the President- Peter Nguyen
Vice President- Tyler Ritchie
Adviser to the Vice President- Matthew Do
Secretary- Nida Farhoud
Adviser to the Secretary-Kailyn Cook
Treasurer- Darchelle Nguyen
Adviser to the Treasurer- Fernanda Morales
We look forward to the next school year!
The large influx of new members warrants a revised meeting schedule. We gave out schedules in our last meeting, but it is also to your right under "Pages". There will be separate meetings for new members and current members as the auditorium cannot accommodate all of us at the same time.
As the school year is fast coming to completion, we have modified the leadership offices of NHS for next year.Now, with such a large number of members, we have an even greater ability serve others. To improve efficiency, organization, and competency, we are adding more leadership positions. Henceforth, in addition to each officer, there will be an adviser--one for each office. Elections were held on Tuesday, and it is with great excitement that we introduce the NHS officers for the 2012-2013 school year:
President- Felicia Lemoine
Adviser to the President- Peter Nguyen
Vice President- Tyler Ritchie
Adviser to the Vice President- Matthew Do
Secretary- Nida Farhoud
Adviser to the Secretary-Kailyn Cook
Treasurer- Darchelle Nguyen
Adviser to the Treasurer- Fernanda Morales
We look forward to the next school year!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
We're in the middle of the winter and have been busily working with schoolwork, service, and of course, recycling!
We have recycled more than 3000 plastic bottles and aluminum cans! In an effort to raise awareness around the school for recycling as well as for double-sided printing, we will be making posters. If you would like to make a poster, email us or talk to Tien.
At one of our previous meetings, we mentioned recycling paper. As a school, we go through hundreds of sheets of paper a day. Paper recyclables, for us, would easily surpass plastics and aluminum cans. However, recycling paper would cost us $10 each month--the fee for a tote. Unlike with bottles and cans, we won't be involved in a program that aids us to recycle. Recylcing paper would be on our own initiative. Because we are still perfecting our system with beverage containers, we've decided to do paper recycling next school year. We still need members to help separate, sort, and scan recyclables! If you are interested in helping us, tell us! Some tasks, such as sorting and collecting the bottles from the box outside the office, only take ten minutes during the morning, lunch, or after school. This would also contribute to your ten hours of service NHS requires. Once we get a better system, we will be able to focus on other things such as paper recycling.
We hope everyone has been clipping box tops! YES, we are still collecting those for Woodmere Elementary and will be doing so until the end of the school year.
Continue to do your service hours! The ten hours needed by NHS will be collected towards the middle of the next semester, which will also be when we hold our elections for the officers of the 2012-2013 school year.
Our next meeting will be in 2012!. Check the page on the right panel over the break for an update of the dates for our meetings. Good luck on your exams (remember you must maintain a 3.5 GPA) and Happy Holidays!
We have recycled more than 3000 plastic bottles and aluminum cans! In an effort to raise awareness around the school for recycling as well as for double-sided printing, we will be making posters. If you would like to make a poster, email us or talk to Tien.At one of our previous meetings, we mentioned recycling paper. As a school, we go through hundreds of sheets of paper a day. Paper recyclables, for us, would easily surpass plastics and aluminum cans. However, recycling paper would cost us $10 each month--the fee for a tote. Unlike with bottles and cans, we won't be involved in a program that aids us to recycle. Recylcing paper would be on our own initiative. Because we are still perfecting our system with beverage containers, we've decided to do paper recycling next school year. We still need members to help separate, sort, and scan recyclables! If you are interested in helping us, tell us! Some tasks, such as sorting and collecting the bottles from the box outside the office, only take ten minutes during the morning, lunch, or after school. This would also contribute to your ten hours of service NHS requires. Once we get a better system, we will be able to focus on other things such as paper recycling.
We hope everyone has been clipping box tops! YES, we are still collecting those for Woodmere Elementary and will be doing so until the end of the school year.
Continue to do your service hours! The ten hours needed by NHS will be collected towards the middle of the next semester, which will also be when we hold our elections for the officers of the 2012-2013 school year.
Our next meeting will be in 2012!. Check the page on the right panel over the break for an update of the dates for our meetings. Good luck on your exams (remember you must maintain a 3.5 GPA) and Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Update for October
NHS will be volunteering at Lafreniere Park on October 28 for Park-A-Boo, a Halloween celebration for kids under the age of 13. For those who have signed up to go, we'll be working from 4-9pm. For more information and directions, go to http://park-a-boo.com/.
The Baptist Friendship House is no longer collecting Box Tops and is instead collecting Campbell's soup labels. If you would like to help them in their service for women and children, we encourage you to do so! However, our chapter will still be collecting Box Tops. We will be giving what we collect to our runner up: Woodmere Elementary.
$10 member fees are due at the end of the month! Be sure to give your dues to Yen Vo, our treasurer.
We have been approved as a Dream Machine Recycle Rally School! On Friday, our recycling kit came. We received a laptop, scanner, stickers, and other miscellaneous things that will help our school's endeavor to recycle. Our bins will come in later. At the meeting today, we played a video about the Dream Machine Recycle Rally (it can be found here: http://www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com/apply/) and we created a roster of members interested in staying after school on Tuesdays to scan and organize bottles. Please contact Kimberly Beckford, our secretary, if you would like to add your name to the list. The number of days/ hours we stay after school are subject to change depending on how many bottles we receive. Hopefully, Thomas Jefferson will be receiving masses of recyclables (non-alcoholic plastic bottles and aluminum cans only please). Please encourage your peers, relatives, and all other contacts to recycle their bottles and cans at Thomas Jefferson!
The Baptist Friendship House is no longer collecting Box Tops and is instead collecting Campbell's soup labels. If you would like to help them in their service for women and children, we encourage you to do so! However, our chapter will still be collecting Box Tops. We will be giving what we collect to our runner up: Woodmere Elementary.
$10 member fees are due at the end of the month! Be sure to give your dues to Yen Vo, our treasurer.
We have been approved as a Dream Machine Recycle Rally School! On Friday, our recycling kit came. We received a laptop, scanner, stickers, and other miscellaneous things that will help our school's endeavor to recycle. Our bins will come in later. At the meeting today, we played a video about the Dream Machine Recycle Rally (it can be found here: http://www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com/apply/) and we created a roster of members interested in staying after school on Tuesdays to scan and organize bottles. Please contact Kimberly Beckford, our secretary, if you would like to add your name to the list. The number of days/ hours we stay after school are subject to change depending on how many bottles we receive. Hopefully, Thomas Jefferson will be receiving masses of recyclables (non-alcoholic plastic bottles and aluminum cans only please). Please encourage your peers, relatives, and all other contacts to recycle their bottles and cans at Thomas Jefferson!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
"Do we have a meeting this Tuesday?"
Meetings will now be held every other Tuesday. Check the sidebar for the schedule. We decided that having a meeting every other week would be more efficient than having short meetings every week. Plus, having it every other week would open your schedules to other obligations you might have as student leaders at Thomas Jefferson. We hope you will devote your newly freed Tuesday lunches as well as every other day to the four pillars of NHS: scholarship, service, leadership, and character.
The box for box tops will be in the office starting 9/26/11! The box will be emptied into a bag for delivery to Woodmere Elementary. Encourage your peers, families, and friends to start collecting!
Monday, September 19, 2011
And the Winner is...
Last week, we voted on which school or organization would receive the Box Tops Thomas Jefferson will be collecting for the 2011-2012 school year. The results: (drumroll please) ... the Baptist Friendship House accumulated the most votes!
Regarding recycling at Thomas Jefferson, we've decided to apply to be a Dream Machine Recycle Rally school. The Recycle Rally targets K-12 schools and offers benefits to local and national businesses in addition to helping schools maintain the environment. You can find more information on their program at http://www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com/ . We'll update more on recycling when we get a response.
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 20th.
Regarding recycling at Thomas Jefferson, we've decided to apply to be a Dream Machine Recycle Rally school. The Recycle Rally targets K-12 schools and offers benefits to local and national businesses in addition to helping schools maintain the environment. You can find more information on their program at http://www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com/ . We'll update more on recycling when we get a response.The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 20th.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Box Tops
In our last meeting, we brought up collecting box tops. They're coupons worth ten cents each and are on packages of select common products (Betty Crocker, Ziploc, Kleenex, and almost every cereal brand). Here's a list of all products affiliated with Box Tops For Education:
http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx?WT.ac=UHP_PartProducts_10012010
Because Thomas Jefferson High School isn't a school that receives benefits from Box Tops, our chapter will choose a school or charity that will receive all the Box Tops we collect throughout the year. On Tuesday, we'll vote on where the Box Tops will go. Here are the schools/organizations we will vote from:
Woodmere Elementary
Shirley Johnson/ Gretna Park Elementary
McDonogh No. 26 Elementary
Gretna Middle
Baptist Friendship House
The schools listed above are low performing schools that are connected in one way or another to Thomas Jefferson. On the other hand, the Baptist Friendship house is a transitional housing program for women with children. They provide hygienic products and food to the homeless and run programs for women in the Greater New Orleans community such as GED tutoring, computer skills, job readiness, etc.
If anyone would like to suggest another organization or school to put on the the list, please comment and explain why you would like to have that school/organization on the ballot. Suggestions are encouraged!
Our next meeting will be on the 13th.
http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx?WT.ac=UHP_PartProducts_10012010
Because Thomas Jefferson High School isn't a school that receives benefits from Box Tops, our chapter will choose a school or charity that will receive all the Box Tops we collect throughout the year. On Tuesday, we'll vote on where the Box Tops will go. Here are the schools/organizations we will vote from:
Woodmere Elementary
Shirley Johnson/ Gretna Park ElementaryMcDonogh No. 26 Elementary
Gretna Middle
Baptist Friendship House
The schools listed above are low performing schools that are connected in one way or another to Thomas Jefferson. On the other hand, the Baptist Friendship house is a transitional housing program for women with children. They provide hygienic products and food to the homeless and run programs for women in the Greater New Orleans community such as GED tutoring, computer skills, job readiness, etc.
If anyone would like to suggest another organization or school to put on the the list, please comment and explain why you would like to have that school/organization on the ballot. Suggestions are encouraged!
Our next meeting will be on the 13th.
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