By Steven Chen
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The National Honor Society (NHS) induction ceremony for the juniors accepted into next year’s club will be on March 29 at 2 p.m. at the Dale E. Graham Auditorium.

“I want to join NHS because I think it’s a good opportunity to give back to the community,” said applicant and junior Jae Han.

He has already turned in his application, which was due by March 11, and attended the preliminary call-out meetings.

Now, Han just has to wait for his application to be reviewed by the three sponsors, Deborah Haire, Jennifer Marlow and Michele Satchwell, to decide if he can join. If Han does make the cut, then he will be inducted at the one hour long ceremony.

Haire said, “(The ceremony) is when all of those students who apply to be in NHS, and if they fulfill the requirements, then we recognize them at a ceremony that Sunday.”

The club just finished sending out the applications for students who have higher than a 3.0 GPA, which is the minimum GPA required for members according to the NHS national Web site. The number selected varies from year to year, and the club has approximately 283 seniors this year.

“We have to go through and make sure that they meet the requirements,” Haire said. “If they make the requirements and don’t have any discipline issues, then they’ll probably be selected.”

According to the NHS’s national Web site, each chapter or school for the nonprofit organization establishes rules for its own membership that are based upon a student’s outstanding performance in the areas of “scholarship, service, leadership, and character.”

“Pretty much you volunteer for a certain community service project and you have to have a required amount of hours to be an eligible member of NHS. You apply as early as this year because you’re getting accepted for your senior year,” Han said. “I’m applying because I feel NHS is a society that’s going to help me be true.”