National Honor Society Banquet

by ALICIA WALTER

    On March 31st, Mac-Hi held its annual National Honor Society Banquet. The banquet is an annual representation of how well the students of McLoughlin receive good grades.This is an desert banquet, so students bring store-bought and homemade goodies.  At the banquet, scholar students who have maintained a 3.5, or higher, receive a certificate and possibly a pin.

    Students won’t get a pin until their second year making honor roll, so freshmen have to wait until they become sophomores. Second year honor roll student get a certificate and a silver scholarship pin. Third year honor roll students get a certificate and a gold scholarship pin.

    Seniors who have managed to make this mark for four years receive a certificate and a gift card. This year, the gift card is to Ohana Frozen Yogurt because Mrs. Esser wants to “support a local business.”

    We had 120 kids in total who received a certificate this year. The award is based off of the first semester of each new school year. Remember to do your best the first semester so you can possibly receive your certificate. This looks good on college applications.

Mrs. Esser’s Climb to Stanford

by C.A. GREEN

Steffany Esser, Mac-Hi’s current Government and Foods teacher, has officially made plans to attend Stanford in Palo-Alto, California, for a Seminar this summer.

Thanks to her skills in college, during which time she became a Gilder Lehrman Scholar, the Gilder Lehrman Institute sends her information on such opportunities, which is how this one came her way. This being the first seminar she applied for, she’s slightly unsure how the experience will change her teaching methods and career, but is all smiles nonetheless and can’t wait to meet all of the many teachers from around the country that are going to be there.

She plans on taking a trip to one of our country’s most highly esteemed campus on July 24-29 and says she is ecstatic to see what the seminar has to offer. Being one of the 30 who was accepted to go to this seminar, Esser says that this seminar will focus specifically on the United States Supreme Court and how the court grew to have such a central role.Seminar participants will go back through historical court cases, such as Marbury V. Madison.

She explained how happy she was, saying that Stanford's campus sounds exciting and the topics have always interested her. She hopes to use what she learns in the classroom setting. From this experience, she said she hopes to gain “a deeper understanding of the role of the court in today’s society and how I can apply it in the classroom.”