<p>I'm just really curious about what other people do in the honor societies, specifically NHS. Because we don't do anything at all. I've heard that we might try and do something like tutoring elementary school kids next month, but I'm not sure if it'll actually happen. I have some friends at other schools and they say they have meetings and volunteer. So is my school just odd? Lazy? How much time do you guys actually dedicate to NHS? And do you do anything in the other honor societies?</p>
<p>We have at least one meeting per month where we are given service opportunities, such as can drives, auctions, etc. We are required to get 40 personal hours of service and 5 hours of tutoring in the school’s “Homework Help Center” throughout the school year.</p>
<p>Pretty much just tutoring for junior high and high school students.</p>
<p>I’m an NHS officer at my school. We have monthly meetings that are mandatory. Also, we do several activities as month. We do can drives, a “college day”, Meals on Wheels, tutoring, Carnation sales for breast cancer, daffodil sales, bell ringing for salvation army, we do a few soup kitchens, and other volunteer work in our community. You have to get a minimum number of points per semester to stay in, and you get them by doing the service activities. Wow, I thought all NHS clubs did stuff. For a while I thought ours was lame. Its basically a lot of fundraising for various organizations or helping the community. I feel more legit now.</p>
<p>NHS at my school have standard meetings about 2-3 times a month and often other volunteered meetings within.</p>
<p>Yea similar to these other posts. We meet a couple times a month, are told volunteer opportunities and are expected to use them to get the 20 hours/semester requirement.</p>
<p>My school has meetings once a month (we had the one for December today, actually), and we basically just discuss service opportunities that are available and ones that have already passed. We have different committees that organize the events, so the committee chairs talk about what’s going on with their committees and stuff. Then, we usually have some random guest speaker from the community that tells us to stay active with volunteering and blah, blah, blah. Everybody hates the meetings because they’re so long and drawn out. Lol. Oh yea, we have to have 60 hours by the end of senior year.</p>
<p>We sell chocolate. Nothing else.</p>
<p>Lmao, I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but our NHS is a JOKE! You get a 3.2 or better and have 1 or 2 clubs/athletics after Freshman year and you get in. Then, once a month, we have a pointless meeting where everyone’s least favorite teacher in the school (also the moderator of NHS) tells us the same old crap. Then we just get 12 service hours hahaha</p>
<p>i have no idea. i refused to join because it’s a club for a bunch of kids who volunteer because it “looks good for college.” i despise that…</p>
<p>We meet once a month, and we volunteer for the community. We have to do 18 hours of service (NHS-sponsored service, that is) per year.</p>
<p>I’m actually the president of our NHS… up until recent years our NHS wasn’t very active. This year we did multiple things for Red Ribbon Week. Gave little kids tattoos, dress up days, and we did podcasts with prizes for the high school. We also join with FCCLA and have a mentoring program. We have a blood drive in the spring that we sponsor. We just created a school awareness committee to keep students aware, obviously. (health issues, keeping items locked up… etc.) That’s all I can think of right now! Of course, we do more with the mentoring and such.</p>
<p>Well, things may have changed because this was twelve years ago, but when I was in the NHS at a private prep school, we did nothing. Ab-sol-ute-ly nothing. No meetings, no selling things, nothing. It was based solely on grades . . . Anyone above a certain GPA (I forget what) was in the NHS.</p>
<p>As I said, this was over a decade ago so things may have changed. I remember thinking at the time how ridiculous it was.</p>