<p>I went to the Awards Ceremony at my high school a few nights ago (I'm a junior). It was formal and stiff, invitation only. The focus was primarily on scholarship presentations. There were only 15 Outstanding Student Awards given in a school of over 1500 students, and very few of the classes were represented -- no arts, science, math, French.... It was weird. I don't know if teachers boycotted it or what!
Last year I went to a different high school, and the Awards Ceremony was much larger for a much smaller school. The atmosphere was celebratory and focused on recognizing many students' achievement, including Presidential Fitness awards, etc.</p>
<p>At our school, very few juniors attend. It's very senior-focused, with every department (including PE) giving one or two Outstanding Senior Awards. The top 8 ranked juniors get various college book awards. The main point of the night is to announce the big senior leadership awards that are named after past principals and whatnot. I thought it was nice, but kind of long (an hour and 45 minutes).</p>
<p>every class has a class award, and there's like fine arts, academy, sports, and community service plaque awards, which u get for the numbers of hours u participate. in addition, there's the fine arts award, sports award, academy award, all-around award, which only seniors get usually.
mostly seniors get the awards, but then if you have teacher's favor, even freshman can get the awards also.
the attendence isn't mandatory (i went in sophomore, but didn't bother going in junior)</p>
<p>We've got a few award night type things. After seniors finish their senior projects, they have an award night for that. Then there's a night for junior college book awards. Then there's senior scholarship night. Those three anyone can attend but it's not mandatory. Then there's the regular class awards, which are presented during school in front of all juniors and seniors. Those are where each teacher picks one junior and one senior to get their award. Underclassmen take classes in what we call 'teams', and they do their own awards.</p>
<p>At my school only students with a 4.0 or above are allowed to come. They do a really long scholarship presentation. Then the head of each department presents the department awards. One person from each grade will recieve an award in each subject.</p>
<p>we have departmental awards and a couple of all around citizenship/athletic awards that are awarded as well. Its relatively formal and mandatory for all students to go. Most people dont really care about it cause most of the awards go to a really small number of people (a lot of people win more than one prize, even though there are a total of 20 or so given out to the whole school)</p>
<p>Our awards ceremony was extremely formal with senior scholarships and departmental awards and you could only enter if you had an invitation. The maximum number of underclassmen that could attend from each grade were 5, as the 5 departments at our school (English, World Language, Science, Social Studies, and Math) gave an award to the best student in the grade in each department. Although, it is slightly odd, as there is not limit to the number of awards one could win and only two Freshmen attended since, I received 4/5 departmental awards for our grade. Furthermore, for some odd reason, the also gave me the Senior Department Award in math. So, all in all, it was a messed up awards ceremony.</p>
<p>for mine, anyone can go. but people generally don't because it's boring. and no we don't give out class awards or anything. just recognition for people who win awards outside of school.</p>
<p>Uh.. formally light? It has the appearance of a formal convocation, but the atmosphere is generally light. Awards for top in classes, GPA, EC awards, and various scholarship/academic awards.</p>
<p>At my school, it's invitation only, and all grades are represented for a variety of awards. It's actually nice, because a lot of people are included. The seniors are not present, though. They get their awards at graduation.</p>
<p>This year the awards ceremony is in June, about two weeks from now.</p>
<p>At my school, it's strictly Senior Awards Banquet. You're invited, but not required, to attend if you won something, and you're welcomed to invite people or just show up, but a lot of people show up hoping to win something, not realizing you get invited if you won something.</p>
<p>It's mostly scholarship presentations (ones you knew you were getting or ones you didn't; there's a total of around 50), and like... seven awards are presented including Valedictorian and Salutatorian. There's really no awards to give at our school, I guess. Most of them are normally presented elsewhere, in their respective banquets (band awards at the Band Banquet, football awards at the Football Banquet, etc.).</p>
<p>It's a pretty laid back event, but it can start to hurt your hands after a while. =]</p>
<p>we have 3 ATHLETIC awards ceremonies-very formal, they yell at you if not in a nice dress, etc...but NO academic awards...they hand out awards in the morning during homeroom</p>
<p>honestly, the only awards they give out are "top in chem/bio/physics"...nothing else for underclassmen. there are senior awards given out, but it's basically 1 per subject area, and nobody can get more than 1, even if best.</p>
<p>boring as hell. when freshmen, sophomores, and juniors go up for their 4.0 awards, it's just one huge crowd standing there for fifteen minutes. hate it.</p>
<p>We have sports awards every term...every coach gives a speech, the team gets participation certificates, then awards for most valuable, most improved, and sportsmanship. Then there's a random awards ceremony where people get recognized for clubs. And then there's the other awards ceremony...they give out department awards for each grade and the sweater girl is announced and there's some other awards for stuff. We have to be in formal dress for all of these. And they're really long. And really boring.</p>
<p>There was a big thunderstorm the night of our award ceremony last year. Partway through, you could see the janitors and principal scrambling to find buckets and blankets as the roof started to leak. Meanwhile, the dept. heads continued to announce subject awards as if nothing was wrong.</p>