North Hills Senior Named National
Merit Scholarship Finalist
N
orth Hills High School senior Jordyn Hronec has been
named a 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program finalist.
Hronec represents one of the 15,000 students selected
for the nationwide honor. A total of 7,500 seniors will be
announced as National Merit Scholarship winners this spring.
She was one of the 16,000 high school seniors named
scholarship semifinalists in September and underwent an
application process during the intervening months to be named
finalists. Nationwide, semifinalists represent less than one
percent of U.S. high school seniors, and their ranks include the
highest-scoring entrants on the PSAT exam in each state.
Jordyn plans to attend college to study journalism and
political science. In 2016, she took classes at Stanford University
as part of the High School Summer College program.
At the high school, Jordyn is editor-in-chief of The Arrowhead,
the student newspaper, and co-president of the National Honor
Society. She performs in numerous choirs and various drama
club performances where she also has served as a student
director. She is a member of the Photo Club and French Club and
is the treasurer of the Japanese Club. In her free time, she works
at Northland Public Library.
The National Merit program is an academic competition
for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High
school students enter the National Merit Program by taking
the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
– a test which serves as an initial screening of approximately
1.5 million juniors in 22,000 high schools each year – and by
meeting published program entry/participation requirements.
West View
Raises Nearly
$9,000
to Fight
Juvenile
Diabetes
W
est View Elementary School students
and staff participated in a building-
wide walk and raised $8,848.50 to fight
juvenile diabetes. West View Elementary PTA
spearheaded the walk that utilized the school’s
gym decorated with hundreds and hundreds of
shoes in partnership with the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Fund.
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