Recognition Criteria
Athletics
Possessing natural and trained aptitude for excellence in competitive sports, while exhibiting sportsmanship, team spirit, and grace in victory and defeat and/or demonstrate achievements in physical education classes and extra curricular activities.
Citizenship
Exhibiting continuous courtesy, thoughtfulness, and service to others, obvious both in and out of the school environment.
Creative Arts
Talent and obvious achievement in drama, speech, dance, theatre production, music, painting, sculpture, design, graphics, visual arts and extra curricular programs.
Diversity
Demonstrates acceptance and respect of individual differences and cultural traditions.
English Language Arts
Skilled in reading, writing, reading comprehension, poetry, creative writing, school newspaper, exceptional written and spoken vocabulary.
Foreign Languages
Achievement in a language other than English for communication that exhibits cross-cultural skills and understanding.
Mathematics
High achievement in logical thinking, mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry processes and concepts, numbers-their forms, arrangements, sets, relationships, and properties.
Perseverance/Effort
Demonstrating achievement by overcoming obstacles. Showing a willingness to extend high levels of effort and resolve in the face of adversity.
Sciences
Exceptional ability in the observation, identification, description, and investigation of natural phenomena. Success in methodical experimentation, recording, and explanation.
Technology
Achievements in computer and technology classes and extra curricular programs.