The Andes Central National Honor Society (NHS) is now offering the homework room to all high school students on Wednesday afternoons from 2:45 p.m. until 4 p.m. The homework room will be staffed by two NHS members with members rotating and each taking a turn. The homework room has been operating for a couple of weeks now and would love to have more students utilize the opportunity. They are hoping to eventually make it possible to have teachers in the homework room in order to better serve AC’s students.

NHS President, Nevaeh Morgan, would like to see more kids utilizing the program in order to get better grades and would like to see more students not wait until the end of the semester so that there is not such a rush to get homework done. Vice-president, Emery Bultje, hopes that the homework room will make it easier for peers to learn from each other; peers may be able to explain it in a different way than the teachers do to make it more understandable. Claire Johnson, secretary, sees the homework room as a great opportunity for students to stay up to date on homework. Riata Bultje, treasurer, views the homework room as a chance for upperclassmen and younger high school students to bond over homework and become more comfortable around each other.

NHS is open to sophomores to seniors with a 3.2 grade point average. Students who fall into the GPA and class requirements are sent applications to fill out which include an essay about their leadership positions, community service, extra-curriculars and character qualities. The homework room touches upon the service and scholarship pillars of NHS. The four pillars are service, character, scholarship and citizenship. The 2023-2024 NHS currently has 19 members and is led by middle school/high school counselor, Synnora Wilbur. NHS is planning on having a spring induction ceremony to formally induct new members.