{"id":9509,"date":"2023-08-30T21:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T02:27:31","slug":"mphs-students-earn-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-students-earn-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Students Earn Academic Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Students at Mount Pleasant High School earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Programs. These programs celebrate students&#8217; hard work in high school and showcase their strong academic performance. The academic honors for rural area, Black, Indigenous, and\/or Latino students are an opportunity for students to share their strong academic achievements with colleges and scholarship programs that are seeking to recruit diverse talent.<\/h3>\n<h3>At MPHS, nineteen students received at least one academic honor. National Rural and Small Town Award recipients included Gopi Amin, Nathaniel Cates, Nicholas Cates, Samuel Chappell, Clinton Debord, Jose Gonzalez, Sophie Greco, Abigail Gutierrez, Addison Heeren, Angelina Hernandez, Tanner Marshall, Yahaira Pina, Kiara Rundles, Orion Senence, and Luke Thurman. National Hispanic Recognition Award winners were Jose Escobar, Gonzalez, Greco, A. Hernandez, Stephanie Hernandez, Amir Martinez, Pina, and Diego Ugalde. Rundles also received the National African American Recognition Award.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to celebrate our students and recognize them for the great work they\u2019ve been doing. We\u2019re proud of their strong academic performance in the classroom and on College Board assessments like the PSAT\/NMSQT\u00ae and AP\u00ae exams,\u201d said MPHS Principal, Craig Bailey.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere\u2019s so much that makes our students unique, and receiving this honor reinforces this as an asset for their future.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>The criteria for eligible students include:<br \/>\n\u2022 GPA of 3.5 or higher.<br \/>\n\u2022 PSAT\/NMSQT or PSAT 10 assessment scores that are within the top 10% of assessment takers in each state for each award program or earned a score of 3 or higher on 2 or more AP Exams in 9th and 10th grade.<br \/>\n\u2022 Attend school in a rural area or small town, or identify as African American\/Black, Hispanic American\/Latino, or Indigenous\/Native.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming increasingly hard for students to be \u2018seen\u2019 during the college recruitment process. We\u2019re exceptionally proud of the National Recognition Programs for celebrating students who are at times overlooked but have shown their outstanding academic abilities,\u201d said Tarlin Ray, senior vice president of BigFuture\u00ae at College Board. \u201cThis is a benefit not only for students but also for colleges and universities committed to recruiting diverse and talented students.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Photo: MPHS College Board National award winners<br \/>\n1st row (L to R): Gopi Amin, Yahaira Pina, Jose Gonzalez, Amir Martinez<br \/>\n2nd row (L to R): Angelina Hernandez, Abigail Gutierrez, Stephanie Hernandez, Jose Escobar, Nathaniel Cates<br \/>\n3rd row (L to R): Kiara Rundles, Nicholas Cates, Addison Heeren, Clinton Debord, Diego Ugalde<br \/>\n4th row (L to R): Sophie Greco, Orion Senence, Tanner Marshall, Luke Thurman, Samuel Chappell<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Mount Pleasant High School earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Programs. These programs celebrate students&#8217; hard work in high school and showcase their strong academic performance. The academic honors for rural area, Black, Indigenous, and\/or Latino students are an opportunity for students to share their strong academic achievements with colleges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}