001tell me again [Music] you decide no what following the line doesn't matter uh um might be locked right here says ah there she is let's go so oh is oh tonight yes wow um hey good afternoon my name is hiley and my name is lindsey d'angelo we are the faculty advisors for the dodd chapter of the national junior honor society so on behalf of dad middle school we would like to welcome you to this afternoon's induction ceremony to start our ceremony we would like to introduce erelua adesola who will lead us in the pledge of allegiance would everyone please stand i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to be a father for stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all we would like to begin
002this assembly by welcoming dr jeffrey solon cheshire public school superintendent god's assistant principal mr john ferracino and the national junior honor society inductees please join me in welcoming mr woods our dog principal for the opening remarks good afternoon it it's with great pride and honor that i congratulate the 2022 inductees to the dodd middle school national junior honor society looking over the characteristics of the national junior honor society i cannot help but reflect on how vital each of these characteristics are needed in today's society we are in the midst of unprecedented times to say the least with the hopefully tail end of a global pandemic an unjust war over the ukraine and significant economic changes today's inductees face many challenges ahead of them the years ahead are uncertain but one can say let's make an
003impact and define what the end result is going to be through kindness and strong character this year's inductees have embodied the characteristics characteristics of scholarship service to others leadership citizenship and strong character these traits will prove very valuable for human rights for the measurement of success is not the collection of material things but is the manner in which we are remembered by others this ceremony is only one milestone on your path to success let this induction spark your drive to further develop the principles of the national junior honor society strive towards academic success in all environments whether they may be in person or remote reach out to support others in times of need and listen to those who may just need to be heard demonstrate good character and citizenship by participating in conversations or taking
004action for your beliefs finally use your talents to lead in a manner that brings people together and does not look to separate for any reason as you continue to develop these traits there will be no limit to what you can achieve not only in school but in life congratulations again to all of you our inductees and their families on this impressive accomplishment [Applause] we would also like to extend our appreciation to the faculty and staff who are instrumental in the preparation and presentation of this ceremony mrs laurie braun mr dominguez rivas mr patrick cruz and mr mike selene and finally welcome parents grandparents relatives and friends here in person or viewing virtually we're here to acknowledge the accomplishments of this year's inductees to the national honor society on behalf of the administration faculty and staff
005congratulations to you the inductees this afternoon's program is to recognize your scholastic and personal achievements [Applause] so the national honor association determines the qualifications and selection process for the national junior honor society the candidates need to earn a 4.0 gpa or higher after the four marking periods of seventh grade the list of candidates was reviewed by a faculty panel for the qualities of leadership scholarship citizenship character and service each candidate provided a list of his or her community involvement various activities and service commitments from the past two years this year the members of njhs here at dodd have participated in various community service projects both individually and in groups it was wonderful to see the different interests that these students had one group raised money for where the love is an animal shelter in hampton
006another group collected school supplies for the hampton school supply closet and upcoming projects include a food drive for the cheshire food pantry and a toiletry drive for women in need today a few student groups will share their projects with you we'd like to welcome suchita srinivasan nina moutinho grace yang and ashley pang to discuss their service project so you can get a small glimpse of their success and hard work you guys can come on [Applause] our project involves donations of books to new haven experience a local nonprofit organization founded in 2001 the organization aims to give back to the community and inspire they have donated over 2 million books in the time since along with tutoring almost 300 children here today they continue to send us to children and families to build a love for
007literacy and for their community around them starting in 2001 christina founded the cookbooks initiative in 2008 the kindergarten at open due to community today four years later nhr hosted its first senior spelling bee raising over two hundred thousand dollars finally in 2017 nhr celebrates 15 years with a ceremony presented by commander tony our book drive will be held from march 28 through april 1st students can bring donations ranging from children's books to adult books these donations can be deposited in the blue blue bins which will be located in team hallways we started a planner project in november our process consists of various steps such as organizing project details creating posters locating our collection boxes and finally posting our book drive which will occur next week [Applause] during the process of our project our group learn
008the fundamental skill of collaboration specifically for communication despite the pre-existing relationships within our group we learned quickly that friendships don't guarantee communication between team members we were all eager to come up with an idea put it into action but it was the communication between those stages where we struggled it could be said that texting is not the world's most efficient form of communication but through perseverance and holding a common goal we were able to effectively communicate and share ideas in the building of our project thank you [Music] okay next we welcome charlotte goudelier and delaney van nuy to discuss their project and what they've learned [Applause] good afternoon i'm charlotte boudilier and i'm delaney benvenuti this year we have the opportunity to better help the community for our service project we decided to host a
009teddy bear we donated the stuffed animals we collected to the connecticut children's medical center the reason we did this project is that some kids in the hospital won't receive gifts for christmas we wanted to give those kids a joy of receiving a gift just like we do giving is not just about making a donation it is about making a difference is in quote by kathy calvin ceo and president of the united nations foundation we believe that we made a difference and gave these kids hope this project benefited the families of sick children because they might not want they might not have been able to afford gifts because of the cost of medical bills we learned that others lives aren't as fortunate as ours one of the pillars of njhs that this embodies in our opinion
010is leadership we took control of the project and completed it entirely on our own we received some assistance from miss kylie who assisted us in pitching the concept to mr woods and getting things started we did however hang all of the posters and came up with the idea we also packed and delivered to a ccmc warehouse leadership in our opinion is the most appropriate pillar to be expressed the effort being put into this project and a special thanks to my dad who delivered the teddy bears for us so we also had a couple of project projects that supported don the dodd community itself so catherine kyle is going to discuss her project to support the dog drama program [Applause] hi thank you all for coming my name is catherine kyle and i held the drama
011drive here at dodd um thanks to my history teacher mr connolly for giving me the idea of the name um so on friday march 11th the school participated in a drama drive where they wore pajamas and brought in monetary donations to to support the drama program here at thought we raised over 150 dollars for future shows here at dub i was very lucky to be the cook in the play matilda jr here um just this past weekend and it was an amazing experience the cast was great and some of them are here [Music] and um the teachers and the staff that helped put it together were even more amazing shanley mr renti um miss golden all the other staff that let us do it um so i knew that due to covid um we were
012short on funds and i wanted to make sure that it never happened again because that was such an amazing experience and i wanted it to go on for years to come so i decided to help [Music] by doing this pajama job so thank you okay and finally we like to do a project as a whole group so something we can tackle all together and so we brainstorm different ideas and the group a very large group voted on improving the atmosphere in the dodd bathrooms so that was that was what they all voted on so ella credo is going to come up and discuss what the group has done so far to tackle this project you'll see we have a long way to go but they've done some really great work so far [Applause] hi i'm
013ella and i'm part of the national junior honor society recently at god we started a project preparing for the fact this project consists of remodeling slash adding modifications to the bathrooms that will make them more appealing and make them better benefit our community easier one modification we plan on doing is making the bathrooms more welcoming welcoming to the students our ideas include adding more color by putting on motivational posters and decorations another thing we plan on adding contributes to the poster idea we plan on putting up the rules and expectations expectations on the wall and poster form to help encourage respectful behavior we would also like to promote positive behavior not only through posters but on spartan lives this is a broadcasting video we do here at god every morning that tells you announcements gives
014you reminders and lets you know about the different activities that are going on [Music] the students in njhs have created shopping lists and amazon shopping list on amazon created design plans and made an inventory of what needs to be fixed here at dodd to improve the baskets since this is not an overnight project for the remainder of the year we will be executing these plans and the future njhs students can also continue on with the improvements thank you everybody and we are confident that this stellar group of students will continue to add to this list of services and accomplishments in the future we will now begin the candle lighting ceremony together knowledge and truth provide the initial spark for the five pillars of the national honor society scholarship leadership service citizenship and character emma sink
015will speak on scholarship and light the candle of scholarship [Music] the student who achieves scholarship is an eighth grader who has proven himself or herself academically by maintaining a cultured middle school grade point average of 4.0 or above [Music] [Applause] and light the candle of leadership [Applause] the student who exercises leadership is resourceful in proposing new problems applying principles and making suggestions she demonstrates leadership in promoting school activities and exercises influence on peers and public school ideals he contributes ideas that improve the civic life of the school they are able to delegate responsibilities and exemplify a positive attitude they inspire positive behavior they inspire positive behaviors in others and demonstrate academic initiative school leaders hold positions of responsibility conduct business efficiently and effectively and are reliable and dependable without fraud they demonstrate leadership in the
016classroom and in school activities we are thoroughly dependable in any responsibility accepted [Applause] and light the candle of service [Applause] student volunteers are dependable and well organized are gladly available and are willing to sacrifice to offer assistance they work well with others and are willing to take on difficult or inconspicuous responsibilities they cheerfully and enthusiastically render any requested service to the school they are willing to represent this class or school inter-class and interscholastic competition student volunteers do committee and staff work and show courtesy by assisting visitors teachers and students [Applause] catherine kyle will speak on citizenship and light the candle of citizenship [Applause] [Music] understanding the importance of civic involvement they have a high regard for freedom and justice and respect the american form of government we demonstrate mature participation and responsibility through involvement with
017such activities as scouting community teams and organizations and school clubs [Music] [Applause] bradley fang will speak on character and like the care candle of character [Applause] the student of character takes criticism willingly and accepts recommendations graciously they constantly exemplify desirable qualities of personality such as friendliness poise and stability they uphold principles of morality and ethics they cooperate by completing by complying with school regulations concerning property programs office halls etc they demonstrate the highest standards of honesty and reliability and observe instructions and rules both inside and outside of the classroom they manifest truthfulness in acknowledging obedience to rules avoiding cheating in written work and showing unwillingness to profit off the mistakes of others we actively help to rid the school of negative influences and show courtesy concern and respect for others [Applause] now that the five
018torches representing scholarship leadership service citizenship and character have been lit we would like to welcome dr solon mr woods and mr faracino for the distribution of our 2022 national junior honor society certificates and pins leah avagarde [Applause] shannon allen [Applause] vanessa anderson [Applause] j.c antonucci [Applause] delaney benvenuti [Applause] samantha bob [Applause] charlotte [Applause] tama kaplan [Applause] jason chang [Applause] zachary jason [Applause] ava sacon [Applause] emily de souza [Applause] ava to chica [Applause] lindsey nicola [Applause] deanna dixon [Applause] jessica dougherty [Applause] cooper duncan [Applause] sadie is back bradley thanks [Applause] steven fitzmaurice patrick fitzmaurice [Applause] ella freedom [Applause] foreign [Applause] adeline gallivan [Applause] ari get a senior brianna hawkins [Applause] annalise hull [Applause] wyatt jalawick [Applause] catherine kyle [Applause] griffin coaches [Applause] patrick jason blue [Applause] gabriella [Applause] savannah miller [Applause] sarah nina moutinho [Applause] ava
019amelia nielsen riley o'brien [Applause] lydia o'grady patel [Applause] elena paul [Applause] eva pearson ashley king [Applause] sophia pepper [Applause] alexander [Applause] phillips cameron poole [Applause] connor rayball [Applause] liam reeve [Applause] imani reed [Applause] giselle ribeiro patrick roth emily sandra [Applause] taylor shalabah georgiana sheehan [Applause] emma sink [Applause] abby [Applause] abigail smartest [Applause] breathing stress james sutherland maddie may tabor [Applause] cecilia torres [Applause] reagan tursky [Applause] ashley vernon [Applause] caitlyn giraffe [Applause] matthew watson [Applause] kyle reminder graciang [Applause] sagittae you stop seeing [Music] congratulations to all of our inductees for 2022. [Applause] sarah mullin will now be the inductees in the honors society pledge and students you can stand i pledge myself to uphold the high purpose of the national junior honor society to which i have been selected i will be true to the principles
020for which it stands i will be loyal to my school and i will maintain and encourage high standards of scholarship service leadership character and citizenship and now we welcome dr sullin to the podium for a few more remarks good afternoon everyone [Music] students today what an incredible accomplishment and you know i would say coronation but there's so much more to come for you uh mr woods mr parasino miss kylie and miss deangelo thank you for inviting me here today i'm honored to have the opportunity to provide some brief remarks to you and i'm humbled to be a small part of this incredible recognition that our students are receiving today it took talent commitment and character of our students to arrive here and in this year more than any other you needed to have perseverance and
021flexibility the dodd middle school national junior honor society class of 2022 has earned entry into a very prestigious group as a member it is an honor but it is also call to action the world today is in desperate need of creative problem solvers who possess the empathy to effectively understand and connect with others by your recognition today we're acknowledging that you have demonstrated the capacity to be a positive contributor an individual who has proven through your words and actions that you can make the world a better place i urge all of you to make the most of each other and work together to continue to be a shining example for dodd middle school and the cheshire community on behalf of everyone in the cheshire public schools i congratulate all of our inductees this afternoon and
022your families on this incredible recognition good luck and have a safe and exciting close to the school year congratulations these students are a wonderful reflection of their family and we are delighted to honor them today congratulations inductees and thank you for attending this afternoon this concludes our induction ceremony thank you for joining us today [Applause] yes cheers like great all right okay