On Oct. 17, a special ceremony was held at Nichols Hall to induct 58 upper school students into the National Honor Society (NHS). Established in 1921, the NHS recognizes students across the country who excel in what the organization calls the four pillars: scholarship, leadership, service and character.

The students inducted at the ceremony were: Rohith Bhethanabotla, Shivani Chandrashekaran, Rebecca Chen, Stephanie Chen, Mercedes Chien, Zareen Choudhury, Jennifer Dai, Nikhil Dilip, Darian Edvalson, Shenel Ekici, Shivani Gillon, Arjun Goyal, Anika Gupta, Areej Hasan, Saachi Jain, Trisha Jani, Zina Jawadi, Krishan Kumar, Aaron Lee, Christine Lee, Kristine Lin, Mary Liu, Mabel Luo, Varun Mohan, Dennis Moon, Maneesha Panja, Katherine Paseman, Sahithya Prakash, Srikar Pyda, Namita Ravi, Sapna Suresh, Monica Thukral, Namrata Vakkalagadda, Sameer Vij, Andrew Wang and Sean Youn, all grade 10; Molly Ellenberg, Varun Gudapati, Samantha Hoffman, Cecilia Lang-Ree, Preeya Mehta, Nikhil Panu, Laura Pedrotti, Shelby Rorabaugh, Kyle Roter, Nina Sabharwal, Pooja Shah, Pranav Sharma, Sonia Sidhu, Alan Soetikno, Hansa Srinivasan, Kathir Sundarraj, Apurva Tandon, Rachel Yanovsky and Robert Yeats, all grade 11; and Jaya Chandra, Angela Singh and Sona Sulakian, all grade 12.