Chesterton High School will honor 28 senior students with the Class of 2008 Academic Rings at the Academic Recognition Night sponsored by the school on Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the CHS Auditorium.

The students are: Andrew Bailey, Holly Brady, Christopher Brahos, Katrina Brechner, Aaron Dittmann, Nathan Erxleben, Frank Filippini, Claire Forszt, Riley Golden, Chelsea Gustafson, Steven Holbrook, Molly Johnson, Samantha Kattalia, Samuel Larimer, Chloe Lawson, Katrina Lutze, Matthew Mabry, Albert Miller IV, Kevin Nault, Payal Patel, Melissa Penfold, Ellen Queen, Cassandra Recker, Kevin Russell, Zachary Stemer, Sara Torabi, Scott Trepper and Amanda Vasquez.

The academic ring is an honor bestowed upon senior students at Chesterton High School who have met a rigid set of academic and cocurricular criteria. The ring resulted from a year of study by a faculty, parent and student committee. The idea of the ring was to recognize outstanding achievement by CHS students and to acknowledge their “renaissance” education.

The criteria for the ring is based on a 15-point scale. In order to earn the ring a student must accumulate 14 points or more and earn a cumulative 3.80 GPA by the 7th semester. It is the committee’s desire to recognize as many students as possible; however, the academic ring is intended to promote a totally well-rounded student who has met a high level of academic criteria.

Points for the academic ring are determined as follows:

1 point for every semester on Principal’s Honor Roll (7 points possible),

1 point for National Honor Society membership,

1 point for co-curricular participation each year (4 points possible),

1 point for 40 credits earned at seventh semester,

1 point for no grade below a “B” (seven semesters),

1 point for earning a 3.8 grade point average each semester.

Posted 4/9/2008