The end of Semester 2, also referred to as the end of the year’s Renaissance honors San Dimas saint’s academic achievements and especially honors graduating seniors.
This year thespians, perfect attendance, the top 10 percent overall GPA of each class,
And the perfect ending to it all was senior Mila Mattson being announced as valedictorian. With her hard work as president of Mathletes, the environmental club, a tutor within the GOST squad, and consistency with maintaining her grades, the entire room was delighted to see her announced as valedictorian. Along with her, senior Joshua Ma was announced salutatorian.
Gold tassels were awarded to people that maintained a 3.5 to 3.999 GPA throughout the entirety of high school. Even more special, gold stoles were awarded to seniors that maintained a 4.0 or above GPA throughout the entirety of high school.
Fifteen people were awarded perfect attendance for one year, and three people were awarded for perfect attendance for two years. This year, no one was awarded perfect attendance for all four years, but Junior Ian Dang was awarded for an impressive 3 years of perfect attendance. When asked if he planned on making it to 4 years of perfect attendance as he reaches senior year, he responds with ”
National Honors Society students were also honored at this years’s Renaissance with medals.
Seven members and important leaders of Science Olympiad were also recognized, which couldn’t have been done without the endearing Mila Mattson.
Thespians Ava Gallagos, Christian, Steve, Izzy, and Elsa were recognized for their amazing contributions to the productions of the SDHS drama department. As grateful as we are for making their productions as great as they were this year, it is saddening to see them go since their performing skills were unbeatable this year, with Christian even receiving artist of the month at a moment this year.
To some people, learning new languages may just be some other graduation requirement to them, but some students see beyond this and decide to make the most of having an opportunity in high school school to gain literacy in another language. The importance and helpfulness of knowing multiple languages can be underrated, and sometimes even shamed since the world likes to place a lot of importance on English. As uniting of a language English is, being willing to put in effort to truly learn another language shows how insightful a student is willing to be while expanding their ways of language and communication is general; 11 seniors this year were awarded with the state seal of bi literacy for this type of effort.
Renaissance is not just an awards assembly for San Dimas’ top scholars, but it truly encourages Saints to be the best they can be ad to make the most out of what they have. Most importantly, seniors are recognized for outstanding academic achievement throughout their high school years. Sometimes there are students that aspire for high academic achievements, but without seeing others get awarded for their efforts, those dreams can sometimes seem unattainable. It should be known that everyone is capable of accomplishing whatever amazing thing they would like to accomplish, whether it be academic, artistic, athletic, or anything. Saints deserve to be recognized by the school for their hard work, and Renaissance is an assembly that does so with so much love and so much inspiration.
