Alec Consuelos and Emily Tantarelli received a Hispanic Recognition Program Award, Jacob Steidinger, student representative, reported at the Nov. 19 Northwestern Lehigh School Board meeting.

Steidinger continued, telling board members 5,000 students had beenchosen for an award from a total of 250,000 who took the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Brandon Herb, Mike Sipos, Jacob Wiersch and Alissa Smith were commended for their academic progress as shown in the PSATS. They were in the top 5 percent of 1.5 million who took the test.

Lauren Anderson received the National Black American Recognition Award.

Sarah Heiter was inducted into the Lehigh Career and Technical Institute's National Technical Society.

Five freshmen, Skyler Hancock, Cora Agsten, Phillip Dangello, Mary Johnson and Anna Horn, were honored for displaying great citizenship, academic improvement and excellent behavior.

A Nov. 13 blood drive brought in 62 donations. Northwestern had the lowest rate, 13 percent, of Lehigh County students unable to donate blood for health reasons.

There were 33 students inducted into the Science National Honor Society and 43 in the National Honor Society on Nov. 13

The Makers group will be visiting the elementary schools Dec. 3 to make holiday snowflakes for the students after the children design them online.

Schloastic Scrimmage will be competing Dec. 10. Members of the Science Olympiad will be headed to Islip, Long Island, N.Y., for an invitational.

The Home Invitational has filled its slots with 36 teams entering.

Diversity Days was held Nov. 24-25. Workshops included line dancing, martial arts demonstration, Peace Corps and experiences in Liberia, American Sign Language, making dreamcatchers, Think Equality: How Being a Feminist Has Changed My Life, Salsa dancing lesson, My Experience with Diversity on a College Campus, Zumba lesson and Beyond the Cornfields: A Tiger's Lesson Learned.

On Nov. 26, there was an Assembly of Interfaith Panel and Expressions of Faith in dance, song and artwork.

The program included The Heart of all-Calling the Circle, Universal Song of Hope, Native American Dance and Song, Hindu Song and Yoga, Jewish Poem in Hebrew and English, a musical sharing of the poems of Rumi, a Sufi poet and mystic of Islam, and Christian Sacred Dance.

The event closed with a Unity Song of All Hearts.