Although NHS is going to be quite similar to last year, new NHS students and old NHS students will experience many changes, such as a change in advisers and other changes.

As of this school year, Jennifer Magdal will be the new adviser to the school’s National Honors Society (NHS), taking over for Julie Schilz.

Rachel Potter, president of NHS, said she is excited about the new adviser but will miss Schilz.

“Ms. Schilz was a great adviser for years so I’m sad she’s not able to do NHS,” she said. “At the same time, I’m really happy Mrs. Magdal is the new adviser because she’s very helpful and enthusiastic.”

As the new adviser, Magdal said this year they are going to be implementing more rules and following the NHS handbook.

“We are going to have Chapter bylaws, required by the National Honors Society, we hadn’t had that before,” she said.

Potter said last year they had some issues with rules and to avoid that all students will get handbooks this year.

“Each student received a handbook and the rules come directly from National Honor Society Constitution,” she said. “This should solve any potential problems there were from last year.”

This year NHS is in C350 rather than the theater like last year, allowing more activities, Magdal said.

“We are going to do more group activities that we couldn’t do in the theater,” she said.

The officers are enthusiastic about this year and there are also going to be a variety of choices for activities, Madgal said.

“This year we have highly excited and motivated officers and people can expect a ton of options,” she said.

Other changes include using social media to reach students, and more activities Potter said.

“We want to focus on making all the meetings meaningful. We decided to have an activity at each one,” she said. “Also, this year we are reaching out to people through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and phone notifications.”

All in all, most of NHS is going to be the same Potter said.

“There are several small changes, but the heart and soul of NHS is still the same,” she said.