NHS Scholarship Semifinalist

Walla Walla High School Student Awarded Prestigious National Honor Society Scholarship

The National Honor Society (NHS) announced that Turner Van Slyke, a high school senior at Walla Walla High School and member of NHS, has been selected as an NHS Scholarship semifinalist.

Since 1946, more than $25 million in scholarships have been awarded to outstanding NHS senior members to support college access and student success. The scholarship program is supported by the parent organization of NHS, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).

In the 100+ years since NHS was founded in 1921, members have been making a difference in their schools and communities, and the NHS Scholarship is NASSP’s way of recognizing the most exceptional of these student leaders. Recipients are chosen based on their demonstrated work to support the four pillars of NHS: scholarship, service, leadership, and character.

NHS advisor Kim Cassetto commends Turner for his daily commitment to improving the communities which surround him through the kindness he enacts and the resourcefulness he exhibits in raising climate change awareness. Turner has used his passion projects to ignite action among his peers. Walla Walla High School is proud of the legacy Turner leaves as a school-wide leader, change maker, and servant.

A dynamic leader both at Walla Walla High School and in the Walla Walla Valley, Turner has been a co-founder of the Students for Climate Action, is Green Club president, and is a member of the school’s Envirothon team which competed at Nationals last year. Turner has also served on the statewide Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) LEAP committee, is a student representative for the Gates Education Roundtable, is a multi-year member of the Walla Walla Public School’s Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee, and is an active member of Knowledge Bowl. Turner has devoted hundreds of hours providing trail maintenance, volunteer work for local organic farms, and established and maintained Walla Walla High School’s first school garden: The Patch. This fall, Turner will attend Stanford University to study Earth Systems or Public Policy. Turner is the son of John R. and Courtney Van Slyke.

For more information about the NHS, visit www.nationalhonorsociety.org