TSA Honor Society

Introduction

The TSA Technology Honor Society recognizes TSA members who excel in academics, leadership, and service to their school and community. The TSA Technology Honor Society is:

• an opportunity for student members to be recognized for their efforts.
• designed to recognize TSA members who exemplify the high ideals of academics.

The goals of the Technology Honor Society are:

• To motivate TSA members to work to improve and maintain high academic marks.
• To promote the undertaking of leadership roles in school and community organizations.
• To promote participation in service activities that benefit a school or community.
• To recognize student concern for chapter, school, and community.

Process

For Stuyvesant TSA, members may be selected or nominated for the Technology Honor Society in their 10th, 11th or 12th year.

The chapter advisor, with assistance from other selected faculty members and chapter officers, reviews the academic records of TSA members in the chapter. Students who meet the academic requirements are notified that they are eligible for the TSA Technology Honor Society. These students, if they wish to apply, must complete the TSA Technology Honor Society resume sheet to document the leadership and service activities they feel are important for Honor Society consideration.

They also must submit TSA Technology Honor Society recommendation forms from the TSA chapter advisor, from another teacher in the school, and from a school administrator. The chapter advisor reviews each student's resume sheets to determine eligibility for the Technology Honor Society. After review, the chapter advisor sends the names and corresponding resume sheets of the eligible chapter members to the state advisor.

The state advisor and the state officers review all submitted resumes and make final decisions as to who should be inducted into the state's Technology Honor Society. Students inducted into the Technology Honor Society at the state level automatically become members of the national TSA Technology Honor Society.

Students who are members of the Technology Honor Society at the middle school level do not automatically become members at the high school level. Students must reapply at the high school level. It is not necessary to have been a TSA member at the middle school level in order to be admitted at the high school level.

Chapter advisors and state advisors maintain records of all student resume sheets and a list of names of nominated members. State advisors submit the names of students inducted into the TSA Technology Honor Society, and their inductee fees, to the National TSA. (Resumes and recommendation forms are not submitted to the National TSA.)

Requirements

For a student member of TSA to be inducted into the TSA Technology Honor Society, s/he must first meet a set of specified standards or requirements. These standards cover three areas: academics, leadership, and service. (Note: items used for the middle school level application may not be used again for the high school level application.) The requirements are as follows:

Academics

Maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) based on a 4.0 grade point scale, or equivalent.
Maintain a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) based on a 4.0 grade point scale or equivalent in technology education classes, if currently enrolled in such classes.

Leadership

Hold at least one chapter, state, or national office, sufficiently fulfilling its duties for one full school year.
Hold an office in an organization other than TSA.
Attend at least one state and one national conference.
Place within the top three in a state or national TSA competitive event.
Be an active member of TSA in a currently affiliated chapter for at least one semester.

Service

Participate in a service project that benefits the school.
Participate in a service project that benefits the community.
Serve on a chapter, state, or national committee.
Give a presentation on TSA to an organization outside one's chapter (i.e., PTA school faculty, board of education, etc.).

Awards

TSA members inducted into the TSA Technology Honor Society are recognized at the national TSA conference for their achievements. They also receive a TSA Technology Honor Society lapel pin.

Fees

A $5 fee must be included with the Gold Achievement Award application and the Technology Honor Society award application in order for processing to proceed. These nominations are submitted online by the state TSA advisor.