This month, Owatonna’s National Honor Society chapter will host a bean bag tournament. The National Honor Society is a national organization that recognizes students who excel in four pillars. Those four pillars are citizenship, leadership, service and scholarship. Owatonna’s chapter has 129 members.
The upcoming bean bag tournament is a fundraiser to raise money for NHS as a way to help continue their chapter and be able to host events throughout the year.
Adviser Mitchell Dinse said, “[The fundraiser will help with things like] getting together and just having some social events, having snacks at those, and just keeping our chapter going strong with some of the expenses that we go through throughout the year.”
Board member Izzy Radel said that they chose a bean bag tournament because of a previous event that they put on earlier this year. Radel said, “The NHS pickleball tournament was a huge success, so we wanted to give students another opportunity to compete and have fun, which is why we’re excited to put on the NHS bean bag tournament.”
To play in the tournament, there is a QR code that can be accessed on their Instagram. This tournament will be hosted on March 16 at 6 p.m. in the commons at the high school. It will cost $1 to watch, and it will be $5 to play. If a team is playing in the tournament and brings a set of bean bag boards, the team can play for free.
There is an opportunity for people to dress up, if they would like. Dinse said, “We’re doing kind of a silly theme where we’re going for backyard, grill dad type of fits and just kind of thinking springtime and outside and picnics.”
NHS will host their Color Run on Saturday, May 11, as their large group service project.
