The various conferences are designed to simulate the activities of the United Nations. Membership in the National Honor Society is an honor bestowed upon a student. Election and selection for membership is based upon a high point average and the four criteria bearing equal weight, i.e ., scholarship, character, leadership and service. This dedicated organization continues to expand its horizons and become involved in an ever-broadening array of volunteer opportunities. Pathways is a career program involving Avon High School students with students from Simsbury, Granby, Windsor and the Sports Academy in Hartford.
Members attend two field trips per semester designed to explore and develop career readiness skills.
Students must maintain a C average, adhere to dress code and attendance policies. This is a friendship program wherein high school students in good standing serve as positive role models, reaching out in friendship to students in the elementary and middle schools. The high school students can be a source of encouragement to the younger students they are mentoring. It is not meant to be a tutorial or a baby-sitting program. The mentors and their younger students will meet for approximately one hour per week at each other s homes, the library, Fisher Meadows, or any other place of interest.