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Heritage High hands out Compass awards, academic honors and recognizes military commitments
Summary
During the Heritage High School Class of 2025 ceremony, staff presented medaled awards for values, recognized students with GPAs of 3.8 or higher and asked alumni and enlistees to stand.
Heritage High School presented a series of student awards and academic recognitions at its Class of 2025 graduation ceremony at the Vine Center.
Staff presented medals recognizing seniors who exemplified the school’s motto traits — welcoming, encouraging, achieving, responsible and engaged — and awarded the Compass Award, the school’s highest honor, to Siona Kungu. The staff described the true Pioneer Award as symbolized by a compass and intended to recognize a graduate who “best embodies our most revered qualities.”
The ceremony also recognized graduates who had committed to military enlistment; staff asked those students to stand so they could be acknowledged. An award segment announced honor graduates and called students with a GPA of 3.8 or higher to the stage.
During student remarks, Sierra Hester stated the class had accumulated $4,000,000 in scholarship money; the recognition segment then proceeded to call numerous honor graduates by name. After awards and student speeches, a school official closed the ceremony and pronounced the graduates, invoking authority from “the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Lynchburg City School Board.”
The presentations and recognitions at the ceremony were ceremonial and celebratory; no policy or board decisions occurred during the event.
