Approximately 200 new members were inducted into McNeil’s two largest honor societies – National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta – Oct. 27.

“I felt honored to be part of an honor society that exhibits leadership and community service,” senior Eleanor Wakou said. “For NHS, I really liked the candle tradition. That was really cool, because normally I don’t see candle lighting at any other club activity. The speeches were also really nice.”

The induction started promptly at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria, and seats were filled with students and their parents. A welcome speech was given by Principal Courtney Acosta, as well as follow up speeches by the presidents of both clubs welcoming the new members into the organization.

Semi-formal attire was worn for the occasion. Light refreshments were also provided after the ceremony.

“I liked the cookies,” Wakou said. “My mom and dad were all taking pictures and it was very nice seeing everybody there.”

Mu Alpha Theta: Shauhin Ahmadian, Samantha Barufaldi, Claire Bean, Jake Becker, Kais Bhandari, Zachary Black, Vanessa Brinson, Anne Cao, Sarah Chau, Eunbin Cho, Rebecca Choi, Omer Coban, Matthew Dixon, Myles Dobbs, Jenny Dooley, Samuel Felice, Brooke Frank, Srija Ghosh, Ningxuan Guo, Marie Han, Giuliana Hays-Angelelli, Ashton Heitz, Kaylee Ho, Vinh Hoang, Varsha Nathan, Ashley Neves, Hannah Nguyen , Jessica Nguyen, Celine Nguyen, An Vu, Nicholas Pena, Christopher Perks, Josh Pevoto, Jason Phan, Kenyon Phillips, Alyssa Proulx, Hari Jeung, Mervin John, Sammy Ochoa, Sarah Jun, Jae Jung, Tahiya Khan, Mariam Khwaja, Karen Kim, William Kim, Amy Kim, Anastasia Kim, Nisha Kolagotla, Clara Lee, Felicia Li, Divya Malani, Ethan Manickavasagam, Kseiya Mathew, Bryce Matthews, Katie Maurer, Amritavarshini Mayavaram, Maria Maynard, Michael Mollenhauer, Sana Momin, Sharon Monagas, Adithya Sreenivasan, Jordan Stewart, Abishek Thakurathi, Vinh Ton, Faith Tormusa-Koroma, Ethan Tran, Joshua Trunick, Pranav Vijayan, Nikhita Rajan, Shriprama Rao, Akhila Ravikumar, Nikhila Ravikumar, Angelica Rojas, Sutrisna Roy, Yusra Salman, Varun Saravanabavan, Katharina Seemann, Hannah Sewell, Vinay Shah, Vicki Shon, Nikita Shrestha, Jenna Warfield, Rachel Wong, Isaac Sorensen, Matthew Wright, Brian Wu, Yoori Yoon, Alex Zhu, Bijan Ziaie

National Honor Society: Shauhin Ahmadian, Kayhaun Ahmadian, Kasi Balijepally, Haley Birt, Kevin Blaschke, Spence Blood, Nicole Bogusch, Blake Cedeno, James Chard, Sarah Chau, Justin Chen, Peter Chin, Rebecca Choi, Jason Chu, Kaymon Clark, Daniel Cole, Aubrey Crow, Ellen Davenport, Abigail Davis, Ishav Desai, Zachary Dorf, chinar Gandhi, Carrie Garrett, Matthew Golla, Amy Gravell, Delaney Hahn, Aubrey Hanus, Kathleen Hartman, Kyle Henke, Larissa Herold, Emily Hong, Swati Iyer, Douglas Janes, Marita John, Jungwoo Joo, Lindsay Katzman, Doungpakanh Keomaxay- Hampf, Sajid Khwaja, Micah Kinser, Hope Lawrence, Sanghyun Lee, Kate Leyendecker, Judy Li, Thuy-An Mai, Natalie Malluru, Mindy Maung, Morgan Mandeville, Hannah Markins, LaMondrea Marshall, Sutton Marvin, Abigail Mathew, Kyle Matteson, Dylan McCoy, Casey Meyer, Ethan Moeller, Emma Mokhtar, Mina Murasugi, William Nakata, Ashley Neves, Cathy Nguyen, Nathan Nguyen, Luc Nguyen, Anjali Nigam, Valyncia Nunn, Spencer Odendahl, Sophia Ojeda, Katherine Perks, Megan Ranus, Brandon Roebuck, Angelica Rojas, Mikaela Romain, Aditya Sankar, Arul Saraf, Cason Schindler, Nicholas Shomper, Isaac Sorensen, Samantha Stone, Nikita Telang, Jasmine Tumewu, Emilia Vieira, Vivian Vu, Eleanor Wakou, Allen Wang, Megan Warnick, Catherine Warrick, Laura Wimmer, Ashley Windom, Brianna Wren, Madeline Youngman, Sarina Zhou, Gianne Villaverde, Deepti Yogananda