Lake Orion High School is again offering summer enrichment opportunies for students and adults!  Programs include ceramics classes for students and adults, and the Virtual Learning Lab, providing the opportunity for students to take core and elective courses for credit forward or credit recovery.  See the Summer Program page for more information!

Lake Orion High School Principal Stephen Hawley discusses the dangers of buzzed driving using an all-too-real crashed vehicle with members of the school's Leadership Workshop class (left to right) - Emma Berkal, Erica Roll, Kyle Bell, Bethany Kogut and Mike Losensky.

Of the ten program finalists in the Oakland Press/Oakland Schools Excellence in Education Awards Program, Lake Orion had three in the running: LOHS "Real Talk", Paint Creek "Go For the Gold Program" and Webber "Academic Booster Council", AND, Webber won 1st place!!! They won $1000 and a beautiful plaque.

The Academic Booster Council (ABC) is a peer mentoring program in which fourth and fifth grade students, referred to as "coaches", work with struggling lower elementary students, called "buddies", to master crucial, concrete skills such as math facts, sight words, letter/sound correspondence and number identification. The program empowers the older students to become even stronger leaders while the academic impact on the younger learners has been truly amazing.

Congratulations to Principal Sarah Manzo and Psychologist Michelle Showers for initiating this outstanding program and for being recognized as 1st place in the County!!

Thirteen Lake Orion High School students were delegates to the 65th Annual Michigan Youth in Government State Conference in Lansing, Michigan. They joined students from 36 other schools at the Capitol building to simulate the process of governing. Students passed bills they had written in a mock legislature, debated national proposals on a variety of issues, and prosecuted a court case in front of real judges.

Our Lake Orion delegates had a very successful conference. Two of their four bills were passed and signed by the Youth Governor, one national debate proposal was passed by the National Issues Forum General Assembly, and four of our students competed in the mock trial program. Two students earned specific recognition; senior Meghan Cuneo was awarded for the most outstanding proposal in the National Issues Forum (debate), and senior Gabby Bruno was recognized as the most outstanding member of the Governor's Cabinet. Click here for more information on the students involved in this conference.