MATTERS OF PRIDE LYONS TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL 2020-2021
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LYONS TOWNSHIP
HIGH SCHOOL
MATTERS OF PRIDE
2020-2021
Congressional Debate
Students took to Zoom and participated in six virtual
tournaments. There was plenty of concern about Zoom
fatigue with both practices and tournaments being
virtual, but students used the technology to engage
with teammates and students across the state in many
important social, economic, and political issues of
today. By February, the team was practicing in person
and on Zoom, which propelled us to one of our best
finishes ever at state; six of the LT competitors advanced
ACADEMICS to the semifinal rounds (or 10% of all semifinalists). By
year’s end, we had received 13 speaking awards and
seven presiding officer awards.
• Thirty-five National Merit Commended Students Cyberpatriots
• Despite operating in full remote throughout a
• Ten National Merit Semifinalists
significantly modified season, CyberPatriots fielded two
• Ten National Merit Finalists competition squads. In the equivalent of this year’s
• One hundred ninety-eight LT seniors State Round, the Platinum Tier-qualifying team posted a
were named Illinois State Scholars for 5th place finish, while the Gold Tier-qualifiers managed
outstanding academic a 14th place finish among Illinois high schools.
achievement. • Two team members were named Scholars in the 2021
National Cyber Scholarship Competition. They were
each awarded a $2,500 scholarship for a college of
their choice and free access to this summer’s Cyber
Art Foundations Academy.
• Four student-artists captured honors in the annual
Chicago Area 4 X 5 Art Exhibit, with one 1st place
winner and three Honorable Mentions. Family, Career & Community
• Thirty-eight pieces of artwork created by student- Leaders of America
artists were recognized in the Scholastic Art Awards Although the regional competition did not take
competition. Eleven advanced to the national place, members were active remotely throughout
competition, where two national silver medalists were the year. FCCLA members planned and coordinated
named. meetings and participated in a wide variety of
activities, including hands-on demonstrations for each
meeting from culinary to pastry arts and even friendly
Business Professionals of competitions in plating, food art and a bake-off.
America
At the State Leadership Conference, six students placed Fishing Club
among the top in their individual events and one The Club is having an outstanding season. Two students
team placed in the top five, qualifying for the National qualified for the Illinois Bass Fishing Coaches Association
Leadership Conference. There were three multiple (IBFCA) Illinois Coaches and Students State Tournament
winners, who will compete in multiple categories at the (ICASST) in the Illinois Bass Nation State series.
national level.
French
Class Board ‘23 • Forty students won medals with an additional 57
The 2023 Class Board collected more than 40 bags of students earning honorable mention in the 2021 AATF
clothes and outerwear - enough to completely fill an National French Contest Grand Concours. One student
8-passenger van! - to donate to The Salvation Army was named a Platinum winner, the highest award in the
in Oakbrook Terrace. Many thanks to the generous LT Le Grand Concours, earning the top score in the nation
community. in the level/division.
• Three LT French students attended the annual AATF
“Journée Intensive en Français” Day sponsored by the
University of Chicago via Zoom.
• One senior won the AATF trivia contest during
National French Week.
Interact Club Menagerie
Club members wrote letters to teachers to welcome The 2020 edition of Menagerie earned its first Pacemaker
them back to school. Halloween cards were created Award from the National Scholastic Press Association - the
for service people through the "A Million Thanks" most prestigious award for a literary-art magazine in the
program. A food drive was held, with items picked up country.
from porches and delivered to a Westchester food
2020 Menagerie also earned the following awards:
pantry. A virtual recipe exchange was created and
• Most Outstanding High School General Magazine
the proceeds were used to sponsor one child in our
- American Scholastic Press Association
area. Students contributed to "Project Love Letter" and
became pandemic pen pals with senior citizens. • First Place with Special Merit - American Scholastic
Press Association
Investment Club • Silver Crown - Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Investment Club hosted guest speakers from investment • Gold Medal - Columbia Scholastic Press Association
companies and corporations. Members competed in a • All-American with Five Marks of Distinction - National
global investment competition for the first time. After the Scholastic Press Association
wild market volatility during the first half of 2020, students
positioned their virtual portfolios of $100,000 to grow as • Superior - National Council of Teachers of English,
the market reached new highs. A virtual partnership REALM
with high school clubs across the country broadened
members’ exposure to speakers and information. Music
• Twenty-eight students were selected for the ILMEA
Latin District Ensembles in band, orchestra, choir, jazz band
and jazz choir. Of the 28 students selected at the district
Latin Club Certamen Teams - Latin 1, Latin 2 and Latin level, 6 LT students were named All-State musicians.
3/4 - all finished in 3rd place in the South Region.
• Over the past year, the band, choir, orchestra, jazz
band and marching band programs have given seven
Lion virtual recorded concerts and 15 in-person concert
• Lion staffers netted more than one dozen awards performances.
from the Illinois Journalism Education Association print
and online contests, including four 1st place wins,
four 2nd place awards, six 3rd place finishes and four
Honorable Mentions.
• At the Northern Illinois School Press Association annual
contest, Lion earned Silver Certificates for the overall
website and newspaper. In individual contests, print
staffers earned three Blue Ribbons and one Honorable
Mention, while the online/web contests resulted in two
Blue Ribbons.
LTTV MODEL UNITED
The LTTV staff digitized hundreds of archival programs,
including sports, music concerts, school events and
NATIONS
other original programs from the 1980s to the early
2000s. They have gradually been uploading these • Model UN attended 10 virtual conferences. The
programs to YouTube and to Google Drive and sharing team placed 1st three times and 2nd twice. LT had
these memories with alumni and the community. 81 individual award winners with 44 1st places, 19
2nd places, and 18 3rd places.
Math Team • MUN hosted its own virtual conference,
• Math Team competed in five virtual meets second LYMUN VII. More than 500 students from
semester. The Frosh-Soph 8-person team placed 1st at 32 schools participated, including
Regional and automatically qualified for State. one from Lyon, France.
• Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior teams each placed
2nd at Regionals and the overall Math Team placed 2nd
out of nine teams at the Regional Meet.
• A total of 174 Students were admitted to Mu Alpha
Theta, the National Math Honor Society.
National Honor Society
Members logged 4,511 hours of service from April
2020-March 2021 and four Presidential Service Award
winners were named:
• 3 Bronze Awards for volunteering between 100-174
service hours for the year
• 1 Silver Awards for volunteering between 175-249
service hours for the year
NHS will induct 362 new members, including 352 juniors
and 10 seniors.
RECYCLING CLUB
Peaceable School Initiative
• PSI hosted two virtual forums where students and
staff communicated about LT and shared ideas and
The Recycling Club shifted from in-building pa-
solutions.
per and plastic recycling to collecting house-
• During the PSI Study Break, more than 60 students hold items to be recycled. In January, students
virtually prepared for finals by either studying with a collected 15 large bags of holiday lights, in
teacher or their peers or relaxed and learned stress March, collected and packaged 800 pounds
relief techniques. of used batteries, and in May, collected
• More than 300 holiday baskets were assembled by electrical cords. All three drives were so
PSI volunteers with donations from the LT community for popular in the community that the
the Off the Streets Club. club plans on making these
annual events.
• During two days in March, more than 200 students
virtually attended the PSI PEP Fair, featuring a virtual
calming room and student-run sessions with topics
ranging from laughter to leadership.
Robotics
Five teams, comprised of 28 students, both remote
• PSI Week in April encouraged students and staff to and in person, participated in three tournaments. Four
be thankful, meet new people and participate in acts teams earned spots at the Illinois State Championship.
of kindness, gratitude, and compliments.
The Baby Drivers Team won a regular season tourna-
ment championship, a skills championship and earned
Peer Leadership an Excellence Award. They were also crowned
State Champions and received an Amaze Award. Baby
• Club members collected and donated more than
Drivers also earned a Top 10 World Skills ranking.
100 “laundry kits” for BEDS Plus, a local homeless shelter.
The kits consisted of laundry pods, dryer sheets, and
money for the washer and dryer.
SAVE
• Peer Leaders collected and donated food for the St. • The SAVE Promise Club (Students Against Violence
Barbara’s Food Pantry. Everywhere) was reimagined virtually this year. Through
• Students wrote more than 75 Valentine’s Day cards a variety of virtual platforms, the club was able to bring
for the children at St. Jude’s Research Hospital. awareness about the Sandy Hook Promise Know the
Signs youth violence prevention program to LT students.
• Lyons Township elementary and junior high school
students were tutored in person at The Leadershop, • The club promoted the Start With Hello program,
thanks to Peer Leaders. which trains students how to combat social isolation,
and the Say Something program, which encourages
• The Club collected supplies to create comfort
youth to say something to a trusted adult if they see or
packages for troops through Operation Support Our
hear a threat, especially on social media.
Troops.
Pom Pon Science Olympiad
Varsity poms placed third at the Illinois High School Science Olympians had another great season placing
Association Competitive Dance virtual sectionals, 4th in state in the A Division and garnering three state
qualifying for the virtual state competition. Varsity poms championships.
also qualified for Illinois Drill Team Association virtual
state competition and placed second in Lyrical. Junior
varsity poms qualified pom, jazz and lyrical routines for
the Illinois Drill Team Association state competition and
placed 1st in Jazz, 2nd in Lyrical, and 4th in Pom.Social Action Club Theatre Board
Members participated in Project Love Letters and wrote Theatre Board ventured into the realm of virtual theatre
Valentine’s cards for children at Lurie Children’s Hospi- with original works, scripted plays, improvisational
tal. The Club helped run a Thanksgiving food drive for comedy, and a musical revue all performed and
local food pantries and raised money and shopped for presented digitally.
holiday gifts for students at PAEC Alternative Elementary
School. Students also helped clean up at Beamis Woods
Forest Preserve and are in the process of setting up an- WLTL
other food drive for St. Cletus Food Pantry. • WLTL was named Best High School Radio Station in
the Nation at the 2020 John Drury High School Radio
Speech Team Awards. This is the seventh time WLTL has received the
top honor since the awards inception in 2003.
Speech Team members earned four team placements
and several individual medals throughout the season, • WLTL won five 1st place trophies in individual
placing 5th overall at Regionals and advancing eight categories at the ceremony, including Best News
events to the sectional level. Feature, Best Promo, Best Specialty Music Program, Best
Social Media Campaign and Best Website.
Student Council • At the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Awards,
WLTL Student Managers were named Best in the Nation.
• Sponsored Project Love Letter during the month of A senior was named Best Student Station Manager as
February, which resulted in more than 3,000 anonymous well as Best High School On-Air Personality; another
letters being sent to various care facilities throughout senior was named Best Sports Director; and a junior
Chicagoland. staffer was named for Best Production Direction.
• Secret Santa program “adopted” 172 area children.
An additional $6,625 in donations was received, which
is the equivalent of an additional 53 adoptions. Athletics
• The All-School Assembly tradition continued Fall
despite the pandemic, as Student Council combined Boys' Soccer – West Suburban Conference Champions
performances from some of this year’s activities with
Boys' Cross Country – IHSA Regional Champions
footage from previous years’ assemblies and posted
two nights of video on YouTube. Go to the district Boys' Golf – IHSA Regional Champions
website and check the Student Council page at Winter
https://www.lths.net/Domain/130.
Girls' Basketball – West Suburban Conference
Champions
Pom Pon – 19th in IHSA State
Spring
(As of late-May several teams were still competing)
Boys’ Gymnastics: West Suburban Conference Champs
and State Champions
Boys’ Water Polo: Sectional Champs, State Qualifiers
Girls’ Water Polo: Sectional Champs, State Qualifiers
TABULAE College Athletes
• To date, 25 student athletes signed letters of intent to
play college athletics.
• One student was named to the IHSA All-State
The 2020 edition of Tabulae Academic Team and another was named to the
won the following awards: Honorable Mention All-State Academic Team.
• 1st Place – American Scholastic
Press Association
• First Class – National Scholastic
Press Association
• Gold Medal – Columbia
Scholastic Press
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MATTERS OF PRIDE
LYONS TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL 2020-2021
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, countless Zoom meetings, altered schedules, and
social distancing, Lyons Townshhip High School clubs and activities managed to
re-imagine events, participate and compete remotely and contribute and donate
in impressive numbers. This year called for creativity, ingenuity and positive attitudes,
and our student body delivered!
Everyone at LTHS - teacher, custodian, secretary, administrator, paraeducator -
contributes to the success of students. We realize none of these accomplishments could
be achieved without the help of our parents, volunteers and community members. This
publication was inspired to remind all of us of our combined achievements.
Matters of Pride is designed to highlight our achievements as a District. Team and club
accomplishments and several state and national honors are also underscored.
Please take a few moments to review our accolades and be sure to pat a student, staff
member and yourself on the back for a job well done.You can also read
