Get Involved!
NCVPS offers many ways you can participate in extra-curricular activities.
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Listen, Learn, and Lead
Culture Café Speaker Series
The Culture Café hosts hour-long lectures on various cultural topics in Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Latin, and Arabic to broaden our students’ cultural and world views. Our aim is to bring the majesty of the foreign cultures we teach to our students, and inspire our students to travel abroad and immerse themselves in the places and cultures we are studying.
IworkNCVPS Speaker Series
IworkNCVPS is a virtual career exploration series hosted by NCVPS in partnership with the North Carolina Business Committee for Education. The series features a diverse group of industry leaders from across North Carolina and supports student exploration of career opportunities in North Carolina with a focus on education requirements, getting the job, daily responsibilities, industry environment, and the importance of following your passions when choosing a rewarding career. IworkNCVPS has over 50 archived sessions available including presentations by professionals as well as teenage entrepreneurs.
Seek, Serve and Succeed
Peer Tutoring Center
The NCVPS Peer Tutoring Center (PTC) is students helping students. The purpose of the PTC is to support students in being successful in and outside of the virtual classroom. Services offered to students include peer tutoring, Virtual Buddy mentoring, tech support, the TutorTalk blog, the Writing Center, and Student Research Alliance. PTC volunteers are actively engaged in all aspects of the organization’s operations including problem solving, decision making, training, blogging, and marketing which takes the volunteers well beyond the usual classroom experience.
Tutor Talk
The Peer Tutoring Center’s blog, TutorTalk, is a student-created and maintained online blog which delivers engaging online articles about topics that help with anything from schoolwork, to test anxiety, time management, and a variety of other topics.
Student Research Alliance
The NCVPS Student Research Alliance is a unique opportunity for high school students to conduct original research on topics of interest related to NCVPS courses. The goal of the program is to provide a platform for innovation and to create resources for students to deepen their understanding of specific course content.
Create, Collaborate, and Cultivate
Japanese Honor Society
For students who have completed the first term of their second-year Japanese language course in middle/junior high or a senior high school and have maintained a 3.5 GPA in Japanese courses and an overall GPA of 3.0.
For more information, contact Revae Bostwick (revae.bostwick@ncpublicschools.gov)
Japanese Club
For any student enrolled in a Japanese courses or interested in learning more about Japanese culture.
For more information, contact Revae Bostwick (revae.bostwick@ncpublicschools.gov)
Arabic Honor Society
For students who have completed 1.5 years of high school level Arabic study and who meet the following criteria:
Have a demonstrated average GPA of 3.5, 90%, or its equivalent across all Arabic courses.
Have a current GPA of 3.0, 85%, or its equivalent across all courses.
Maintain these grade averages each semester in order to maintain membership.
For more information, contact Ellen Hart (ellen.hart@ncpublicschools.gov)Â
