LHHS Project Grad

🧑‍🎓💜👩‍🎓 CONGRATULATIONS 2026 Graduates!!!!

We are so incredibly proud of every single one of you! You make us proud to be Panthers! Have fun and be safe celebrating! 🎉 🎓

👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!!! All of your essays were so thoughtful and moving…these students consistently showed us with each essay that success is more than financial wealth.

Our seniors said that to them, success means a happy family, a loving marriage, staying true to your convictions and showing integrity, being a good parent, enjoying a healthy work-life balance, having a happy home, and having faith in God.

Thank you, Seniors, for being such an exceptional group of young adults. You have made LH proud! Congratulations to all of the graduates, and enjoy the memories you’ll be making tomorrow! Parents, savor every moment! Take all the pics! And have a blast celebrating your babies!

GO PANTHERS!

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today is the last day to submit your essays for the Project Graduation Scholarship!

We’ve had a lot of great submissions and can’t wait to hear who the winners are! Just as a reminder: once our committee has chosen the winners, we will be contacting each winner to let them know so that they can make plans to attend the Senior Awards ceremony on May 20th! So make sure to keep that date on your radar!

Go Panthers! 🤟🏼💜💛

‼️🚨 Major announcement:
In order to adapt to today’s culture around graduation season and all that entails, our board members have voted to change how we celebrate our Senior class.

➡️ This is an extremely busy season, not just for students, but also their families. Every year, Project Graduation attendance and interest has been in a sharp decline. Our administrators sent students interest polls earlier this year, and shared participation numbers with us, and the trend is drastically lower than last year.

➡️ Friends and family come from out of town, elaborate celebrations are planned, and families want to party together rather than have their Senior spend grad night away from them. We want to support that! 🎉 🎈🎊

➡️ We know this might be a huge change, but we have decided to celebrate our students’ accomplishments by awarding scholarships for an essay contest. Scholarships give students real, tangible rewards for all their hard work, and as we all know, the big world out there is expensive!

Scholarships for winners will be given at the Senior Awards Ceremony at LHHS on May 20th, 2026 (more details to come).

⬇️ Here is the info:

🟣 Must be a 2026 senior on track to graduate with peers
🟡 Essays are due by April 30th
🟣 Email essays as a word doc to [email protected]
🟡 Must be between 450-750 words
🟣 Essays will be checked for AI assistance, any essay found to be written with AI assistance will be automatically disqualified
🟡 Please include your contact information in the main body of the email, and what your plans are after graduation (we’re so excited for you!)
🟣 Essays will be reviewed by adults not affiliated with Project Graduation in order to maintain impartiality
🟡 We will contact essay winners leading up to the Senior Awards Ceremony, where the top 3 winners will be announced

➡️ Essay subject: What does success mean to you?

Top three winners
1st Place 🥇 $3,500
2nd Place 🥈 $2,500
3rd Place 🥉 $1,500

Please email questions to our board at [email protected]

Good luck, everyone! We can’t wait to hear your thoughts and celebrate our winners! GO PANTHERS! 💜🤟🏼👨‍🎓👩‍🎓💛