Every semester, the Honors Program hosts a Showcase for students in H-tag classes to present their work. Similarly, every year we put on the Honors Exhibition where students present their capstone projects, which represent a minimum of a year’s effort.

To present the posters, we have been using Plexiglass COVID screens, that were originally built and intended to allow professors to better teach their classes while everyone was required to wear masks.

Our dear Dr. Bert Emerson saved these contraptions from the dump by putting them to use as poster display boards. However, they were made quickly, inexpensively, and for an obsolete purpose, five years ago.

All that to say, these reappropriated shields are getting old. These old boards are a hassle to move, store, and stick things to, leading to much anxiety from presenters and faculty in the Honors Program.

Which is why for this One Pine Day, we kindly ask for your donations to purchase new display boards. But don’t just listen to me, see what some other people have to say:

Shelbe Nelson, Business ’26: “These new board will provide more accessibility to our posters and an organizational and dynamic way to represent our hard work.

Staci Schnieder, Program Coordinator: “I love seeing our students’ work sparkle, and the old boards really inhibited that.”

Bar Rozenheimer, Philosophy & Theology ’27: “New poster presentation boards will help us foster a greater intellectual community”

Laney Thomas, Business ’27: “The new poster boards will make us look so much more professional and our presentations will feel less thrown together.”

Our newest social media manager, Ella Johnson, has also made this exciting new video to really demonstrate our woes when it comes to these old boards and why we need new ones, you can view it on our Instagram at @gwhonors or on youtube, here.