by Chloe Cha ‘28

The Maryland Business Honor Society (BHS) is a new chapter at Sherwood which strives to encourage young students who want to go into the business field, created by sophomore president Wyatt Tang and sophomore vice president Layla Woldu. The staff sponsor is Michele Bloom in K167.
BHS is structured as a statewide honor society. This is common with many legitimate honor societies that work at a state or regional level; they don’t require a national parent organization in order to be considered a valid society. “What defines an honor society isn’t national affiliation, but the standards it upholds.” explained Priya Patel, the President of MBHS.

Although applications have now already closed, BHS can be for anyone as long as they meet the following criteria: GPA no less than a 3.2, one recommendation from a non-elective teacher, and a submission of the form before the set due date. The club will potentially open applications again at the start of the second semester. Currently, there are 14 members.
“I chose to start a chapter of the Business Honor Society here at Sherwood because I think it’s important that we empower student entrepreneurs and help local businesses to raise money and give them all the support we can, especially as people who have a lot of connections,” said Tang.
“I chose to help support Wyatt because I thought that students needed to be exposed to more local businesses as well, not only uplifting student entrepreneurs but I feel like this honor society helps connect them to local businesses and more community owned businesses,” added Woldu.

The top priorities BHS would like to accomplish this year are to host many fundraisers in order to give back to local businesses by donating the raised money and find any local causes that they could help promote. Woldu also wishes to provide insight for students of what it is like running and owning a business so that if they want to go into that career themselves.

In addition to fundraisers, BHS also plans on hosting different events like having guest speakers, such as from student-owned businesses, and possibly visit local businesses to see how they operate in order to inspire students. The events they will host aren’t just exclusive to members only; these events are open opportunities for anyone to swing by and join.

Tang wants to go into the business field because he wants to start his own business and considers it “a very interesting endeavor to take on.” Although Woldu does not plan on getting into the business field, she believes that the skills that you learn from BHS can apply to all fields since it teaches one on the fundamentals of management, marketing, and finance and handling money.