Kiwanis Club Encourages Students to Improve in School

Bring Up Grades, or BUG, is a program designed to provide recognition to students who raise their grades from one grading period to the next. The purpose of the BUG program is to encourage students by recognizing their efforts to improve their grades. Recognition includes being placed on the schools’ BUG honor roll and a presentation of a certificate and an award gift. Alamogordo Kiwanis Club member Ned Kline presented students with their BUG certificates at each of the elementary schools in March.

The Alamogordo Kiwanis Club helps support the BUG programs at Holloman, North, Oregon, Heights, High Rolls, La Luz, Desert Star, Imago Dei Academy, Legacy Christian Academy and Father James B. Hay elementary schools. The teacher establishes a baseline grade for each student during the first grading period.  Students are honored each grading period thereafter. This encourages students to put real effort into improving their grades. It doesn’t matter where they are starting from, Kiwanis wants to encourage them to do their best throughout their academic career.