Walking through the many hallways of EHS, you come across a variety of different people. Whether it’s sexuality, race or gender, the roughly 2000 students roaming the school display a wide diversity of people.

Due to this array of people, EHS is starting its first annual Diversity Week to make sure all students feel welcome at their school. Each day there will be a video played in the morning and to wrap of the week there will be a trivia night over the culture of the different foreign languages offered.

French, German and Spanish Honor Society have joined forces to present students with another trivia night, this time focusing on the culture surrounding these language-speaking countries. Questions will be over categories like food, geography and history of these countries.

But you don’t have to be in the foreign language class to participate.  Everyone is welcome to join and the questions will be over an array of things, so no extensive knowledge of these countries is necessary.

“(The honor society officers) selected what they thought would be questions that were fair, even if you had never studied French, German or Spanish, you could still answer if you know about those (categories),” sponsor Mrs. Beck said.

Each honor society will be responsible for bringing foods that represent that culture.  Spanish Honor Society will be providing chips and salsa, French Honor Society will be making crepes and German Honor Society will be bringing Bavarian pretzels.

The trivia night will take place on April 13 and the proceeds will mainly go towards providing food and beverages for the evening as well as a cash prize for the winners.

Diversity Week hopes to continue into upcoming years, where, according to Mrs. Beck, future proceeds made will hopefully go to a charity promoting diversity.

“It’s really important to me that diversity is represented anywhere and the fact that we’re taking  this step at our high school is amazing,” French Honor Society member and French Club officer Abbie Huynh said. “Being as inclusive as we can is a great way to let our students know that we care about unique individuality and differences.”