The Student Body Officers and the Community Service Committee of the McKinney North High School Student Council created the MNHS Green Cord Community Service Award Program in 2004, patterned after the program used by McKinney High School’s Student Council. Its purpose is to create an incentive for the McKinney North High School student body to actively participate in volunteer community work and to provide a simple way for students to officially document their service hours (for college entrance applications and resumes, scholarship applications, etc.).

The effectiveness of Green Cord Program lies within the extensiveness of student involvement. Exploits such as this have little to do with the number of people involved and every-thing to do with the lives of those touched by the effort. Success is students learning that community service and involvement are of great value to our world and for numerous intrinsic reasons. This program allows students to impact the world NOW...one life at a time!