My passion for service and leadership has grown through my involvement in FCCLA, Honor Society, and Spirit Club. I would love to expand my leadership skills by working with my fellow peers as a student body officer and grow my love for community service as the service representative. With 4 State Championship titles in swimming, I have learned that dedication and hard work and self-motivation will always help me reach my goals. Swimming has made a major impact in my life and I love every hard-working hour. My 5th State Title was not in swimming but in water polo my sophomore year when Cedar beat Park City. That experience was unique because of the closeness of the team and the experience of each of us working together toward a common goal. …show more content…
I believe being involved in service around town and in high school has taught me life-long skills that will continue to carry me …show more content…
Last year I participated in Dressember. A nationwide project to help raise awareness for human trafficking. Each day of December, participants wear a dress to help spread the word that human trafficking is a prevalent issue in today's society. I would like to host a fundraiser to help raise awareness and donate money to ending modern day slavery. Since we live in such a small town, it's hard to make an impact on the rest of the nation but by doing this project we can help make a difference, starting with our small high school. Another idea I have is to host a competition against sports in each season to raise money to donate to a cause of the teams choosing. By doing this, more people will get involved and each of the teams get to show support for a good cause. There’s so much room for myself and others to grow through being a part of such an amazing student body. Starting with making incoming freshman and students that may not have very many friends feel welcome and appreciated and going all the way to trying to make our world a better
In addition, I have many ideas on how to make the Beta Club grow and become more successful. One of which, is a school-wide rummage sale, with items donated by families. This would be good to help fund the Stop Hunger Now event that everyone enjoyed last year. The rummage
I am going for the position of either commissioner of community service, sports, or clubs. I have been in ASB for a year and it has been a memorable and great experience in which I have learned so much and continue to do so. During that time, I was and still am commissioner of community service and it still continues to be my main selection. I am qualified because I am committed and have worked very hard to make sure I continue doing my job properly meanwhile still doing my job as an ASB member in anything that we may be working on at the moment. I always update my Community Service bulletin board in the Higher Ed. Center as often as I can and when the dates pass. There is always community service opportunities that I have looked for myself
The first fundraiser that I would like to have is a Summer Kickoff event. This would be at the beginning of the term after school has ended and would be either a pool party, bonfire or camp themed that would kickoff this term and the summer! The next fundraiser would be in the middle of the term and could be a Car Wash or a Chocolate Drive. These would be promoted to members in ONR, our family members, friends and more! The last fundraiser of the term would be something new and innovative. I would like to open the planning of these fundraisers to general members. This way the general members would have a first hand experience in the planning and implementation of a fundraiser. It would have to be exclusive yet fair, so with the help of N’siah, I would create an application and through the application process, we would choose a few members to help. I would oversee the entire process and help the members if they need it but the majority of the planning would be in their hands so they can experience the planning of a fundraiser. Another idea for fundraisers that I had would be a Restaurant Fundraiser where I partner with a restaurant and the funds would go to Beresheit.
An experience that has made a profound impact on my life was when I directed and completed a community service project to fulfill a requirement for the Eagle Scout Award in the Boy Scouts of America. In order to competently act as coordinator for this service project, I had to develop both my interpersonal communication and leadership capabilities to a proficient level. Besides improving my professional skills, this project gave me the opportunity gain hands on experience working with groups of people who had varying skill levels. So, not only did these skills allow me to complete the project successfully, they have also proven incredibly useful throughout my academic career.
Fundraising is a crucial element to being successful in any group, and usually fundraisers are more profitable when they have a unique element. Last year, my color guard team in high school wanted new uniforms. Our old uniforms were falling apart, but instead of just asking the school for the money to purchase the new uniforms, we as a team decided to fundraise for them. As the captain of the team, I decided that we should do a pie in the face contest. At a basketball game, we put out a table with jars on it. Each jar belonged to a member of the color guard team, and if their individual jar reached twenty five dollars, that member would get a pie in the face at the next basketball game. This was a unique, quirky way to raise money and get the
Coming into my freshman year, I made it a goal to be involved in a variety of clubs that sparked my interest to see how I could contribute to the organization and how the organization could benefit me. I narrowed down my interests to three main organization: Student Success Leadership Council (SSLC), Sisterhood of Unity and Love (SOUL), and Black Engineers Society (BES). Currently, I am serving as the Vice President of SOUL and the Finance Chair of BES for the 2016-2017 school year. The have both required substantial time commitment but I have grown as a leader from them. Balancing positions like these will make me a better candidate as an RA because I can reflect those skills in this job as
I enjoy community service; I am ready to rush to anybody who needs help. I know that I can help serve the community and make it better. As a leader, I have led classes at a karate school that I used to attend, as well as Fellowship of Christian Athletes lessons. I work well with people and I can set a good role model for others.
I am currently involved in Student Support Services, Freddy T. Davy Honors College, and Political Science club. Each one of these organization has nurtured and help me grow into the intelligent young woman I am today. My involvement in these organizations make me an ideal candidate because I can establish a beneficial relationship between one of these organizations and Hampton University Student Government Association. For example, there may be a scenario where we need to fund raise for an event or project we can link both organizations to raise more awareness and funds. Many people do not know that the three organizations that I am currently a part of do not choose you. You have to choose them. I have chosen to accept a challenge to
Over the last few years, I have had many leadership and community service opportunities. Nobody likes to hear the sound of a siren, but I want to be the one that arrives with that sound to help others. Since joining Northwest Pocket Fire Department last year, I have learned to juggle school along with training meetings and 4-hour night classes at the community college. My training includes working with people in the community and learning life-saving skills. I have also gone on multiple summer mission trips with my youth group. We served elderly and disabled individuals by cleaning and repairing their houses. Additionally, through Venture Crew 900, I have been able to provide community services such as setting up the
I am willing to contribute more in MPSA by being a coordinator. Next, by being a leader of Be the Match team of MPSO and being a president of an undergraduate student organization for four years, I am looking forward to more leadership opportunities to continue to
Growing up in a small town in the Midwest I learned several life lessons and how families and communities should be, then I joined the Navy and found out how inadequate that small town was in several areas. Primarily health care
A responsibility of student council at my high school is to raise money to underwrite the cost of prom. Even though prom is not until the end of senior year, the fundraising goal makes for an undertaking that cannot be put off. Therefore, most classes begin fundraising their freshman year, and unique and executable ideas are crucial for success.
Some ideas regarding fundraisers is that we have two fundraisers per semester, one at the end of August and another at the end of October. Each sport can engage in friendly competition to see who can raise the most for the athletic program. For example, the fall semester will be football, volleyball, and cheerleaders. In the spring it will be Boys and girls basketball, boys/girls
Since the age of seven, I started to help my parents with basic chores around the house. For example, I helped my mom clean around the house, take out the trash, dish wash, and fold the laundry. During this period, my parents paid me in form of allowance and started a college-trust fund to pay for college fees later in life. In addition, I applied for a job during high school to work for Vons. This was my first job and the start of the basic building block toward my career development. Furthermore, I began to get more involved in high school and volunteered for my school charity outreach programs. For instance, the Los Angeles Food Bank came every Friday and passed out food to underprivileged families who lived in project homes. Also, I volunteered in an organization called," Saved the Earth" which cleaned the streets, beaches and spread awareness about preserving the national environment. In addition, I volunteered at St. Jude research hospital and read books to cancer children and assisted the nurses with giving out pamphlets to the families of the patient. Lastly, I had a valuable opportunity to observe the nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists and participate in hands on experiences. Therefore, all of these experiences led me to develop the necessary skills to pursue my future job. For example, my parents taught me valuable lessons of responsibility from doing chores to be responsible for completing assignments, which is important skill to have in life.
Over the course of my scholastic career many life lessons have been implemented into my life through the curriculum I was taught by my teachers. A surprising amount of things really, one of the things I was always adamant would never really happen in a place so dreaded to me. Particularly in my middle school and high school years, I had to learn how to get along with others, overcome my lazy tendencies, and deal with large amounts of work that I found often overwhelming.