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
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
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.
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
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
This past month we put on a global awareness project. My society advisor and I discovered this foundation, The Pulsera Project. The organization sought to help individuals working in textiles gain freedom from their poor conditions and give them respectable jobs making bracelets, referred to as pulseras, that are sold all over the world. So, we joined immediately in the cause selling bracelets at our school, telling our peers about the Nicaraguan workers lives, and helping to provide financial relief. Our society decided to not use this as a fundraiser, but instead send all our profits back to the Pulsera Project. Not only do I help others through clubs, my high school sports teams I play for also run sports camps over the summer to help smaller child learn the game and improve their skills. The players, like me, help mold and sculpt the younger generations of
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.
I remember training the training was extensive and tough. It was honestly one of the hardest things that I've ever trained for in my life. And in my mind I really saw swimming in my mind and heart as a true sport in this state. And as the years went on I realized that swimming started to become a more popular sport in this state. I also realized that swimming followed a lot of the same regulations that other sports in the state did that were already sanctioned. Such as, having equal opportunity participation for both boys and girls. So, I knew personally what I had to do you make sure the friends that I made on the team got what they deserved. And when I heard that they were going to make the vote to sanction swimming this year, I knew that I had to pursue it so that the future generations of swimmers could really enjoy swimming as a real sport as much as I had tried when I was
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
I am eager to become more connected within the service community and continually increase my leadership involvement in the years to come. Living off campus in a local, nonprofit cooperative living house has allowed me to become more connected with those in the community who are also passionate about
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
Working has helped me get a headstart in life and has taught me what the world will be like. Another example of service in my life is when I was in Girl Scouts. I have been in Girl Scouts for as long as I can remember, and the only reason I was not in it this year is because we could not pay the fees in time. Girl Scouts taught me the importance of friendship and contribution to get something done. All of the service I have done in Girl Scouts, and my job, has taught and helped me grow into the person I am
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
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.
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.