KU Big Event Reflection

I was the vice president of promotion, and I performed a great deal of the promotion work and helped the other officers with their responsibilities. I organized an entrepreneur guest speaker to come in. I emailed the speaker and met with her outside of school to arrange the details of the event. Fortunately, the speaker visitation was a great success. Mrs. McGhee recognized my hard work and in addition to the role of vice president of promotion, she assigned me the position of vice president of community service. That same night, I went to work and contacted the local food bank to organize a volunteering opportunity for the DECA club. After volunteering there, my fellow officers and DECA members were so inspired with serving the less fortunate that some of them have come back to volunteer many times. Furthermore, DECA members signed up to work in the school’s retail store in the mornings, and I noticed very few people were fulfilling their duties as a worker in the retail store. This was really hurting us as a club because we weren’t making that much of an income due to the lack of adequate

I have taken an active role in many clubs and various activities during my high school career. I have donated most of my time, however, to the B+ club, as a leader sophomore and junior year and co-president senior year. B+ is an organization that raises funds for families battling pediatric cancer and for cancer research. The main event for our B+ club is the annual student-run volleyball tournament during the winter; it’s such a fun night filled with friendly rivalries on the court while thousands of dollars are raised for the organization. During my sophomore year, I helped implement a new “care package” program, which I have led and we have continued ever since. We fill the “care packages” with games, candy, blankets, and more, and given

So being a National Honor Society student, the last couple of years I’ve loved finishing ways I can help my community. I’ve always loved doing little things to help someone who needs it Community service to me, is more than just holding the door open for someone, picking up trash, or helping someone with their groceries. I want to help people grow and be a better person while serving my community. I’m glad I do more than volunteer, I try to impact the lives of people and I feel that is what I have

The gift that my group performed for the community of Juneau, Alaska is snow removal. The group consisted of my two most trustworthy peers Marcos Yadao and Mitchell Laudert. We all understood that living in a small tight knit town such as Juneau; the smallest of tasks can have the biggest impacts. That is when the light bulb in our intellectual brains and the idea of snow removal came to mind. It was an appropriate job for the winter season. With heavy snow flurries in the forecast, this would be an achievable accomplishment. With the service in mind our next step was to pick a location. We did not want to select the wealthy neighborhoods because the residents there would probably be financially able to pay for such services. The location that we settled on was not a poverty stricken area, but the homes consisted of elderly residence. To avoid complications with the occupants of the home and explain our reasoning for the free service we wanted to only do homes were the residence weren’t present. That did not hold up to a standard when we actually got around to carry out the service. The whole point of going out and helping people of Juneau with their snow blanketed driveways, walkways, and porches too was to gain self respect and also to prove to the world that good can come from anything and anywhere too.

Inside school, I am a member in the key club for two years. In the club, I took part in many activities, such as collecting bottles, joining race for the cure, helping wrap presents, signing in for free cooking. I also volunteered in the graduation ceremony, and guiding visitors into school as a member in the Student Ambassador. With the influence from my parents, I started helping in the old people's home at a young age. At that time, I was learning Guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument. In weekends, I usually bring my instrument to the old people's home, and play it for them. When I saw they were enjoyable and relaxed during my performance, I feel the sense of accomplishment. It is able to say that their similes are the power that convince me insist in doing charity. I hope I can be accepted by the National Honor Society. If I have a chance, I will do all I can do to let our school become stronger and encourage everybody to be the person they admired. I think I am a good listener, and having the ability to benefit the

For reasons most likely to be blamed on as laziness and procrastination, I have never acted upon the desire to help others through volunteer work in my high school career. I also am in need of teamwork skills in order to successfully succeed in life. Due to the fact that I believe in what I deem to be good morals, participate passionately in theater, and maintain school as a priority of my life, along with the desires I have to grow as a person, I believe I could contribute even the smallest fraction of a percentage to OIAIS’s National Honors

At the University of Iowa I am currently involved with greek life, specifically the sorority Pi Beta Phi. Being in the chapter involves many different aspects. The chapter's philanthropy is called, "Read, Lead, Achieve." Pi Beta Phi is dedicated to help raise money to donate to literacy causes. Pi Beta Phi has also donated 1 million books to children in need of materials. I chose to join this sorority for their philanthropy, because I value literacy as a future teacher. I also hold a position in my chapter, a Policy and Standards Board member. This means myself and a team hold the women in our chapter accountable for any misbehavior, and work with them to find ways to change it.

Within school, I have ran Track and Field every year since the sixth grade. I have a very strong passion for Track and this drives me to work harder, as well as motivate others to do their best. I am also a member of Lakeland High School’s National Honor Society (NHS). Through NHS, I have been able to have many opportunities to reach out and help my community, which includes helping with our school’s recycling, which has proudly earned me the nickname of the “recycling queen,” tutoring many students within the school, donating blood, raising money for different organizations, donating my time to help at the Suzanne Haskew Arts Center, and volunteering for pet adoptions, Parkinson’s walk-a-thons, Holiday Hope for Kids, and many other small activities held at middle and elementary schools, like dances. Aside from the large activities that I put my time into, I also work every day to put smiles on the faces of people, whether it be by simply saying, “Hello,” or by holding a door open. In my mind, I view every positive action as an action that should be taken, even if it does add a bit of time or work to my

Over the course of my academic career, I have volunteered with Key Club at my school and other various places, such as the Poe Center for Health Education and WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Involvement with each organization has had a tremendous impact on my character. Often, while at the Poe Center, I had hours alone to create educational tools, file papers, and enter data into spreadsheets which taught me responsibility and integrity. I always strived for the best when I completed tasks at the Poe Center and at WakeMed. Each organization has been impacted through my volunteer services. With Key Club, we had monthly trips to the senior home. Each time I visited the senior home, the elder’s faces would light up because many of them did not have

I volunteer and participate in activities to better the community and my surroundings. Over the last three years, I have spent many hours working on our class activities including homecoming festivities. I worked nearly every concession stand that my class sponsored last year and a few concession stands that the clubs I’m a part of sponsored. For the last four years, I’ve been a member of the Eisleben Lutheran Church. In these four years, I’ve read scriptures to the congregation, participated in teaching during Vacation Bible School, and volunteered at dinners to raise money. I also helped the Speech and Debate club host a meet for other schools. For National Honor Society, I will volunteer for activities for my school and community without compensation.

For the past number of years, I have taken part in volunteer activities on my own, and as a member of the National Honor Society. Multiple times through the past four years, I participated in children’s holiday parties at my church. My main tasks were assembling displays and games, and assisting children who wanted to play one. I have also fundraised for many charities concerning life-threatening illnesses such as cystic fibrosis, cancer, and diabetes. During my freshman year, I completed nearly 25 hours of community service at Julia Boyer Reinstein Library. Besides restocking library materials and cleaning up around the building, I also assisted many people who were looking for certain items or had general questions. People from all different demographics and age groups visited the library and had an abundant amount of needs that I helped fill. Later this

A few weeks ago, I took part in Community Connections, one of the pre-fall programs that Sacred Heart offers to all incoming freshmen by application. During this five-day week, we did twenty hours of community service around Bridgeport, where we helped out in food pantries, daycares, habitat for humanity, gardens, disability rehab and gave school supplies to children who can’t afford it. One moment stuck out to me the most and still makes me tear up, is when a little girl I got to talk to from a soup kitchen asked me why she wasn’t born white and

I chose to volunteer at a Christnet Rotating Shelter Program that was at the time located at a local church. This program does not have a permanent location, rather, various accommodating churches host the program. Additionally, this program offers not only daytime programs, but also nightly shelter. However, for this assignment, I opted for an observation of the program’s participants at nighttime. Moving on, I showed up more than an hour early before the sign-in sheets would be distributed to individuals seeking shelter for the night so that I could assist the other volunteers with adjusting the layout of the room and assembling the tables and beds in order to accommodate the needs of the guests. Afterwards, people began to line up outside the church’s door about 6:15 p.m. even though

From sophomore to senior year, I volunteered at the Glide Memorial Church, an organization that helps to serve food to the low- income and homeless. I decided to volunteer at Glide because I want to give back to the community that I am part of by mitigating the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. On the first day of volunteering, I was sent to pass trays of food to people. I like volunteering there because I enjoy seeing the smiles on the people’s faces when I pass the trays to them. As I continue to volunteer, I was placed in many positions and challenged myself with different and new responsibilities. I did clear up, help people to clear up their mess and clear up the trash. I help fill in food in the trays and pass the other volunteers.

Last week, I volunteered at the St. Francis Inn soup kitchen in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA. There, I served hundreds of less-fortunate people dinner and talked to many of them. The vast majority of people were very appreciative of the work that I was doing, but of course there was a select few that were rude and didn’t fully appreciate the kitchen. I gave those people the benefit of the doubt that they were truly going through rough times. After dinner, the crew and about ten of the ruder people attended evening mass in the chapel upstairs. What happened next astounded