Key Club National Honor Society

Currently, I am a member of Red Cross Club, UNICEF Club, India Club, MED Club, MUN club, and Symphony. Last year, I have also participated in the Robotics club. These clubs help me learn more about myself and my interest, my goals, and my skills. It really open up my viewpoint. By participating in all these clubs may seem very tense and demanding. In contrast, I joined these clubs because they relieve my stress. They are great ways to communicate with other students and have a lot of fun exposed to real life experiences in the fields/subjects you are interested in. Being a member of these clubs also gives opportunity to meet and network with other people with similar interests.

It was not long that I began to receive personally wrote thank you letters from people and organizations we have served. One such organization was our local first Baptist church. This simple letter I found greatly changed how I saw Key Club. Before it seemed like a small group of friends that often went under appreciated despite our efforts. However now i understand that our plethora of projects really do greatly impact my community. Soon I began to love serving society, and began to search for even more projects to

The function of an organization such as National Honor Society is to train the youth of today on how to be the leaders of tomorrow. I believe that the best way for anyone to learn is by example, and to serve others. National Honor Society is an organization based on leadership. Whether a leader in a family, a business, a school, or even a public service position, the best way to lead, is to be an example to others. I believe that serving others is one of the most important and lacking parts of society and the world that we live in today.

Leadership Abilities can have many characteristics and meanings to a person. I took the time to look at characteristics and success of a leader to choose just one of the many leaders to discuss. Some of the characteristics that are involved in leadership is “Responsibility, Learners, share victory, Set an Example, aren’t afraid to make mistakes, push people upward, peacemakers, adapt their thinking, sense of humor, work hard, confident, promote unity, action-oriented, do the right thing, integrity, encourage, persevere, and courageous” (James River Church, 2017). One Leader that shows these characteristics is Mother Teresa.

More than half of American teenagers attending school participate in some type of extracurricular activities (Gardner, Roth and Brooks-Gunn, 2006). Extracurricular activities can include sports, journalism, drama or theater, art or music, youth groups, student council, and clubs. Today about one in four students participate in academics clubs (Miller & Zittleman, 2012). Since extracurricular activities are so popular among students, it is important to understand the pros and cons of engaging in extracurricular activities.

I have always enjoyed and had a passion for involvement. I believe that extra-curricular activities, volunteering or any type of involvement is an excellent learning opportunity. Throughout high school, I have been involved in sports team such as field hockey, rugby, badminton and swimming. In grades 10 and 12, I participated in junior and student council. These experiences taught me a lot about team work, time management and social skills. I was appointed captain for the girl’s field hockey team in my last year and this impacted my life. I learned a great deal about optimism as I absolutely loved cheering with my team regardless our losses. I also enjoyed participating in fundraising events such as Terry Fox runs, fast for hunger and many

Since I was born, I have grown up in a home where serving is a key virtue to live by. So as I budding freshman, I was excited to join the service clubs at my high school. However, when I saw the clubs my school offered, I was surprised to find out that there were not any service clubs for me to participate in. As a girl with a passion, I realized something needed to be done. So I gathered some friends and we decided to start a service club at our school. One of my friends suggested that we charter a Key Club, an international high school service club that she had at her past high school.

Throughout my high school and college career, I have had the opportunity to be involved in a multitude of extracurricular programs that has made my educational experience extraordinary. The programs I was involved with at Boise High School include choir, basketball, sports medicine, National Honor Society of Sports Medicine and National Honor Society. Outside of school, I was an active volunteer in my community with the Idaho Humane Society, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho, and the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. I have continued this active involvement throughout my college education by getting involved in multiple programs at Idaho State University.

In High School, I was involved in Key Club for 4 years. To be honest, when I first heard of Key Club I thought it was just an organization that collected “keys”. So I decided to go to the first meeting where I learned that Key Club members actually gave back to the community by being actively involved in community events and organizing service projects. During my junior year of high school, I served as the Secretary of the club. As Secretary, I compiled the number of hours that each of the 150+ members served each month at various events. Over the year, I realized that while our club was large, only a small group of members were active and attended the service events. In order to take more action, during my senior year, I became President and

Over the past four year, while attending Central Dauphin East High, I have gotten involved in many different activities and clubs. I first got involved in the sports at East High, such as field hockey, swimming, and lacrosse. Starting from my freshman year, I helped make East a better school, to compete against. In 2012, the field hockey team won just about half of the games they played, the swimming team was offly small but was competition for others and we sure gave it our all that year; especially because half of our team were beginners! Later in the spring of 2013, the lacrosse team made it to districts for the first time in years, maybe even a decade or two; Mr. Wagner was a fantastic coach, so the players cannot take all of the credit.

I felt like something was missing in my high school. I wanted to find a way to help others and get more involved in my community. I got a group of friends together and we started “Service Knights” in December 2015, the first service dedicated club in the school. Since then we’ve grown to about 40 members and have been involved in multiple service projects, such as charity fundraisers, community cleanups, and food drives. We’ve also become affiliated with Kiwanis and Key Leader, global volunteer organizations, where we are exposed to more service opportunities. The first and latest events, however, are ones that I hold dearest.

Realizing that my school work would most likely not be my downfall at any point in life. I decided that it would be the most constructive for me to focus my time and energy. Following my 7th grade year, I began to enroll myself in as many extracurricular's as I possibly could. I began to play football that fall as well as starting to volunteer at my church in the nursery, I took action. This pattern has continued even to this day, as I have only added to my list. Now I am a proud member of National Honor Society, Link Crew (freshmen orientation program), Best Buddies, lacrosse, and Relay for life.

As Vice President of Key Club, I encourage all members to participate in the numerous community activities, while joining the various services as well. I have attempted to incorporate students in my school to volunteer, and experience the satisfaction of giving back to the community. In order to continue to meet the set expectation, I would attend and research

When observing the students, the first day, I noticed how the vast majority of students were involved in some kind of club or sport. Hixson High School is a place where they thrive to make sure each student can become productive citizens in the world and providing diverse clubs or sports team keeps adolescents involved and focused on not only the extracurricular activity, but being an excellent student. This changed my beliefs about adolescents because I didn’t think that most would want to be a part of something that is involved after school that pushes them to be better. I figured most would go to school and go home or hang out with their friends. I know when I was in high school, it wasn’t considered “cool” to be in anything other than be a part of a sports team, so I was glad that things have changed in such a short period of time.

As a freshmen, I was never really involved in Key Club until after I attended my first Divisional Event. After going to my first DCM, I immediately knew that I wanted to get more involved into Key Club because I believe that its more than just a Club for service. It's a club that builds leadership, friendship, and commitment. This year, I had the opportunity to attend Seattle Rally, a district wide event that was an amazing experience that I was able to learn so many new things from the different workshops that I went to. At Seattle Rally, I was able to meet so many LtG around our district and really get to know what our district was like. I never knew how large our district was or how passionate everybody was about the Key Club cheer. Having