Lindsey Bernardy : My Role Model In My Life

In addition to tutoring and mentoring the children in the community, Jacelyn also holds the position as Volunteer and Outreach Coordination, requiring her recruit, organize, and oversee student volunteers in the project. In addition, due to financial constraints in her family, Jacelyn also has an off-campus job that requires her to work many late nights and weekends. This ability to manage two jobs, a research assistant position, and consistent participation in community service while maintaining her exceptional GPA at an academically rigorous institution like UCLA demonstrates her admirable character, work ethic, and time management, valuable skills found in few students.

My drive to help others stems from my time volunteering with the service organization, Rotary, and their leadership program, Camp RYLA. When I attended this camp as a high schooler, I learned invaluable lessons of self-confidence and connecting with others, traits seldom found in a high school environment. My experience at this program inspired me to return as a counselor, where I have been helping foster the growth of today’s youth for the past four years.

She now wants to, “pay it forward.” Danielle is now the Assistant Director of Husky Sport and says that she wants to support students the way her parents supported her. She wants to have an impact on their lives and help them create and understand the value in “right relationships.” Danielle is motivated more than ever to create less disconnects in our society. She realizes the cultural deficit in our country and she wants to make it better by creating a “better understanding, better communication and better people.” She realizes there is an enormous amount of work to be done but never wants to stop being a support because her parents never did on her. She says for anyone getting ready to find a job, “find your passion and use it as a compass; be yourself, be authentic and find a place that values your opinions. It feels less like work when you love what you’re

Community service is immensely important to Caroline. She tries to do service while giving and getting the most out of it. A future goal regarding service is to be able to take over the Service Opportunity Depot at Mount in which she would help plan service trips for students in the school. A form of great service she does for her school is being an ambassador. With that role, Caroline serves as a role model and tour guide for families and students interested in attending Mount Saint

Throughout my life, I’ve always had an immense interest in helping others. Being involved in the National Charity League for 5 years has given me the opportunity to be involved with charities that I otherwise would’ve never known about. I’ve had the privilege to help with over b charities in and around my community throughout my years as an NCL member. By far my favorite would have to be Grace’s Feed Our Kids that I have volunteered at every summer since my start in NCL. Through this charity, we are able to provide lunches and fun games to underprivileged kids in Grapevine during the unbearably hot Texas summer days. Each day we serve different meals, either donated from local restaurants or homemade by my NCL class, and have a variety of things for the kids to do, like coloring, water guns,

From shoveling driveways or helping rake lawns for the senior citizens in my neighborhood I’m always there to lend a helping hand. However, some actions I take in my community are not done for other families but for my own. The responsibilities I have overtaken through the years in my household have definitely helped improve my maturity, and my character. I do these actions not to gain recognition, but instead to service my community and to aid those in need. Each day I aim to improve myself and to improve the community around me. Through doing that I exemplify these ideals, and will teach others of doing the same to keep our community

My mother always told, “Verline you have to run faster and jump higher to be the best.” My mother emigrated from Haiti and my father from Dominican Republic. I am a trilingual speaker. I am fluent in French, Spanish, and English. My father and mother came to the United States for a better life for my siblings and me. Being the youngest of eight children, where six didn’t attend college brought a lot of pressure in proving to my family that I am going to be successful. While my mother juggled two jobs and attended night classes it was my community that stepped in and help me evolve into the young woman I am today. I gave back to my community when I entered high school, and I began by volunteering at the YMCA I attended. My position switched from an attendee, to a volunteer, and now a camp counselor. I was so excited to take on a leadership role because I wanted to help students find what they are passionate about just as my mentor once did for me. I appreciate the opportunities that my community gave to me. I’ve gained principles, discipline, and tough love from my mentors in my community. Growing up in a large family l learned to share and the importance of relationships. I am beyond grateful to my family and community support for instilling in me the belief that I could do anything, and the sky is the

Allyson’s high school activities include varsity cheerleading on the football, basketball, and competition squad. Playing clarinet in the band for the past five years, she is very active in local honors bands including All County, Solo and Ensemble, OMEA District 3 band and All-Ohio State Fair band. Allyson participates in high school choir, and is a part of mixed ensemble. She is a two-year member of Arcadia track and field team. Furthermore, is a member of the National Honor Society, and now a lifetime member of the National Society of High School Scholars. Her community activities include volunteering at The Old Time

During my weekends when I was not playing in baseball I would be volunteering at Waldron Wings which was a Domestic Violence shelter housing women and children who left their broken home. I volunteer at this facility up into its closing at the beginning of my sophomore year. Often times amidst the week I would tutor kids at my own conviction at the Haughville Library just because I would see them struggling and it only made me yearn to liberate their ignorance. Which leads to another one of my ventures which is Toys for Tots which I participated in faithfully in eighth and ninth grade. A group of peers and I would go “Christmas Shopping” and supply kids who were not fortunate enough to receive gifts with toys and games they could only dream of having. I am a high-honor roll student which is evident from me receiving this letter. On top of that, I always dreamed of leaving a mark on my high school career one days and this is one of the many ways attain this goal and impact my

Throughout the past four years of high school, I have done my best to try and stay actively involved in the community. I have been presented with some amazing volunteer opportunities such as Huron Safety Town, STAR Leadership Camp, American Red Cross, and Huron High School Girl’s Basketball Biddy Program. I spent over 24 hours at Huron Safety Town where I was able to help young students, mainly those going into Kindergarten, learn how to stay safe while on the road. I was also able to spend over 24 hours at STAR Leadership Camp where I was a councilor to those going into the sixth grade. I made sure that each student understood the importance of being a leader in today's society and how important they are to Huron’s community. Through National Honor Society I have been able to maintain in constant contact, approximately 10 hours, with the American Red Cross by volunteering in monthly blood drives. I have also dedicated 16 hours of my time to those young girls interested in someday being a varsity basketball player through the Biddy Basketball Program.

Nevertheless, she also a great role model for the community, she participate in several outreach activities, which give her the opportunity to further connect with others, exemplifying her generosity and care as she model God- giving spirit.

Each of us will show we are leaders by being positive role models for these young people by showing them we genuinely care about them and their futures. We represent the service component by taking time to work in an organization that is in need of volunteers. We recognize that this is not a faith-based organization, but we chose to act on our individual faiths by doing God’s work and serving others. We will demonstrate the pillar of learning by working with children from different backgrounds than we grew up in. Also, we will encourage the children to learn through mentally stimulating activities in a fun

Introduction (Attention): One hundred percent: an all encompassing, nonexclusive percentage. It is also the very percentage of the people in this classroom who have done some type of volunteer work in their lives. Furthermore, it represents the percentage of individuals here today who found the volunteer work they did beneficial. Many of you additionally stated that volunteering made you mentally feel good about yourselves because you were able to reach out and help others. I personally have volunteered at numerous events and locations such as Snowflurry, an anti-drug and bullying program for fourth and fifth graders, and my local

I frequently chose to volunteer at the Lisbon Lepper Library, a public library where copious amounts of people choose to spend their free time, because I was able to aid in various departments and interact with diverse groups of patrons. My favorite place to contribute to in the library was the Children 's Department due to the enthusiasm and need apparent in those patrons. I had the honor of meeting hundreds of children through my volunteer work, all of which carried unique burdens but always wore a smile and were able to put one on me too. Two young girls in particular were inspiring to me. These girls each came from difficult circumstances; yet, when together appeared to never have experienced a worry. Although, I would be helping the department put on educational programs for the patrons there was not a time when those two girls did not find a way to teach me something too. Whether they came racing up to share interesting facts they found in the nonfiction section, a topic they enjoyed at school that day, or a trick they learned from their friends their appreciation of knowledge and their excitement to

Have you ever wondered how much of an impact you could have on someone else’s life just by doing something small for them? As you start to grow up you make sense of helping each other out with the little things in life. Some people don’t even realize they do it every day, opening the door for someone, showing someone directions, or even just waving at them. Each day you are doing good for others by not realizing it, and that is just what Brittany Ross continues to do. Brittany grew up in Peoria Illinois, and her family was known for the people that helped the community. From what she can remember her family would always have volunteering come first and always would help others out. She says “They are the best people I know” (Ross). As a child she noticed that her dad was the one to inspire her to volunteer and taught her “everything is a blessing and to use my good to help others” (Ross). Her family was known in the community by always giving time to help everyone with whatever they needed. They helped people who were in need of things around the house and even places that needed donations to keep in business. As of right now she says she will come back home during breaks to help out around the community and to try to be involved. She took on a new step in life by applying to the University of Iowa, she knew she wanted to volunteer whenever she could by joining organization’s here on campus, and she became a resident assistant.