National Honor Society: The Value Of Community Service

Service is simply an act of helpful activity and the transferable skills that are gained from service illustrate the importance of being involved. By volunteering in my community and taking part in organizations that are centered on service, I am able to strengthen my understanding of my surroundings, and I am taught more compassion for others. Being involved presents unlimited opportunities to give back to others, and with the skills instilled by service, I am able to make a difference in the lives around me. Experience gained with service creates characteristics in a person that can shape the direction of my life, and I will value that in the future.

Furthermore, I have also done quite a few acts of service to my town and school even though I realize that it is not necessary for me to do so, I believe that by serving others without a reward is the best way to become a better person and leader. As a matter a fact I am a member of Frisco’s Teens4Green and have volunteered to play “Rufus the Recycling Dog” at local elementary schools, which was a very enjoyable and rewarding experience. In addition, with my early release periods, rather than go home early most days, I choose to go assist some teachers if needed. By assisting them I can learn more about following in one’s footsteps to achieve a certain goal and how to aid another in a time of need. Since then, I knew that I had to serve my school in different ways rather than just teachers. I wanted to demonstrate to my class that I could be a worthy asset, and that I was there for them in wanting to make our senior year extravagant, yet

I serve at my church by helping the kids learn more about their religion and I occasionally help at the food bank. Also, every Wednesday I help babysit my baby cousin Olivia. But, the main reason I give service is to learn more about life and people. I also give service because it brings joy to my heart.

Serving others is a down deep way of learning more about yourself and helping others to see past themselves. Our Business and Professional Communication class participated in several service projects, which were interesting and exciting to be involved with helping others. As I am studying the major courses of Early Childhood/Special Education, our group project with the “Big Brothers Big Sister” program was very memorable to me. It was wonderful to have fun and participate in various activities with the kids. The environment was caring due to everyone helping each other accomplish different tasks. It was a great feeling to be able to share our time, talents, and hearts with the kids.

From day one my mom taught me that you will get more satisfaction giving to and helping others than you ever will by just doing things for yourself. I truly believe this. Volunteering to teach swimming lessons, organizing recycled items, and visiting the nursing home are all things I have been involved in and doing each of those I have learned more and more about how important service is. Just recently my classmates and I helped an elderly woman move all of her belongings out of her home and into the 4H building for an auction. The 4H building is on the fairgrounds where I have volunteered to clean up every spring for the last 3 years. Service is very important but also very rewarding. I look toward to doing more service projects in the

The pillars of National Honor Society, scholarship, leadership, service and character, are the foundation upon which each chapter and its’ members strive to better their community and school. Service is what creates the National Honor Society, the actions of one done in order to help others or the community without any monetary or material compensation. Scholarship, the commitment and desire to learn; leadership, the initiative to take action in order to create results for a group of individuals; and character, the distinction that sets an individual apart from others, are the defining criteria of members. These four pillars have been quite evident in my growth and desires for the future. Throughout my education, I have found that it has been

Service Learning is an educational strategy set in place to enlighten students with instruction and experience, in addition to improve learning , teach responsibility, and support the community. Service learning is vital to the development of the student, given that it intertwines academic and personal development together. It is aimed to enhance a student’s learning in all aspects of life.

The four pillars of National Honor Society are scholarship, service, leadership, and character. Service has shown me that giving my time back to others not only helps them, but helps me in my development too. I love giving back my time through volunteering at my church to being a part of my school's student council "Cadet Council." I consider myself a very good leader. I love leading in group projects, I have served several positions in my 4-H group, and I have recently led a Hat Drive during Christmas to raise money for families who couldn't afford presents. Character means someone who is respectful, responsible, trustworthy, fair, caring, and a good citizen. I always try to do all six of these things everyday. Being out for sports, band,

Service brings me great joy, and I continually seek ways that I can help those around me. The day after school gets out, my youth group and I are leaving for Mexico City to serve with an organization, Niños de Mexico, that provides a safe house for orphans and children from broken homes. I also recently committed to volunteering my time each Sunday with the kids at my church. My efforts to serve extend through my daily life as well, for example, when sister has had a rough day, I make her tea or brownies. I take care of my neighbor’s kids for free when they’re having a busy week. None of these tasks feel like work to me, I love to help people as much as possible. I look forward to the new service opportunities National Honor Society will provide.

My decision of joining the National Honor Society is based on my passion for volunteering and my desire to spread the positive qualities that the National Honor Society stands for: leadership, integrity, and scholarship. By joining this group, I wish to help my community by helping with NHS sponsored events and other local functions. Being in the National Honor Society impacts more than myself, it impacts the ones around me; I will use the skills that will be strengthened with this opportunity in my other current involvements to better the lives of people in my day to day life. It would be a true honor the become a member of this nationally accredited

To be a member of the National Honor Society is a great award and achievement and it means you have worked hard and achieved in school as well as volunteered and been involved in both the school and outside community. However, once you are a member it doesn't mean you can halt all your work and coast through the rest of your high school years. You must continue to work at good grades and more importantly you need to keep working on ways to benefit our school and outside community. You need to be generous with your time and ingenious with your ideas in order to create a lasting impact. If accepted into the national honors society, I plan on contributing to that lasting impact with my previous experiences with volunteering and leading others, as well as my dedication to the society and the moral code it upholds.

My goal is to build up the pharmaceutical industry with my passion for chemistry. I hope to achieve my goal by furthering my education and knowledge about chemistry in the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences program. While discovering my passions I learned the importance of community service. To me the word "service" means not only volunteer but to also learn and experience. Volunteering is the easiest part of service because anyone can get out and volunteer. That type of volunteering definitely helps in the world but when you learn something from volunteering it takes what you did a step further. When you learn from volunteering then you can educate others about what you have learned. Education is what helps others understand why and where volunteering is needed. The last thing on the list for service is experience. If someone doesn’t experience something life changing, whether big or small, then their service was really not complete. When I experience something while volunteering it makes me want to keep volunteering and that is really want the world

First, serving others is the process of finding yourself; it is a way to improve your outlook on life as well as you discover your talent. Serving others offers a chance to find some abilities that you did not know you contained. For example, I participate a community service in your local community’s nursing house. I work with my neighbors as a team to clean the nursing house

From a young age, those who have the privilege to do service, seem to be taught that we do service because we have the ability to help and work for the community. This has always been how it has been told and taught to me that we do service to help others and that you do not gain anything for ourselves. Service is often seen as a “selfless” act, yet if this is how it's viewed everyone involved is missing a huge part of the service. Service needs to start being taught and viewed as two-way street, not a one way. The change of how we view service has to start with the education and conversations that often surround services. Starting at a young age, children have to be taught to see service as an act we do with a partner verses for a partner. Yet until this class, I was largely raised on the idea that I was doing service for the community not with. So I have to revamp my narrative of service, through the readings, discussions, and other experiences I believe I have a few tools to deepen my mindset with.

Many people don’t understand how important serving is. I have found that at some schools, serving is important and is required to graduate. Service is the action of helping or doing work for someone. Serving can help others learn more about the world and help them position into a mature adult. Although service is required sometimes, people should serve by choice. Service hours are designed to help students grow in a relationship with God as well as discovering new ways to serve and help others.