National Technical Honor Society

I am truly humbled and honored to be selected amongst the top students in my graduating class and I am excited to be given the opportunity to represent Gateway High School in our chapter of National Honor Society. I firmly believe that I posses traits that fulfill the pillars of NHS: Scholarship, Service, Leadership, and Character. Scholarship in my eyes is the ability to excel at high level educational studies. As a student, I strive for excellence in every way I can. I have taken a variety of AP and Honors classes during my time in high school, and I am proud to say that I have found myself on High Honor Roll on each report card I have received. I have been able to maintain a 3.85 GPA through two and a half years of school. Aside from school,

I am honored and excited to be writing about how I can support the National Honor Society (NHS). I was first introduced to the NHS, around 10 years of age, by my Uncles awards he proudly displays in his “Man Cave” along with many other academic and leadership awards he had received from Jr. High all the way through College. Of course, he saw me looking over the many ribbons, medals, trophies, pictures and I could continue; however this is not about him and when he saw me looking at them he had no problem coming over and explaining what each award was and how he had received each one. Then we got to the NHS picture, medal & yellow cord. He explained how he was “tapped” into NHS as a Sophomore and he made sure I understood that was not the

National Technical Honor Society is a prestigious, nationally recognized organization whose members display tremendous attributes such as skill, honesty, service, leadership, and responsibility. Skill is having the ability to do something well, or with expertise. I display this attribute in all activities I participate in, such as golf, and DECA. I have been the golf team’s captain for the past two seasons. In DECA, I am the junior DECA class treasurer, as well as a State level competition, top ten qualifier. Another quality NTHS members hold is honesty, or being sincere, and not being deceitful, as well as having integrity. For my role as treasurer in DECA, I am always held to the expectation to be completely honest, handling all money that

My family and I have always been active in the community. Sometimes the involvement is weekly, such as singing in our church choir. Other times it is when the activities arise. For example, the past few years I have posting flags in Dent during summer and fall holidays, making the town festive. My family also helps an elderly neighbor by plowing his driveway and mowing his lawn. He no longer is forced to be a shut-in and can go the grocery store or the clinic when he needs. Even simply playing Bingo with the residents at the Nursing Home, makes a positive impact on someone's day. On a larger note, I help move books for the library's book sales. Also, in the summer, I will spend a few days a month quilting for Quilts of Valor. These quilts are given to veterans as a small thank you for all they have done for our country. In addition, I prepare youth in the community for the future by teaching classes that range from the bases of science to leadership skills.

With every keystroke, I created something new. Code transformed the website before my eyes. It seemed magical. Tinkering with code from a young age, I could soon design and control every aspect of a website. Writing code became a hobby of mine. I could always turn to internet resources when learning new concepts. Coding consumed most of my time, but the sense of accomplishment I gained made every second worth it.

Volunteering has further helped me to become the person I am today. It has allowed me to learn from people both older and younger than me widening my knowledge of the

Ever since I was a young age, my parents have taught me the importance of giving back to my community through community service, and helping others.

I have also been a part of different volunteer programs in the community. Growing up in a small rural community, my family was actively involved as volunteer firefighters. This involved supporting other farming families with paddock burn offs and more serious issues like attending out of control bushfires which I never had to experience.

I’ve grown up in a community oriented family that enjoys giving their time to help others. My earliest memories of volunteering are with my grandparents at the library and book sales at age six. I have helped every year for the past 5 years at Cranberry Fest in capacities.

I have participated in many acts of service throughout my community from planting flowers at the cemetery to helping out at the free lunch program. These volunteering opportunities have helped me to be more caring and compassionate. Through this I have also learned how important it is to help out your community and how to put smiles on faces. As a student, I have been experienced with customer service.

At first, volunteering was simply a way for me to fulfill a community service requirement for school. I was assigned basic tasks such as delivering the mail, or transporting residents to church, lunch, whatever was asked of me. The time I dedicated was so enjoyable that I continued to volunteer after my requirements were complete. Gradually, I was given more jobs and responsibility which allowed me to directly interact with a greater amount of residents. Eventually, I was cooking snacks, preparing and leading group discussions, and helping organize weekly church service. These services, as I thought, were more than

One way I help my community is by doing social services in my school. A social service is when a person or a student helps elders and teachers. The types of jobs I do are grading other peoples work, taking paperwork to other classrooms, and my number 1 favorite job is helping other students learn and teach them about things they don't

I volunteered at Sunrise View Retirement Home during my sophomore year in high school because I attended a private catholic school that made it a mandatory rule that every student complete a certain amount of community service; I strongly believe that was one of the best decisions of my life volunteering at this retirement home. My volunteer work involved doing various activities

In conclusion, changing the world for me, means eliminating stress, and secrets and giving people the ability to forgive. Stress can be deadly to the brain and affect your life dramatically. Secrets are awful and can cause stress which isn’t good either. Forgiveness is great, it is so helpful to remain friends with someone. All these things can help or hurt our world, but either way is can be hard and challenging, it’s our job to make it

It was until I became older and more mature I started to realize that my culture background was different than my parents. Being a third culture child, I had received and established a different culture than my parents. However, it was because of them giving me the opportunities to experience new cultures and places. My parents and their parents are all traditional, even though they have lived in America for quite a while. They choose to stick with their roots, instead of adapting to a new culture. In my culture I am suppose to have top tier education, successful marriage and stick to my culture’s traditions. On the other hand, I am more open minded than my parents. I am not afraid of trying and adapting to new cultures. My explanation to