Personal Narrative: My Experience At L. E. A. D.

Although I have only been in National Honors Society since last spring, I believe I have nevertheless demonstrated the kind of commitment to the community that NHS members exemplify. Throughout high school, I have been involved in many school-related and independent charitable activities. I have participated for the past three years in the annual Feed My Starving Children food packing event at the high school, one year staying late to seal the 300,000th meal so we could reach our goal. I have volunteered for Osceola Public Library on numerous occasions, and I have also volunteered for the Books for Africa and Operation Christmas charities.

Over the past year, I have served my school and community in many different ways. Whether it be through volunteering or participating in organizations that work to make changes in the lives of others. I try to stay involved in my environment. Currently, I am a student at Rockford Lutheran High School. With the multitude of clubs, my school offers, I am able to interact with other club members to promote student participation. Every year we participate in drives and fundraisers. In Key Club, each year we put together solider boxes. We collect a variety of small items and send hand packaged boxes to our fighting soldiers, as a gift for christmas. Other drives that I partake in are the canned food drives for the local food pantries, and the clothing drives to give winter clothing to those less fortunate. This helps to provide this vulnerable population with warmth during the cold winter months.

Throughout my past four years in high school, I have had the opportunity to maintain leadership positions in various organizations, including Spanish Honor Society and Drama Club. These groups have allowed me to be involved my school and community. I have organized various events including a stuffed animal drive in which we brought almost 1,000 donations of stuffed animals to the Pembroke Pines Police Department

If I was a member of NHS, I would help come up with new ideas to help our school and community. For one thing, I think that we should do more with the senior citizens around the area. We could help them shovel, and rake their lawn. We could also have the music groups do special concerts for senior living homes. Another idea is that we could do more to help our own city. Many people in the berkley school district could use help. We could have clothing drives, and food drives to help them out. We already do some things to help our community, but we can do even more. I would also love to help out by tutoring students in the school. Many students at Berkley could use help in certain subjects, but the problem is that they don’t know how to find help, or it is too expensive. I can tutor students in different subjects to help them do better. Berkley High School is a great school, but we can do even more to make it a better school and community. Leading, and helping are important to me. I would make a great addition to National Honors

I volunteered at the Little Lights Urban Ministries. I had the pleasure of working with adults and kids but, majority were adults in a low income community. Little lights was founded in 1995 by Steven Park. Little Lights is located in Potomac Gardens public housing apartments in Washington DC. It all started off with Steven tutoring one child in an uptown neighborhood. Then he met his wife Mary and things started expanded. They started allowing 15 kids come over after school to do homework and bible study. Sometimes they would order pizza or buy chicken to feed the kids if they stayed over late. A couple of years later they was blessed with the main building and somebody donated a van for transportation. Steven then start his nonprofit and

My high school years have been filled with many great memories; it is safe to say that I had an enjoyable high school experience. Some of my most unforgettable moments of my high school career have been in Beta Club. In 9th grade, I joined the Beta Club at my school. I joined because I knew that this club was an organization for those who love to serve others, and I know that decision will have a lasting impact on my life as well as on others’ lives. I was elected President of the Beta Club at my school in 11th grade. I led my club of about 40 members throughout the year as we took part in various service activities such as: trash pickup for Adopt a Highway, sponsoring a child for the holidays, and visiting local elementary schools to read

The service learning group I was in included Claudia Hodges, Laurie Wahlstrom, Lucas Johnson, and me. We chose to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Club to fulfill volunteer work requirement. I assisted with the implementation and managing of online collaboration and communication within the group.

National Honors Society, or NHS, is one of the groups in my school that contributes in different ways in the school community and outside the school. NHS organizes college fairs, blood drives, book drives, volunteering activities, and community services in and outside of school. NHS gave me the opportunity to be a better leader and enhance my skills as a leader when I was assigned as the president of organization. Being the president of NHS is a huge responsibility and there is a lot of pressure. I have to communicate with our moderators every week. I have to look and search for volunteering opportunities that our group could do. But all these things are just small things that I don't really mind doing because it's a great opportunity for me to explore and be able to learn how to be a leader.

My first Sunday at the church I was able to help lead mission Sunday. The church regularly set aside a Sunday each month were the youth would do a service project in the community. The Sunday I participated we worked at a community garden. My job during this time was not only cleaning and picking weeds but encouraging the youth. I learned a lot about keeping a team of youth organized and motivated. I had never witnessed a program similar to mission Sunday from any other

Link Crew: I was involved my Junior year as a group leader. My partner and I were able to lead 14 upcoming freshmen with their Freshman orientation. I was able to gain qualities of a leader and it helped me gain confidence to speak in front of a crowd.

No matter what church we went to, I was always heavily involved. Newspring was a breath of fresh air, because there were so many people, I could just do what i was gifted in. One day, I showed up to clean after a baptism sunday. They had already finished as I was just arriving. I asked if i could help with anything else and they gave me some care cards to enter in. I became an intern. Then I got an opportunity to come on staff and assist several men, and now

I found out about the Maxis-Gillet Service Scholars and I instantly wanted to be involved. I sent in my application, went for interviews, and now I am a Maxis-Gillet myself! Service has always been a big part of my life and being a Maxis-Gillet furthers my passion. It allows me to serve a new group of people and experience new opportunities. All of the clubs I joined offer service opportunities. I think it’s amazing that every club and athletic team participates in something. I am very involved with activities on campus and I love when I hear that other people are having a good time.

As my high school is very small with less than 800 students, there are very few clubs to join, but I did my best in finding ways to get involved. Over the past two years, I have been a member of We Group, a student-led club that raises funds and supplies for local and global communities. In We Group, I was solely responsible for creating documents, like permission forms and master lists, and arranging the collection of pledges and permission forms. This year, we raised over 600 books for Books for Me!, an organization which distributes books to elementary school children in the Vancouver area. During the duration of the whole event, I was in charge of keeping in contact with the organization, so they could pick up the books. Moreover, in the October of 2014, I also became a member of the Delta Youth Advisory Council (DYAC), which is a group of Delta high school students that meets up monthly to discuss topics and issues pertaining to Delta schools. Through DYAC, I voice my opinion and ideas during these forums to

As a member of this group we are given a plethora of opportunities to serve the underprivileged. One of my experiences with community commitment included going to an elementary school and assisting faculty members with overgrown foliage and installing shelves in a supply room. In addition to the opportunities provided in HES I found service through the Christian organization, Cru at OSU. During my time with Cru I got the chance to travel to Indianapolis for IndyCC. During the conference, I participated in a day of outreach where a we would donate food boxes provided by local churches to underprivileged people in the city. One couple was gracious enough to invite my group into their home and share their life stories with us. It was an eye opening experience, revealing a secondary form of service, being in the present. Service doesn’t have to be tangible, it can be conversational as

I participate in Student Leadership Team at C-Tec. I volunteered at multiple community events such as our annual open house and our schools’ evening of exploration. One of our most important duties is to host student run tours and other events to peak new students’ interest in attending C-Tec. Without our service younger students would never get to experience the unique qualities of C-Tec. I currently have obtained 25 volunteer