Upward Bound Program

At the beginning of my freshman year I was accepted into the WSU Upward Bound Program. One of the first things I did with this program was to attend a six week summer program. During the summer program I participated in a marine biology expedition into a swamp. At first I was wondering why a swamp was so interesting and why did we care about this mucky water. As I watched my peers go into the water and collect samples I just thought that they were collecting water and plants. Once we stepped into the classroom and studied the sample I was shocked to find floating organisms and creatures in there. I remember that under a plant that was collected from the water we found a critter that I was able to touch and look at. This sparked my interest

Mrs. Sharonda Steele has been the Director of the Bluegrass Community & Technical College Upward Bound Program for five years. Upward Bound is a college preparatory program that prepares potential first generation and low income students for institutions of post-secondary education. Students are provided with tutoring, academic survival workshops and a six week summer bridge program. As the director of the program her primary responsibilities include the daily running and future growth of the program and its student. Her main goal is to increase the rates at which students in the program enroll in and complete their post-secondary education. She is constantly finding new ways to improve the program in order to better serve her students. Mrs.

As a kid I was always fond of donating clothes, or helping out at my local food bank, because reaching out made me feel good and put a smile upon the ones I was giving a helping hand to and myself. Growing up, my parents have instilled within me to always give aid to those who are in hardship, because if we are fortunate enough to have everything we have ever needed, then why can’t others have the same. My drive for assisting others expanded when I joined the Interact club. I have been in Interact Club for two years, and now I am treasurer of this group which gives back to the community and other communities as well. In the Interact Club, we have donated countless of items, ranging from food to clothes to books and much more. Through the Interact

It is difficult to ignore the fact that we live in a dynamic interconnected society that has many moving parts that each operate dependently with each other. If our world was a vehicle, the many individuals, cadres and groups that coexist with each other, would have some sort of role in this machine. Despite the different pieces differing in the function or they play in society, they are still considered to make up a part of a whole. Therefore, as a society and as an individual community service helps to maintain the whole that we are part of.

In the summer between my 9th and 10th grade year at Andrew Jackson, my first year in the Upward Bound program at JU, I landed my first leadership position. The first two weeks of the program is boot camp to prepare for classes in the next four weeks. In boot camp, we received a folder for the math class, I would organize my work and notes within these folders in category and from date. Ms.Jay, the mathematics instructor, was astonished by my organization and asked if I could assist her in coordinating the coronation that year. Coronation is an oratorical pageant held every summer by the Upward Bound program at JU. JU Upward Bound students are encouraged to participate every year. Every year, there's a new theme, that years theme was Turn Up.

I feel like a good candidate for the program because I am very motivated to learn new test taking skills and to get a better knowledge of PSAT test. I am currently in a program called Upward Bound, it helps me to prepare for college and improve my test taking environment. I want to focus on the elements that will require for the PSAT test. I want to continue to work on what I excel at and what challenges me.

With my large service background, I hadn't done any community service since this past summer with the STEP Program. Coincidently, earlier this semester I unintentionally enrolled into a community based service class. I then would have to select a nonprofit organization to do fifteen hours of service and later create a service project. Reviewing the organizations I had to choose between, I was not overly enthused as none of the organizations called out to me and I would have to do a lot of work with them. My choices narrowed because of my schedule, availability, locations, and other various conditions. Having to determine which service cause was the lesser of the two evils based off of my personal interests. I found myself choosing to work with

Community service ultimately provides preparation for work, and allows for one to make connections and networks from within. One can gain knowledge and experience in a variety of fields, and would help them discover what they truly wish to do in college, as many people do not know what to do halfway through their college careers. My own volunteer work specifically, has directed me to a path of interest I had never before considered. Having participated in various volunteer and community service events, I discovered working within the performing arts is of great interest to me, and I would have never considered this field if it were not for community service. It is clear that community service needs volunteers, equally as much as volunteers need the benefits of community service. The millions of organizations frantically recruiting volunteers for events everyday would be grateful for any amount of service given, even so with only an hour’s

When I was just a 11 year old boy, I remember the dread that flowed through my body when my CCD teacher told us we needed to complete 15 hours of community service in order to pass the class and move towards confirmation. I went the whole entire year pushing it off, until finally, it was the final week before the hours were due. In that week, I crammed 15 hours of community service into a few days. Believe it or not, the 11 year old me did not learn from my mistakes, and the next 3 years I did the exact same thing. Finally, I was a freshman in highschool, and I decided it was finally time to step it up and be responsible. Now that I was 14, I had to complete 25 hours, but this year was going to be different. I decided that I was going to do

An act of community service that I was truly passionate about would be the mission I took to the country of Nicaragua. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to tag alongside three other veterinarians one of which is my dad, on the five day trip to the town El Limón Dos to aid and operate on animals in need. This trip taught me how much I really do have a love for animals and the helping of impoverished people . In the beginning I did not know what to expect because this was the most poverty struck country I have ever visited. With the motives of building a better college application and the moral significance in mind I developed a deep passion for what I was doing. As beautiful as the country and people were, I could clearly tell that

Service is a strange word for me. I went to Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana for my undergraduate degree. There, I was required to do a certain amount of community service hours before I could graduate. The school tried to tailor this requirement to the general population at Butler by offering a variety of classes that would suffice the hours needed. These classes ranged from planting flowers, to walking shelter dogs, to free tutoring at different schools. While some people really utilized this opportunity as a chance to give back and grow their community, others rolled their eyes looking for the easiest way to fulfill the requirement. I was friends with a mix of students from both of these populations. My energized friends were thrilled to make a difference in the world and give back to the community where they felt at home. My not-so motivated friends complained that community service is something that a court punishes you with to make up for your wrong doing in society. When it came down to my time to register for my community service class, I recall being confused to see the requirement had already been fulfilled. As it turns out, I had already taken three courses through the communication sciences and disorders department that qualified as being “service oriented”. Perplexed, I contacted my academic advisor, where I learned indeed I had satisfied the requirement times three. I had been a part of speech and hearing related practicums for three

Community service is a very special and important activity when it comes to wanting to not only better your community but also connect with the community in a way that is not possible in your everyday life. For this semester I experimented with a different types of community service, it ranges all the way from giving blood to helping out my local no kill animal shelter. Doing all of these things really opened up my eyes, it made me realize how much our community needs our help, and if we do not put forth the effort nothing is going to change or get better. I am not saying what I did over this semester changed anything, but I now know all the benefits of community service and hope that one day in the near future I can contribute in a way that is beneficial to others of my community.

Some Community service examples include: tutoring children after school, collecting school supplies to donate, planting a school garden, visiting residents of a retirement center, delivering meals to senior citizens, driving them to appointments, passing out food at a soup kitchen, collecting used clothes to be donated or making first aids kits for

Community service contributes to a community in the same way that quarterbacks, wide receivers, and offensive linemen contribute to a football team. Without people helping out, there wouldn’t be a way to score a touchdown or win a game. It is the same way in helping out a community. The more people there are helping out, more homes would be built, more mouths would be fed, and more people would have a happy life. Some people take for granted the clothes they have on their backs and the table they get to eat dinner at with their family. There are plenty of people in communities that do not have a home to come to every night. There are plenty of people that do not have the clothes, food, or money they need to survive. People are not the only thing that needs help in the community. Animal shelters are also one of many that could always use an extra hand. Recycling and picking up trash is another way to help out. One of the best ways to contribute to the community is volunteering and contributing time to helping others. Studies show that community service contributes to the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of people at any age.

It could be gathering all of the unopened cans sitting in your kitchen cabinets, throwing them into a box, and dropping that box off at the local food pantry on your way to work. It could be spend a few hours of your weekend helping serve meals to starving homeless people, or travelling down to an animal hospital downtown to help take care of animals. It could be picking trash off the ground on the side of the road. It could even be as simple as volunteering to shovel an elderly neighbor’s walkway after a heavy snowstorm, or rake their leaves as summer turns to fall. All of these acts could be defined by two words: community service. Anything done on a voluntary basis to help out your community is considered community service.