As a senior at Woodside High School, it is my goal to stay focused so that I will graduate in June, the year of 2015. My grades have always been superior; I have been on the honor roll every marking period since my freshmen year in high school. I am involved in many extracurricular activities that I love participating in to help others. I have previously volunteered at Greenwood Elementary school, and also at my church. Furthermore, I have been involved in certain clubs, cheerleading, as well as the dance magnet for my four years at Woodside High. Getting accepted into the dance magnet for Woodside when I started out as a freshman was one of my favorite accomplishments, and I have really enjoyed it. Many students have particular styles of dance considered to be their favorite; however, as for me all styles are amazing due to my passion for dance. The dance magnet at Woodside High School comes in …show more content…
Throughout my years attending Woodside, I joined the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), and Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA). Being involved with these two clubs so far has provided me with the astonishing lessons that I will need in life to have a successful future for myself. Also, I am planning to go very far in life after high school due to these two important clubs because of the many ways they have helped me as an individual. Not only did I participate in clubs but I have also volunteered at Greenwood Elementary School. Being a volunteer at this school involved me working with kindergarteners and 1st graders. My duties included reading to the children, helping with any assigned classwork or homework, making sure they are safe, and assisting the teachers with anything they needed help with. I have always had a passion of helping others and volunteering at Greenwood was a very enjoyable experience for
My Senior year in High School has officially begun, only one more year at Corona High. I know that Senior year is supposed to be fun, but I believe every year is an opportunity to improve. I have already set my goals for this school year. I believe I can achieve a GPA of 4.0 or above. However, there are some personal goals that I need to complete first. I need to stop my terrible habit of procrastinating. Another goal of mine is to pass my AP tests so I can earn college credit. I also want to learn new things, so I started to learn the basics of Coding, now I need to finish this course. These are some things I look to accomplish this year.
Next year, as I embark my first year at university, I hope to fully integrate myself into the community by getting involved in the Students' Union, joining the cheer team, volunteering where I can and making many new friends along the way. At university, I hope to maintain a high grade point average, granted that my education is extremely important to me and that I am extremely ambitious about achieving my goals.Therefore, I will commit lots of my time to my studies in hopes of being a successful student. Nevertheless, I am still looking forward to being a part of the community by devoting my extra time to helping those around me. In classes, I intend on being an active learner, a respectful student, and a helpful classmate; someone who is always willing to lend a hand to others. Through engaging in my community, I hope to bring joy to others around me by spending my time supporting local events, volunteering for fundraisers, and helping plan and organize campus activities.
With the help of the Me To We team at Queen Street Public School, I volunteered at a local food bank. The experience was quite educational and fascinating. We encouraged staff and students to donate non-perishable food items for the "We Scare Hunger" campaign. This was definitely a highlight of my grade five year because I felt very humble and warm-hearted by doing a simple act of kindness. In addition, I was chosen to participate in the "Intergenerational" program. This was created so that grade five students can learn more from the elders of the Burton Manor senior home. We had the privilege to learn about their history and interact with them through several educational and fun activities. If accepted, I will indeed join several clubs and teams to contribute my time and talents to make the school an exciting learning
After joining however I quickly realized the difference I could make in someone’s life by simply donating a few hours of my time. The school children I mentor 2-3 times a week are one of the greatest delights. Many of them do not receive any one on one time with another individual except for when I am tutoring them. These children have such great potential if only their parents and other adults around them would take the time to see it. It fills me with great satisfaction knowing that I am making a difference in those who one day may be leading this
I have done so by participating in numerous activities, and when I commit to something, I put all my effort into it, to the fullest extent of my ability. This allows me to be able to meet and cultivate relationships with new people at Roswell High School that I would not have met otherwise. In forming these newfound friendships, I have been able to mature socially and emotionally; I learned to nurture my ability to empathize with others and to express my care and compassion for others more easily. This has allowed me to realize my true heart for people, and I have used these skills, along with my enthusiasm and sense of humor, to encourage an environment of school pride.
I went out to collect cans for the food shelter, I helped out at the bowling special olympics, and in December I volunteered to help set up a 5k races Autism, and the thing I took out of my volunteering experiences so far is that everyone has a story and to take the time to listen to others and connect with the world around you. In my experiences you can learn more serving people for an hour than you can learn in a week of classes. My only regret in my freshman year of college is that I didn’t figure out this sooner than I did.
During the summers of 2013, 2014 and 2015, I volunteered at my mother's Second Cup cafés accumulating over 300 hours in total. This volunteering experience helped me develop self-esteem, socialization skills, surmount shyness and become a strong team player. I contributed by serving customers, brewing and grinding coffee, conducting inventory counts and making simple drinks. I plan to volunteer again next year. The experience encouraged me to volunteer at my previous school's CASA science camp for one month.
Ever since I began my Freshman year of high school, I started contemplating about my life after graduation. Since I was in the fourth grade, I was awarded for my academic excellence. In middle school, for my seventh and eighth grade year I was in the Junior Beta Club. As an award we got to have the opportunity to travel to New York City and to Washington D.C.
Volunteering to me is much more than just something I’m doing to build my resume, its something that I actually enjoy doing. In high school I was heavily involved in Key Club, an international service organization that promotes aiding others and student leadership. The collegiate version of Key Club is Circle K International (CKI), which is another Kiwanis sponsored organization; this organization advocates and performs community service at hundreds of campuses across the globe. I decided to join Circle K in college to continue evolving with an organization whose goal is to help develop community-minded leaders.
I feed off the smiles on people's face and the exuberance they get when they see me volunteering. Other volunteering opportunities I did are serving Thanksgiving dinner at the Community Center and ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. These opportunities helped open my eyes and made me substantively more empathetic to those in the world who might be struggling in my own community. I am very grateful to have volunteered and for having it help me expand as a person. At UW- La Crosse I will convey this experience and augment the campus by treating everyone with consideration and as an equal and helping those in
I have successfully worked towards my goals with my academic achievements, my community service, and my work experience. My volunteer experiences with Habitat for Humanity, ADOAA, and my father’s nursing home have helped me develop strong leadership skills, and have taught me how to interact with a wide variety of people. In addition to my volunteer experiences I work off campus throughout the semester at Olive Garden as a certified trainer and I am in the Army Reserves. The combination of my volunteer experiences, both of my jobs, maintaining my grades, and actively participating on campus, I have matured immensely and mastered time management.
I volunteered at Motivate Our Minds on Highland Dr. in Muncie, Indiana. There I assisted students from grades K-8 with homework and other club activities. The main role I serve is “mentor” or role model. We help the teachers get stuff ready for lesson, snack, and club activities. On a daily basis, we would sign in and separate into the two different classrooms K-4th and 5th-8th. They had different set-ups and I got the opportunity to work in both rooms. In the younger room, we would do homework to start out with and then they had a “tic-tac-toe” worksheet for different activities that the children could work through during the week. They then have a meeting they call “community circle”; where they discuss the things that could have gone better and the things that went great that day. By that time, it is time for the SVS volunteers to leave. In the older kid’s room, they start by doing homework, then they do a journal, and finally they do their different community activities. Slowly, both of the classrooms get released to get snack.
Many other experiences have made me who I am today. I volunteered throughout most of my high school years. I participated in clubs such as the Keystone Club and Future Farmers of America. During my senior year of high school, I volunteered my free time to aid a former English teacher of mine with conducting class and grading papers. Upon starting college at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC), I made sure to get my foot in the door with a lot of clubs.
Throughout my life I have constantly faced challenges and set reasonable goals. Many of the goals I’ve set are short term and require multiple steps to achieve. One of those personal goals is to finish out the senior school year by taking advantage of as many opportunities as possible. As new chances come along throughout the school year, whether they be educational or extracurricular, my ultimate goal is to participate in as many of those activities as I can. My educational short term goal consists of the college process. The plan is to graduate high school with all the required forms and applications needed for college. All of these preparations have been inspired by the hope of a bright future and the idea that college will be much
I spent most of my time in a first grade classroom. In this classroom I observed the children as well as the teacher and paraprofessional. This classroom had children with special needs and that is why there was a paraprofessional in the classroom for half the day. What I observed in this classroom was how children with special need should be handle and taught. The teachers in this room loves her job and each student in her class. While in the classroom the teacher allowed me to help with children with their work, read to them and help them with anything else that they needed. During this field experience I got to give back to not only a school, but to a community that is very near and dear to my heart. I hope that I touched each student in a special way, because the students that I got the opportunity to help learn touched my