What Is My Participation In National Honor Society

Throughout my high school career, I have been given numerous opportunities to lead other students by example, work ethic, volunteerism, and school involvement.

I believe that my greatest impact as a leader in high school has been through my participation in a Service Learning Class. This class gave me the chance to help and lead others by tutoring younger students in the middle school and elementary school. As a senior, I felt responsible for providing a voice for the class in ideas and decisions to help better our school. I worked with administrators, teachers, and class members to promote healthy habits of responsibility, school pride, respect, and service. This class also allowed me to lead special needs students by teaching important life skills, such as cleaning , vacuuming, shredding, and hygiene. Most of my work in this class was also unsupervised, which provided me with valuable personal guidance experience.
My participation in National Honor Society also gave me important leadership experience.
Through this organization, I was given the opportunity to lead by way of volunteerism and school involvement, participating in over twenty-five hours of community service. I was able to work with organizations like Feed the Children, packaging and loading boxes with supplies for Sandy Hurricane Relief workers, as well as Kaboom, NIKE, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe in a community playground build for Little Axe youth. I also worked to pick up trash around my neighborhood on two occasions, completing a total of ten hours of community service. At school I emptied recycle boxes of teachers at least once every two weeks and worked in NHS sponsored events like our annual Pi
Day.

Another leadership experience would be my involvement in Little Axe Student Council. As an active member in STUCO, I was able to work and lead on school projects and events such as the STUCO Halloween Haunted House, STUCO float in the in the homecoming parade, and a school festival.

I have also gained significant leadership experience by playing sports at the high school level, even though it was just for only one year. Although I was only a freshman at the time, I was committed to leading my teammates in practice and games by my work ethic, drive, consistency, and devotion to all of the sports I played, in hopes that I could establish an attitude of hard work, motivation, and improvement. I was one of two freshman that qualified for the 2011 3A State Cross Country Meet, and I earned two medals in previous meets that year. In basketball, I played point guard and shooting guard at the Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity level and dedicated myself to playing team basketball. In track and field, I ran the 3200m race primarily, and led the group of long distance runners on the team as a freshman. I also ran the 400m, 800m, and 1600m races and earned one medal over the season. Although I love team sports and still remain as active and in shape as possible today, I stopped playing sports after my freshman year to give myself more time to focus on academics and school organizations.

I feel that my experience as a leader is not limited to just school activities. As the oldest male child in my family, I feel it is very important to be a leader and role model for my two younger brothers and one younger sister. I led them by embracing an attitude of respect, honesty, responsibility, faith, and obedience. I set an example by committing myself to excellence in my education and involvement in the community.

My leadership experiences are very important to me because they have made me who I am today. They helped me to grow and learn while helping others at the same time. I hope to continue to be a leader in any way that I can in the future.