National Honor Society Pillars

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The National Honor Society has four pillars and they are character, scholarship, leadership, and service. I feel I best exemplify the pillar of service. I have completed eighty-two hours of community service so far in my high school career and I plan on enlarging that number as my high school career carries on. My hours of service are distributed between three things, FCA athletics gate concessions and set up/clean up, hurricane clean up, and baking cookies for the Homeless Coalition. The majority of my service hours have been spent helping out at school athletic games such as volleyball, basketball, and football. Helping out at athletic games, I have accumulated forty-two hours of service. Before the games start, I set up chairs and tables for the players on the …show more content…
One example of this is when Coach Stevie was missing his penalty flag for a flag football game, I ran to the Gym, found his flag and ran it back out to him on the field. Whenever the school has something going on, Mr. Wood asks the cadet to help get the gym ready for the bounce houses and set them up. One time while we were getting the gym ready for the bounce houses, the bleachers would not slide closed. Mr. Wood asked Me, Andrew and Aj to figure out why it was not sliding closed and to fix it. I spent several days with the FCA Cadets doing hurricane clean up for members of the church and military widows after Hurricane Ian came through. During this time examples of things we removed from their yards are tree branches, trees, fallen sheds, fallen fences, shingles, trampolines, etc. Later, once school started, Mr. Calger, his son and I were asked to go out to a church member’s home to remove some furniture. Some of the furniture was water damaged and had to be brought out to the street, and others were still dry and usable, so we moved into a separate room for later use. In total, I completed twenty-eight hours of hurricane