I wake up to the sound of my dad's voiced yelling “come on get up” i look at my phone its only 6:00 AM… on a saturday morning. I should be out doing something better than this i think to myself, It's cold out, i don't wanna be here,i hope this ends soon eleven years wow i’ve missed out on so much i wish i never joined up.. I've been in scouting since i was in 1st grade started from the bottom at a tiger cub and now eleven years later i've made it to the top becoming an eagle scout. The journey wasn't always smooth sailing though, when i was younger i didn't have much care about what i did with my free time and if scouts interfered with it meetings where thursday nights 6:30-8:00 we built fires learned first aid and how to read a map and compass,…
350 word limits Essay Question - Other than your Eagle Scout leadership service project, what service have you provided to your community during your high school years? During my high school years, I have primarily provided service through my participation in the Christiana Care VolunTeen program and through the various clubs that I lead. The Christiana Care VolunTeen program allows young adults to help serve at the hospital in various areas, often exposing teenagers to how a hospital operates. Specifically, I worked in the Outpatient Pharmacy, SurgiCenter, and Pathology/Histology Lab, assisting patients and doctors with their various needs and tasks.…
I was in cub scouts when I was little and I have a lot of pretty good memories from it. I started cub scouts in 1st grade when I was six years old and was in it until the beginning of third grade when I was eight years old. I was in two different, “packs,” when I was in cub scouts one in Illinois and one in Washington state. In Illinois I was a tiger scout which is also the lowest rank in cub scouts. I competed in my first pine wood derby that year…
I prepared for every task that was thrown at me such as helping pick up garbage at our church, throwing plastic bottles in recycling bins, and helping the elderly. Going through being a Cub Scout, we also got to help the church by repainted their signs for Sunday’s Mass. As I progressed through the ranks, I achieved the Webelos rank. As a Webelo, I got to help out with doing spaghetti dinner’s for a Christian religion group, fish fry for donating money to the Knights of Columbus, Church Rummage Sale, and help set out Easter Eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt for the little ones after mass had ended.…
Camp is place unlike any other. It is a place that people’s wall begin to fall down and new relationships are formed. This is bound to happen when you drop 200 teenagers in the middle of the Smoky Mountains without any of their electronics. I was lucky enough to be chosen for the Project Serve team and got to see camp from a new perspective. I got to be a part of all of the behind the scenes work, but also daily interactions with all of the campers due to my job at camp.…
Remembering an Event I have been in scouts almost my whole life. I have even achieved the highest rank in boy scouts which is known as Eagle Scout. When I was trying to become an Eagle Scout I had to do many things, but one of the many was a project. The project I had picked was meant to help others in the community.…
Most teenagers would probably tell you that the beginning of their adulthood was marked by having to do laundry for the first time, or being able to drive alone, or perhaps no longer sitting at the children's table at family events. But for me, it happened this past summer, when I made the very difficult decision that I would not return to Coleman Country Day Camp. To those who were not fortunate enough to have grown up at summer camp, this might not seem like such a big decision to make. But Coleman was my outlet, my second home for ten consecutive summers and spending those two months anywhere else seemed inconceivable to me.…
The following summers, going to camp was not just an option, but something I could not get enough of. When I was old enough, I became a counselor, and I continue to enjoy helping make camp as enjoyable of an experience for…
During the summer, I was a D.A.R.E. Camp leader. Being a positive role model for the younger age is very important while each of the kids are still growing to find themselves. Having an encouraging yet open-minded personality I was able to express to them how acts of kindness make everyone feel…
Through those activities there were some kids who were struggling at some activities. I motivated them to keep pushing on, giving them pointers on how to complete the activity. I felt connection to the campers within a week. For example even though I didn’t do a challenge myself, I still felt accomplished by helping out the campers to complete the activity. This experience taught me to trust people who I never meet before.…
Because of my experience as a Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) I realized not only do I love helping people but I want to center my life around helping children. I've been involved in many different types of service activities but the one that has impacted me the most was being a YVC I volunteer over the summers supervising and mentoring children from second to eighth grade. Over each summer I've seen myself and the children grow, both helping each other see the world through others eyes. I still visit the kids I've had in the past years and seeing them go off into high school shocks and excites me because I know how mature they grow over the years. Through the summer with the eighth graders the volunteers try to help them mature to…
The trip to a camping site in the middle of a Pennsylvania forest- a trip I would never forget- lead me to the discovery of myself and my transition into adulthood. This trip was through the summer camp I have attended for now eleven years; Liberty Lake Day Camp located in Columbus, New Jersey, is my second home. I grew up in this camp, and when I finally reached the age to become a L.I.T, a leader in training, I was eager to undergo the program with my friends I always attended camp with. This trip was a reward to all the hard work we do as L.I.Ts. Little did I know the annual L.I.T trip to the camping site would be life changing.…
Ever since I was six years old cheering on my local Pop Warner team, I have dedicated an unwavering amount of time and dedication to my beloved sport. Whether it’s staying at school until six o’clock every day or spending my weekends making choreography for my team, cheer affects my life inside and outside of school. The life lessons and qualities I’ve developed through cheer are traits that I can utilize for the rest of my life. Most notably, cheer has taught me the value of hard work. My team at Kennedy High School has competed in 3 competitions through Sharp Internationals and Jamz Cheer and Dance.…
Girl Scouts has been an important part of my life since I can remember. Girl Scouts helped me to learn to be practical, independent, strong, and most importantly, a leader. Put simply, Girl Scouts has molded me into the extremely driven person I am today. So you can imagine the shock and dismay I felt when my troop disbanded earlier this year. Though we were all members of the highest level of Girl Scouts as a girl could be, I thought the troop would remain intact until I went to college.…
I’ve had many positive experiences in my life, but my experience joining the Air Force and completing Basic Training had the greatest impact. I did not take high school seriously, because I signed to join the Air Force in my junior year of high school. Since I knew where I was going, I did not feel the need to apply myself in all my classes. I did just enough to graduate high school. Then September came, the month I left to Basic Military Training.…