Community is important to me. I grew up in a small town where you knew your neighbors, and chances were that you lived down the street from at least one of your teachers. Where every summer Saturday, the entire block would meet in somebody’s backyard- a fire would be lit, and all of us kids would roast marshmallows and hotdogs, and play on the wooden swing-set, playing out stories and adventures. My community wasn’t just a place where I lived and went to school- it was a family. I want to join the Heberger Young Scholars Academy chapter of the National Honor Society because it will give me a chance to serve my community again- while it might not be Hilliard, Ohio, I love the sense of connection created between two people when one has been
