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Essay On National Honor Society

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To be a member of the National Honor Society is a great award and achievement and it means you have worked hard and achieved in school as well as volunteered and been involved in both the school and outside community. However, once you are a member it doesn't mean you can halt all your work and coast through the rest of your high school years. You must continue to work at good grades and more importantly you need to keep working on ways to benefit our school and outside community. You need to be generous with your time and ingenious with your ideas in order to create a lasting impact. If accepted into the national honors society, I plan on contributing to that lasting impact with my previous experiences with volunteering and leading others, as well as my dedication to the society and the moral code it upholds. I have a variety of experiences volunteering with a variety of people, but specifically a lot with younger children, including Tilly’s kids, coaching, and babysitting. So, that leads me to believe I would excel in the tutoring and Thursday school programs. It also leads me to believe that I would be able …show more content…

Despite it being middle school, my leadership of the first ever NJHS at Sparta Middle School, taught me valuable things about leading and being part of a club with such prestige. As the inaugural chapter of the society, we ran the student-faculty basketball game, baked cookies for Project Self-Sufficiency, and collected food and then visited a local food bank. I learned how much a group of students could impact the community with their actions, something I had previously thought impossible. I will draw from those experiences when presenting my opinion on new service projects and will also try to introduce successful techniques that I used back during my time spent as President of

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