Community Service

Community Service Requirements

All members are expected to be active in the society AND in community service. Any service activity or volunteering must somehow benefit the community or the student's career industry.

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To maintain good standing as a member, students must complete 10 hours of career related community service in addition to the chapter sponsored service event. The hours from participating in the mandatory service project, are NOT considered part of the 10 hours required per year of membership.

Written documentation from the individual in charge of the service activity must be provided for verification. This can be a signed letter or an official email saved as a PDF. If proper documentation is not provided, service hours will not be counted. This will be turned in through Google Classroom along with the log.

If a junior member fails to complete the mandatory number of hours of service and a chapter service project in a school year, they will be required to complete the missing number of hours and the project the following year, IN ADDITION TO that year's requirements.

Community service and volunteering must directly relate to the member's individual career major, and must be first approved by NTHS advisers. School sponsored activities may be accepted with permission from the NTHS advisers. Participation in Discovery Night , Career and Technical Education week or other chapter sponsored events will NOT be acceptable community service activities, as they are required for membership.

Any member not reaching the organization’s goal of community service requirement per year of membership by graduation will lose graduation privileges.

Community Service is defined as services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions without any compensation, monetary or otherwise.

Community service is NOT selling to raise money to offset costs for the organization or individuals of the organization, such as field trip costs. Any community service for fundraising must be for school sponsored/honor society endorsed projects or organizations whose money is going directly to a non-for-profit foundation/cause.

Community Service is not helping a teacher grade papers or organize materials, unless it is for a school sponsored/honor society endorsed community service project.

Service is not completing projects for career major teachers during class time.

The following are considered acceptable times for completing community service during the school day: students’ scheduled lunch times; 30 minutes before and after school; school sponsored/honor society endorsed field trips; activity period.

A log of community service activities must be submitted by June 1 of each membership year, with documentation.