Throughout my freshman and sophomore year, I was an active member in my school's Jr Civitan club. I didn’t feel I was making as big an impact as I could. So, when given the opportunity to go to a new school and start a new club, I was ecstatic.  I decided to run for the role of president; which would give me the platform to help build a strong club.  I began the work of starting from the ground up when the club was chartered in October.  I held the goal to fill the needs of the community and connect in a deeper way. 

After winning the election for president, I led all meetings of the club. While planning Jr. Civitan events I had plenty of support from my advisor. The Salisbury Civitan Club was also very supportive. I had the opportunity to attend several of the Salisbury Civitan meetings and I even presented at one of them. 

To help club meetings and functions run smoothly, I created an agenda that was given to each member before each meeting. To help with attendance, I sent reminders when projects were planned with any necessary information. As president, I also identified needs in our community that the club could address.  For our 10 service projects throughout the year, I set clear objectives for service projects, developed detailed plans, recruited volunteers, coordinated with outside organizations.  Our service projects included Blockwork, a community improvement project, gifting blankets to every student at a local elementary school, reading to kids at a child development center on National Read Aloud Day, and cleaning up a 2000 foot section of a major connector road in our city.

I also appointed an exhibition committee who created boards illustrating our work as a club to the 60+ visitors our school hosted for our spring student work exhibition.  Not willing to miss an opportunity to connect people through service, I coordinated with the Confidence Project who helped our club members along with exhibition visitors pack toiletry packs for local children.  It was exciting to have our visitors see the depth of our work as well as join us in a project.