I am a junior at my high school in southern Delaware and have always been heavily involved in all of my activities, usually entailing sports and service groups. One of these service groups that I have been a part of most of my life is Girl Scouts. Trust me when I say it is not all cookie sales and camp songs; you do some really impactful work from a young age. Having achieved my Bronze and Silver Award service project, I decided I wanted to keep serving and round out with my Gold Award, an 80 hour service project.

Rewind to my freshman year of high school, I find myself in an Animal Science 1 course learning all kinds of things when one day my teacher asks me if I wanted to show a pig. And honestly, who can say no to spending their summer with that cuteness all the time. However, I had never shown an animal in my whole life so, accompanied by some traditional freshman awkwardness, I definitely had some first time jitters. After spending that summer with an animal, raising it for market, and showing it; I knew I had found something that I loved and could say I was pretty good at.

After a long-winded explaination about polar aspects of my life, I find myself at the end of my sophomore year in high school, opening age to begin work on a Gold Award Service Project. The hardest part I had with either of my prior projects was finding a topic that I really felt passionate about and wanted to make a difference in. Brainstorming off of my past experience, I found myself reminiscing on the utter confusion I had felt when I first entered the agricultural community. Therefore, I had decided that my project would be a resource to help other people who were confused like me but were interested in trying something new. Showing an animal is not an easy nor common hobby but it is a great way to discover new things about yourself and give back to your local agricultural community struggling in a world of plastic and hot pockets.

*Not to knock hot pockets in the slightest