During my junior year of high school I was a member of Wilkes Barre Junior Leadership. It is a program for high school juniors who want to develop their leadership skills and become more involved within their community. One of the criteria to graduate from the program is to complete a community service project. My group and I decided to hold a 5K run and one mile walk to benefit a local animal shelter. We called the event, “Paws for a Cause”. I faced many challenges during my time in Junior Leadership. I worked with a group of people I was unfamiliar with, since we were all from different schools. I remember being very quiet and not knowing what to say to my fellow group members. I had so many great ideas to pitch for our service project, but …show more content…
I learned how to work with and trust a group of people that I did not know that well. After I finally brought myself to open up to them, I realized they were kids just like me. The friendships formed very quickly once we became familiar with each other. I even asked one of my group members to my prom. I learned to step outside my comfort zone and ask people, like business executives, to help me. I was never one to ask for help, but I now realize sometimes you do need the help of others to be successful. I learned how to advertise and network an idea, or an event in this case. I ended up getting many of my friends and family to come. They all had a great time as well. I also learned to keep calm in stressful situations. I remember one big problem my group and I ran into was buying enough t-shirts for the attendees. We bought about 150 shirts but, the night before we realized that we would need a lot more. Obviously, we panicked. However, once we brainstormed, we came up with the idea of giving people rainchecks. We ordered more shirts and delivered them to the people who did not receive one on the day of the 5K. The plan worked out