I heard about YAC from my mother, Elinor Marsh, who participates in many service organizations with Marshall including Rotary, fundraising events, and a board member on several non profits. I am interested in joining YAC mostly because I have been raised in a family with a life long commitment to community service in Marshall which has made me want to follow in their footsteps of putting work towards Marshall and changing it for the better. Some good qualities I can share with YAC include my easy learning capabilities, my productiveness, and my strong work ethic that holds me accountable to any task that I start. These could all make me a productive and helpful member of YAC.

What community service means to me is the willingness to work for your community without expecting anything in return. I have seen community service in action and it has shown me how many people don't rely on being paid to work for something. They willingly complete tasks solely for the love of what they are doing it for. This has made me feel that I should show these hard working people that I can also work because I love my town, and am willing to work for it like they are.

For people with academic pressure, the first step I would take for them is for someone to meet up with them if they are wanting help and find out what exactly they are struggling with. Then I would have those people recommend services that could help with their specific academic problems. The next step that could be taken is for study groups to be made for each subject. People can sign up for these study groups and then pick days to meet up and talk with each other on what there are struggling on, possibly with a teacher that teaches that specific subject. After that I would give options of one on one tutoring for students that need help with a certain subject and another student that excels in it and is willing to help others out. And if it weren't to be that unrealistic, the next step that could be take is the school could open afterschool classes that teach students how to be more productive with their time, how to study properly, how to push your self to have a good work ethic that could help you for the rest of your life, etc. These classes could happen weekly or monthly and be taught by teachers that are willing to help those students in need.

During the school year, I participate in many activities including tennis, golf , theatre, band, and a job which might all get in the way of this organizations meets but I will assure you that I will try my hardest to work schedules, games, etc. around these meets to assure a stable status in YAC. This means talking to coaches and finding others to fill my shifts if they do interfere.

No, I have not.