Leadership For Service

As part of Leadership for service on the second day, ambassadors took part in four different service projects that each benefited the community in a different way.

Led by the project managers, Courtney Reed, Shannon Oakley, Riley Sorem and Cassidy Puderbaugh. Ambassadors rotated between four stations.

The first station consisted of making dog toys. Ambassadors started by cutting scraps of denim into strips. They then braided the strips and tied knots in the end to ensure they would stay together. Over 200 dog toys were made to be sent to humane societies all around the Manhattan area.

From there, the groups would rotate every 25 minutes. Following the dog toys however, was the books station. Here, the ambassadors would create a group of no more than five and pick a child’s book. After selecting their book, the small group practiced reading the books, so that when recorded, they would sound correct and interesting. These books would be paired with the recording, and sent to a children’s hospitals, to help with boredom through long stays.

The next rotation was the project of making bibs. Ambassadors used denim and t-shirt material to cut out a pattern. They would then pin the two pieces of fabric together followed by attaching a shape such as a star or heart, also made out of t-shirt material, to the front. The bibs would later be sent to foster home systems. 55 bibs were pinned and ready to go by the end of all rotations.

Lastly, the groups would rotate to the flowers station. Here, each rotation of groups had their own jobs. First group transported all the potting soil, flowers, and pots to the area that we would be planning. Next group was in charge of putting rocks and soil in the bottoms of each pot to prepare for the next group to plant. After third group planted flowers, the fourth and final group loaded to pots of flowers back into vehicles to be transported to a local nursing home.

With phase two, leadership through service, finished, it leaves only one phase left.