Definition of NJHS Service Hours:
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Time spent performing a service to others without compensation
Giving of your time to help other people at our school and in our community
40 total hours are due by the end of April, 2016 (exact date will be announced in the spring) –
each member must complete 20 school hours and 20 community hours
School Service: 20 hours total
Examples that count the FULL TIME:
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Staying after school to help at a football game (helping move the chains or doing another job,
not just an audience member!)
Staying in the evening to help with selling concessions at the play
Coming to a parent night to welcome and guide parents (like conferences)
Taking work home to help a teacher or giving up your lunch time to help a teacher
Examples that count HALF TIME:
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Anything you do before or after school that is primarily for another EMS club
Staying after school to clean up the cafeteria after a WEB event
Coming early to school to help raise money for a fundraising event
Coming before school to work in the garden because you are a member of EcoTeens
Working after school on the Concrete Couch project because you are in Art Club
Community Service: 20 hours total
Examples that count the FULL TIME:
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Working at a food bank
Working at a homeless or animal shelter
Helping collect items at the holidays
Mowing the yard or shoveling snow for an elderly neighbor (with no compensation!)
Babysitting for no compensation!
Service Opportunities that DO NOT COUNT:
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WEB training day
Work done as a TA – this is a class and you earn a grade
Work done during Eagle Time – again, this is a class
Committee work done in Teen Leadership – this is an expectation of all NJHS members