Candidate 123 National Junior Honors Society Application Essay March 7th, 2023 I believe I am an eligible candidate for NJHS. National Junior Honor Society, or NJHS, is a program permitted to students that show the following characteristics: Leadership, Service, Scholarship, Citizenship, and a Good and Positive Character. I feel as though throughout my middle school years I have displayed each of these traits a multitude of times. This includes many things such as volunteering for the community, and donating various items for numerous causes. According to a survey I conducted, most people answered that leadership was one of the most important traits of a successful person. Leadership means to not always follow the expectations set by …show more content…
I still tried to do and did many things to help, such as donating food for people in need, cleaning trash on the side of roads, volunteering at the public library, and helping out at the school garden. Overall I had __ service hours written down on my log, which did not document everything I had done. My overall goal is to make our town a better place for the future, which is why I always try my best to help the people in our society. This is why I believe that I show the characteristics of …show more content…
As stated previously, I do my part in society by trying to help out as much as possible and play my role properly. I also have been a part of many clubs and activities, something else I have claimed and explained earlier on in this essay. In fifth grade I was in Builders Club, a club where you can make cards for veterans or people who very unfortunately have an illness. In sixth grade I was in S.A.V.E. Club. This is a club all about the environment where we would supply all teachers with a recycling bin in their classrooms and empty them each week, spread awareness for the environment and what we as a society can do to protect it, held fundraisers, donated food and other items to homeless shelters and different charities, cleaned up the school, fixed and grew the school garden, and more. This is why I imagine I exhibit good citizenship. Out of all of these attributes, one sticks out to me the most. Character is, in simple words, your personality and/or how you act. I feel as though this is the most important trait out of the rest, simply because with a lack of character, none of the other characteristics really matter. I feel as though I have conveyed good character in many ways throughout my middle school life. This includes complimenting my friends, holding the door for people, helping out as much as I can when given