Final 12 months, Westminster Christan College senior Jaden Bradford began the group Mission S.O.W. (Sharing Our Wonders).
“It’s a group outreach group that promotes incapacity consciousness and connects WCS highschool college students to our native particular wants group,” she says.
She has performed a few toy drives, and he or she has usually volunteered on the Champion’s Room at Alpha and Omega Church.
“I did this 12 months’s toy drives with the help of a neighborhood legislation agency and the Westminster group,” she says.
“We raised over 250 toys. We hope to offer every pupil at the very least two toys. There are 80 college students on the faculty,” she says.
They had been anticipating to ship the unwrapped toys earlier than the semester ended.
“The varsity kinds the toys to see which youngsters get which toys,” she says.
She’s serious about serving to the particular wants group as a result of her sister has particular wants.
“We supported her faculty via the vacation toy drives,” she says. “Moreover, we help the Champion’s room on the Alpha and Omega Church the place we volunteer with the youngsters whereas the mother and father are at church. We entertain the youngsters within the room. We do arts and crafts and puzzles.”
Bradford says they’ve participated within the Friendship Circle annual fundraising effort by having members of the membership and others take part as a staff in Walking4Friendship Stroll-a-thon.
“We raised over 650 {dollars} for the trigger,” she says.
Membership members additionally labored with the WCS Social Research Nationwide Honor Society to create 80 summer time themed baggage for college kids at a neighborhood particular wants faculty in Miami, the place her sister attends.
The WCS college students additionally attended an legal professional led presentation on what occurs when a toddler turns 18 and how one can set up guardianship.
Bradford is an athlete at WCS. She’s been the varsity women golf captain for 3 years.
“That is the primary 12 months the college has ever made regionals. I’ve made all Miami-Dade Honorable Point out each sophomore and junior years. This 12 months hasn’t come out but” she says.
She’s been taking part in golf since she was six or seven. She’s ranked within the prime 300 out of 2443 by Florida Excessive College Athletic Affiliation. She has been a member of the Gold Coast Junior Golf Basis, in addition to being a member of the South Florida PGA Junior Tour.
She has participated in golf tournaments outdoors of the highschool season.
“They had been weekend tournaments. Generally you play on each Saturday and Sunday. The event can be both 18 or 36 holes. Generally one of many days will get rained out so that you come again later,” she says.
Her different faculty actions embrace being a member of the Nationwide Honor Society, the Science Nationwide Honor Society, Rho Kappa, Mu Alpha Theta, the World Language Nationwide Honor Society, and the English Nationwide Honor Society.
She obtained the Princeton Service Award final 12 months and was an Superior Placement Scholar for passing three or extra AP exams with a 3 or above. The Faculty Board gave her Nationwide Hispanic Recognition honors. She is at the moment nominated for Silver Knight within the Social Research class.
Her group service consists of volunteering at a number of summer time camps, together with the one on the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Neighborhood Middle and the Enjoyable Camp at WCS.
Her senior and junior years she spent a part of her summer time working at Zumpano Castro Legislation as an Intern/ File Clerk, the place she shadowed a staff of legal professionals and noticed authorized proceedings.
“I’m serious about being a particular schooling legal professional,” she says. “I’m planning on majoring in Political Science on a Pre-Legislation Observe.”
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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