Home Schoolers Choose Activities 10 Dynamite Tips to Build College Application Resume
30 August 2008
As you start high school, join youth and adult clubs in your community that you would really enjoy. Participate as an appointed or elective officer on the clubs and other groups you belong to. Most groups look for youth representatives, and you have the time to do an excellent job. Look for activities and sports that will make you look your best to the college you eventually want to attend. If you have many talents and interests, be sure to keep your grades up, and achieve at high levels in your activities.
During your high school years, some of the special activities that show you have special talents and abilities include:
Writing
Join the club newsletter staff. Enter writing and essay contests. Compose speeches for contests and debate tournaments. Write a teen column for your local newspaper.
Art, Photography and Drama
Enroll in special design, drawing, painting, ceramic, and pottery classes through your city’s recreation department, continuation or adult school. Act in community plays, or musicals, and work backstage in the community theater. Volunteer to work on the photo staff of local newspaper. Publish in city or local newspapers. Win awards at local art shows and county fairs.
Music
Participate in community orchestras, bands, choirs, madrigal groups, musicals, junior symphonies, summer music camps, music award competitions, and church choirs.
Science
Join the adult radio, science, math and engineering clubs. Participate in regional and national math tournaments and science competitions and fairs. You can win prizes and awards. Subscribe to science magazines or read them at the library.
Sports
Be an active team player in the recreation department sports you like best. Follow a regular training program to develop above average skills.
Agriculture
Join Future Farmers of America, FFA, or 4-H Clubs. Enter state and county fairs to gain awards, prizes, and recognition.
Home Economics
Work hard and compete for awards and prizes at county, state and national fairs. Offer to help a local business in your area of interest.
Technical Arts
Volunteer for experience at auto and body shops, metal shops, manufacturers, and engineering or architectural firms. Schools offer job training through Regional Occupational Programs, ROP. These may be open to you at the Community College .apprentice training programs.
Business
Try out some prospective business careers by working as a volunteer or intern. Be sure to ask for letters of recommendations.
Become an Eagle Scout.. Apply to be a legislative page. Volunteer for your senator, congressman, assemblyman, city councilman, or for local civic and charitable organizations.
Keep track of your high school courses and activities A scrap book for newspaper clippings and awards will give you a wonderful diary for your future life, and will help you fill out your resume your senior year.
Helen Heron-Karnes is a dedicated educator, author and publisher. She graduated from Pomona College, received her teaching credentials from UC Berkeley and is a Reading Specialist. She taught high school in Livermore, CA for thirty-five years, and retired as “Teacher of the Millennium”! She has given presentations all over the world, including talks at the World Council on Gifted and Talented Children at The Hague and Hong Kong. Her most recent presentation on “Creative Problem Solving with Gifted Students” was at the Mensa World Gathering in Orlando in August, 2006. She is the Gifted Children Coordinator for San Diego Mensa. She has just published the newly revised 5th edition of College Countdown, A Planning Guide for High School Students, Contact her at info@heronpub.com or through http://www.heronpub.com
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