Year in Review

[ “Year in Review”  is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student.  You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year.  For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Service Engagement

Through ACES I have volunteered at different places with diverse groups of people. One of the places I volunteered at was the Boys and Girls Club and helped out with their homecoming dance. We learned pizza and drinks, took pictures of the kids, and made sure they were having a good time. It was here I met a little girl that reminded me a lot of myself. She was shy and didn’t interact with very many people but she liked hanging out with my friends and I. We spent a lot of time with her that night and we tried breaking her out of her shell to get her to dance with us. We requested songs that she liked and she eventually felt brave enough to dance with us. I think many time people look at volunteering as helping the maximum amount of people you can at a time. Although this is a good goal, I think that helping one person is just as good and fulfilling. The girl reminded me of why I like to help others. It’s important to put a smile on other people’s faces and to give them a break from their normal lives for just one night.

Career

[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career.  Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated.   For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

ACES Pillars Film Project

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For our ACES Seminar we worked in groups and gave presentations on various documentaries we watched and then related it to the 4 Pillars of ACES: Positive Social Change, Advocacy, Community, and Service. My group studied the film called Race to Nowhere. It was about the stress that present day students are under with the excessive amount of homework and expectations they are given to get into a good college and to get good grades. My group had a hard time relating the film to the pillars because it was more about just spreading awareness of the current problem. The filmmaker was a mother herself and thought about the stress that her own children were going through and wanted more parents to be aware of it too. The film called for decreasing the amount of homework that is given to students and to not shine as much emphasis on grades and instead more on learning.

Through this project I learned more about how to work with a group and how to look for and incorporate the ACES Pillars into my everyday life. My group and I shared a common goal of wanted to complete the task at hand on time but we also wanted the project to be meaningful to us and to the people we were sharing the film with. Although many of us did not enjoy the film, we understood the importance of the message it conveyed. Having to look for the pillars in the film made me think about how I can find and strive for them daily.

About Me

img_0010 My name is Hannah Meadows and I am a freshman at The Ohio State University. I am majoring in Early Childhood Education and I hope to be a teacher here in Columbus after I graduate. I love working with kids and helping others. I went to Cloverleaf High School in Lodi, Ohio and I participated in various clubs such as Big Brother, Big Sister, D.A.R.E. Mentoring, National Honors Society, and Key Club. In my spare time I like to spend time with friends and family, read, color, and go for walks. I like to be outdoors and I love to go to the ocean. I have two nieces, ages 2 and 5, and they inspired me to want to become a teacher so I can work with kids everyday. I have the drive to make my community a better place and I joined ACES to help my community and meet other people with the same interests as me.