As the service hours due date approaches, many students are scrambling to complete all 20 hours, with 15 due for seniors. Service hours for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are due on April 2, while senior service hours are due March 15.

Emily Teter, the Director of Social Justice, is responsible for collecting service hours, coordinating and organizing all on-campus fundraising that is done for charity, and overseeing service trips. Teter finds it important to educate students about current world issues through service. Students are responsible for turning all service hours in to her through a google form that can be found on the student portal.

Teter encourages students to get started on their service hours as soon as possible. She mentioned, “The biggest advice I have for anyone as they go and do service hours is to have an open mind and an open heart about what they can experience through service.” She added, “Try to find something that you’re passionate about, that can make it a little bit easier.”

There is a list on the student portal that gives locations where students can complete service. For each of the four years at AHC, LOTAs will have to complete four categories of service: elderly, youth, disadvantaged, and an open category.

Freshman Liza Itskovich still has not done her service hours. She shared, “I’m really nervous about getting them done because we only have a month left and I have to complete all of them.” She urged students to start their service hours as early as possible next year because it can be very stressful to cram all 20 in.

Freshman Charlotte Covell recently completed all of hers by working with disabled children through the Ark in Montgomery County. She added that if she could change one thing about her service, she would choose to be more involved. She explained that the opportunity “furthers your information on the community and helps to get you to work well with others.”

In terms of advice for people procrastinating on their service hours, Covell suggested, “get them done because you do not want to have to do them last minute.”