Enterprising Teens Make a Difference

COURTESY PHOTO What were your extracurricular activities in elementary and middle school? Perhaps you partook in team sports, played at the neighborhood park, rode bicycles with friends…generally, enjoying the simpler times of one’s youth and just beginning to find your own identity, and how that fits in with the world. It may be the deeper sense of interconnectivity through global technological advances bringing us together with the tap of a screen, or simply the evolution of a new, socially-aware generation - no matter the reasoning, youth are taking notice of issues affecting their neighbors, and taking action for positive change. In their spare time, National Honors Society students attending the Sequoia Grove (Clarksville) Charter School are organizing (and seeking donations) for Operation Wrapped In Kindness, a service project designed to collect and distribute warm winter accessories for unhoused, families in need and servicemembers deployed overseas.

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