Is it typical for people to use the same community service hours for more than one purpose? For instance, if you need to complete 30 hours for NHS and 30 hours for a Congressional award. Do you need to do 60 hours total or do people use the same 30 hours for both? To double-count it kind of feels like cheating.
(I don’t know how many hours the Congressional award is. Just using it as an example.)
The Congressional Award has no restrictions on using service hours for multiple purposes, but they do have restrictions on the type of service that counts (service hours must benefit the community at large, not one church or religious organization, for example). However, I believe each chapter of NHS sets its own rules. DD was in NJHS in 8th grade, and they were NOT allowed to double count their service hours towards other programs. She decided to report her service done for the other programs (in addition to reporting the hours for NJHS) to demonstrate she wasn’t “double dipping”.
I would check with the supervisors of each program before assuming that double counting is cheating. It may or may not be the case.