Help With Extracurriculars

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm only a freshman, but my excurs are weak and I'm looking for suggestions to improve them while there is plenty of time.</p>

<p>Stage Crew (Building crew and running crew)
Key Club (gold award, ie 50 hours a year)
Photos for the school news paper
Part time job (8 hours a week)
FBLA
Student Council
Knowledge Master's Open
Light volunteering (around 20 hours) at the library over the summer, with a few more hours during the school year
Self-Studying APs (Currently doing Psych to get a feel for APs, and I'll follow it up with Envsci and human geo next year, then micro/macro and art history in junior year, and perhaps a few more senior year)</p>

<p>Next year I'm joining my school's FIRST robotics team, the ceramics club that's going to be founded, and Model UN. I'm also trying to found an engineering club, probably JETS.</p>

<p>I was hoping for suggestions about what else I can do, especially more volunteering opportunities.</p>

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<p>Do FIRST Robotics. Also… that’s a lot of activities… how many are you actually purely interested in because you like them?</p>

<p>JETS is good as well.</p>

<p>I’d suggest no more than three to four activities.</p>

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<p>Most of them sound more time-consuming than they are. Knowledge Master’s Open is a two-ish hour even twice a year. My school’s paper has so many photographers I only get an assignment every couple of months. Nearly all my key club work takes place in october/november, which is before most of the other clubs really get started. Only two of my clubs, key club and stage crew, use a large-ish amount of my time.</p>

<p>I really wanted to do FIRST this year, but somehow I missed the sign-ups, and it’s too late now.</p>