KHS seniors today are thoughtfully exploring a variety of meaningful ways to contribute through their senior service, from volunteering in community organizations and mentoring younger generations to participating in environmental projects.
They are seeking opportunities that align with their passions and skills. Many are also considering creative and social initiatives that foster connections and leave a lasting impact on their community.
Seniors are considering helping with elementary schools, community programs, and so much more. The seniors want to help the town by making it a better place for people to come and enjoy themselves.
Seniors, Wyatt Sisco, Tim Nitkinas, and Kirin Kiesel, are helping the community by cleaning up the local pool on Highlands Drive. Wyatt Sisco says, “Working together at the pool will help us learn the basics of having a property of our own and keeping it clean and usable.”
This will help them learn basic yard and home maintenance, helping them when they have a house of their own to look after when they are older. These are some true learning skills that will help KHS students in the future that college might not teach them.
More Kinnelon High School students are helping teachers in younger schools and learning how to help out with children, and learn how to work with them, and learn the basics of being with children.
Some KHS students working with the younger generations are Seniors Daniella Miglaa and Samantha Ferretti. They want to learn the essentials of working with kids and the principles of how to be patient and really understand the way children act around adults and even other children.
Miglaa says, “It is teaching me to be better with kids and how to be patient and organized with children, and really showing me the ropes of what being around children will help me learn some life lessons for my future self.” This will help students like Miglaa learn some available skills and how to work with children for the seniors’ selves in the future.
Another KHS student working with children in the schools below is Samatha Ferrietti. Ferretti says, “Senior service helps KHS students learn the fundamentals of growing up and really learning life skills that school might not really teach the students. It really makes a difference for the seniors.”
The seniors really show their emotions on how senior service helps them and what it does for the seniors to get out into the world and learn various things that are helpful when they are older.
Maddie Gigante says, “Senior service really makes a big difference for the senior class because at the end of the year, seniors don’t really do much in the classrooms, so senior service really gets seniors to experience new things that they might not know much about.”
Gigante emphasizes a key component of showing why senior service makes a difference in the community, but also for the senior class, and how it really helps the seniors get out into the world and workforce that will really help them in the long run of it all.
