Definition of "Leadership Development Activity"
The definition of a “Leadership Development Activity” is limited only by your personal gifts, skills, talents, abilities, passions, creativity, opportunities, and ability to articulate the leadership value in your proposed activity. Young ladies have proposed a variety of leadership activities and each has been given careful consideration by the review committee. Some of the activities that have been awarded in the past are categorized below.
- Conference Attendance: National Council on Family Relations (NCFR); Wesleyan/Holiness Women Clergy; Worship and the Arts; Model UN; Dramatic Problem Solving; Art Therapy; Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO); Women’s Leadership Symposium; PA Family & Consumer Sciences, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education; and Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training Workshop
- Study Programs: Oregon Extension Program; International Peace & Conflict Resolution Program; and Los Angeles Internship Program
- Individual Projects: West Africa Pump Project; Honors Project in Guatemala relative to Sustainable Community Development; Developing a Leadership Seminar for first-year Pre-Education majors; Study of Monks in Thailand (senior thesis); Field Research in Uganda (senior thesis); Creating a Children’s Book about Messiah College through a Child’s Eyes; National Trumpet Competition; and Visiting Seminaries for United Methodist Church Ordination
- Student Leader Opportunities: Coordinator of Ukraine Missions Trip; Young Life Camp Counselor; Senior Staff Member at White Sulphur Springs Christian Camp; and Student Leader of Education Site Team in Bukina Faso, West Africa