Community Service Clean Up

New Director
A new personality has taken the SHARE community by storm. Krissie Wiggins took over SHARE this year after seeing all the good that has come out of this program in the past.

Wiggins has brought new ways to reach out to the community and the East student body in a number of ways. She, along with her student execs, have made connections with Hillcrest Transitional Services, Crossroads Hospice and many elementary schools through all-new programs. She has also introduced a text alert system that sends messages to anyone involved in SHARE reminding them to sign up for any upcoming projects.
Senior Grace Satterlee, along with her fellow SHARE execs, are pleased with the new direction Wiggins has taken the program.

“Everything is definitely more organized and simpler with her in charge,” Satterlee said.

More Execs
With a record-breaking eight execs this year, SHARE has been more involved than ever.

“Looking back on previous years it was much harder to get student involvement, but with more execs to tell everyone about new projects we can get more students to help out,” senior executive Lauren Hunter said. “It just makes the whole process easier.”

As a whole, the execs have been able introduce over 10 new projects benefitting new organizations as well as including much more of the student body.

“One of my favorite parts about SHARE is getting to bring the whole school together for one goal,” Satterlee said.

Student Involvement
SHARE’s unofficial mission statement as an organization is to bring students together for a common goal. Last year, over 200 people were involved in one or more SHARE project(s) according to former 2013-2014 exec Alex Maday.

“It was a challenge to reach out to students last year because there was no way to contact them,” Maday said. “There was one big sign up at the beginning of the year and after that there were few people to join on to projects.”

This year nearly 300 students have participated in at least one SHARE project, a 50% increase overall.
Another big change this year was the use of new technology. As well as the all-new text alert system, the execs have also revamped the SHARE website giving it a more approachable look. Of all the new ways to involve students in SHARE, social media is the front runner. Having over 300 followers in only a few months, the SHARE Twitter page is doing its part in informing students of upcoming projects.

“It is really cool to see students from all over coming together to help better the community,” senior exec Rachael Haskell said.

Projects
Each year SHARE starts off by looking at past projects and finding ways to improve them. This year was no different.

They started off looking at last year’s dodgeball tournament. They looked at the amount of people who participated and compared it to the amount of revenue they were able to produce. The execs decided to advertise the tournament much more and require more canned food then last year to enter the tournament. In the end they collected more cans than the year prior and had nearly 30 more students participate.

The execs went through the same process for the most popular projects of last year and began to create new ideas for this year. Some of the most significant include a garage sale to benefit the funds of SHARE, a service project to benefit “Giving the Basics” and a very popular senior service project to benefit a nearby apple orchard.

As a whole, SHARE has been able to help over 30 different organizations raise money and bring students together for a common goal.

“It is so cool to see organizations and companies come to us for help,” Satterlee said, “It shows how far this organization has come and the kind of reputation we have throughout the community.”