Community Service Team

Who can join?

Citizenship within the WMA community comes with enormous opportunities and responsibilities. Upon matriculation, each student agrees to adopt the Academy’s belief in broad intellectual development, good physical health, personal accountability, mutual respect and commitment to service.

What are the Activities?

Activities vary per trimester, given the season and weather parameters. Students generally leave campus driven in a WMA vehicle by the Coach to their afternoon destination.

The outcome of the program is to provide assistance and awareness to the community around us and also learn valuable life skills.

Past locations and activities include:

• Food Pantry - deliver and sort non-perishable food items that will be distributed to local community members who are food insecure
• Soup Kitchen - prepare and serve meals to men, women and children who are in need of a healthy meal
• Thrift Store - deliver and sort clothing and household goods
• Elder Home - play games and spend quality time with men and women who reside in assisted living homes
• Support Community Events - attend and serve hot chocolate to runners in the Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passages
• Global Dialogue - Skype with Commander Kasper Moghaddam '86, a Staff Director for the intelligence directive for the U.S. Naval Forces in Japan
• Fundraisers - sell Pulsera bracelets to provide economic opportunities for young Nicaraguans
• Awareness - collect dog items for the Dakin Humane Society, present a Trashion Show to demonstrate sustainability
• Film Screenings - premier films to the WMA community: Waste Land, Water for Haiti, The Cove
• Teen Parent Center - assist teen parents with their children by playing and reading together
• Kids Club - assist at-risk children with their homework

When is it offered?

A new Service Team is formed each trimester. It meets at the end of each day and is offered as a required afternoon activity. There is a minimum of five Saturday meetings per trimester. The time commitment is at least two hours and occurs between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Skills learned

Students who participate in the Community Service afternoon program will gain skills in public, media and community relations, event planning and global economics, all while helping others in need.