Sponsored by YCS and Gunn Student Activities, Service Day is a perfect opportunity for students to go out in the community and help others. Last year more than 200 students participated in Gunn Service Day and visited 10 different sites.

Hand-picked by the YCS staff, the organizations who participate in Service Day provide a variety of different ways for students to reach out to others and help administer service to their communities. Some of the organizations who have participated in past years include:

Here's what some of the students had to say about their experience with Gunn Service Day this year:

• The best part was interacting with a new section of the community that most of us had never realized before.  This was my first time doing a “people” project.
• Seeing the clients work so hard to accomplish little things made me appreciate my own life.
• I’ve worked with autistic kids before and I always got so much out of the experience and wanted to do it again.  It was challenging to get a response from the clients, but the challenge was the experience.
• Getting to know the kids was really fun!  Playing with them was also fun and interesting
• Meeting/hanging out with the kids and teaching them something was great; I felt as if I made a difference
• I liked working with the preschoolers and remembering how fun pre-school was.
• Hoeing in Half Moon Bay, it was joyful
• Planting new plants was fun
• Learning about the importance of native plants was interesting
• Learning new things in the kitchen and communication with people I always see but never talk to was a new experience.
• I learned that homeless people really great people.
• I liked being able to help people immediately.
• I enjoyed socializing with the clients while serving.
• I enjoyed being able to see another group of people in a light different than the one I usually see them in.

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