Juniors Care for the Community

This morning, 850 Avon High School juniors descended upon the Town of Avon today for the 10th-annual AHS celebration of community involvement: Junior Day of Caring.

Having AHS juniors come and work so hard to beautify our grounds is such a gift to our families. Sheltering Wings Executive Director Cassie Mecklenburg

"My friends and I had a great time," says AHS junior Emery Clark. "We love volunteering and helping in the community and we don't get the opportunity to do things like landscaping a lot so it was both fun and meaningful."

Collaboration and servanthood are two AHS core values*, and students put their shared values in action on Junior Day of Caring. They ate lunch with students, painted murals, picked weeds, spread mulch, detailed senior citizens' cars, and much more. Even more important than the work the students did — which is impressive in and of itself — is the hands-on, up-close introduction students got to the work of many vital community organizations and the impact they can make when they roll up their sleeves and give back back to their community.

It was both fun and meaningful. AHS junior Emery Clark

"Having AHS juniors come and work so hard to beautify our grounds is such a gift to our families." says Sheltering Wings Executive Director Cassie Mecklenburg. "It lets survivors of domestic violence know our community cares about them."

Multiple organizations participated in Junior Day of Caring:

• Avon Schools: Administration Center, Avon Outdoor Learning Center, Avon Academy, AIS East, AIS West, AMS North, Cedar, Hickory, Maple, Pine Tree, River Birch, Sycamore, and White Oak ELC
• Avon Youth Sports
• Crossroads Church
• Hendricks Civic Theater
• WS Gibbs Memorial Park
• Hendricks County Senior Services
• Light and Life Church/Preschool/Pantry
• Mental Health of America Hendricks County
• Park Square Manor
• Splash Island
• Sheltering Wings
• Sugar Grove Senior Living
• Washington Township-Avon Fire Department
• Pecar Park Nature Center
• Washington Township Park

Thank you, students, for sharing your energy, strength, and talent with the community.

* AHS defines collaboration as 'tapping out collective wisdom and strengths to continually improve and pursue excellence' and servanthood as 'giving of ourselves to best meet the needs of others'. Their other core values are passion, integrity, trust, empathy, resilience, and empowerment.