Requirements For ACES Scholarship

You are required to perform 85 hours of service for your scholarship. You are expected to keep a reflective journal of your experiences.

Your online journals are due weekly. They can either be emailed to you to answer or it can be answered online through our ACES WEB CT class.

You are to write in your journal a minimum of two hours per week. THESE HOURS COUNT FOR YOUR TOTAL 85 HOURS. Therefore, if you write two hours a week, you will have about 30 hours (15 weeks) for the semester. This means that your other 55 hours will be spent at your site and doing club projects. When you turn in your journals once a month, there should be 8-10 entries for the previous month in them!!

These types of things should be covered in your journal:

• Why you chose this site.
• What you expect to get out of your work.
• What you expect to be able to “give” of yourself.
• As you go through the semester, concentrate on what you are getting and what you are giving. Reevaluate these subjects every couple of weeks.
• Pay attention to things at your site that have to do with human dynamics. What do you see happening around you?
• How does giving of your time make you feel? Feelings have the strength to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, so be sure to share those feelings with yourself and others.
• If you are in a class that requires you to do community service, you can use these hours for your class or the hours that you do for your class for your scholarship.
• Focus on those things that you are doing in class—can you relate those concepts to work that you are doing?
  
• Be honest in your reflections. Let yourself feel what you are feeling and don’t try to shut those things out.

You must attend meetings for ACES. This helps us to get a feel for where you are as far as hours go and what kinds of things you would like to see the club involved in.

These are the meeting dates for this semester:

• None currently scheduled.

Be sure to turn your hours logged sheets into James at least every other week. We want to help you in any way we can to get your hours and to stay on top of the work that you need to do. We are very flexible. If your site is not working out, come and see us and we will change it!