Youth Projects
A.C.E. Award
The A.C.E. (Accepting the Challenge of Excellence) Award recognizes high school students who have made a dramatic change in their attitude and performance sometime during their high school years, and are now eligible for high school graduation. These students have often overcome great physical, emotional or social obstacles, yet few receive recognition.
This is a positive program with two key objectives. First, it helps encourage students to overcome their hardships and get back on track toward a high school diploma.
Second, the award recognized those students who are often overlooked for their accomplishments. This special recognition serves as a powerful example to all students that hard work and perseverance really do pay.
Young Citizenship Award
The purpose of the Young Citizenship Award is to find and reward those students who work hard at being good citizens at home, at school and in the community. They don’t shirk when there’s a job to be done. They cooperate with teachers and parents. They’re not necessarily at the top o their class, star athletes or musical or artistic virtuosos. Still, they’re students you would be proud to have as sons or daughters.
The Young Citizenship Award program seeks to prove to these kids that good citizenship counts – to show them that their conduct and attitude is not only notices and appreciated, but that it is also rewarded. Hopefully this kind of recognition at such an important stage in their development will encourage them to maintain a high standard of conduct as they mature and grow into adulthood.
Youth of the Month/Year Award
The National Exchange Club’s Youth of the Month program provides Exchange Clubs with the opportunity to honor outstanding students in the community who have exhibited excellence in academics and leadership. When your club becomes involved in this worthwhile program, you are joining hundreds of other clubs across the country in an effort to identify and recognize the young leaders of our nation.
This monthly program not only enhances career opportunities for those honored, it also promotes good citizenship, a desire for greater scholastic achievement and the development of well-rounded personalities to other young adults in the community. The project’s human-interest appeal generates community-wide attention.
Excel Clubs
EXCEL Clubs are groups of high school students dedicated to improving their schools, communities and country through volunteerism. As members of EXCEL Clubs serve their communities, they also develop valuable leadership and networking skills. EXCEL Club members learn by doing. The students, with the help of a school advisor, lead the club, decide on how to serve their school and community and then get actively involved in doing just that.
Each EXCEL Club is sponsored and mentored by a local Exchange Club. EXCEL Clubs may be formed in any secondary school, including public, private, parochial or vocational schools. The two basic requirements for chartering an EXCEL Club are: a group of young people who are willing to take on the challenge of becoming charter members of a youth organization, and a sponsoring Exchange Club which is dedicated to advising and guiding the EXCEL Club to fruition.
The A.C.E. (Accepting the Challenge of Excellence) Award recognizes high school students who have made a dramatic change in their attitude and performance sometime during their high school years, and are now eligible for high school graduation. These students have often overcome great physical, emotional or social obstacles, yet few receive recognition.
This is a positive program with two key objectives. First, it helps encourage students to overcome their hardships and get back on track toward a high school diploma.
Second, the award recognized those students who are often overlooked for their accomplishments. This special recognition serves as a powerful example to all students that hard work and perseverance really do pay.
Young Citizenship Award
The purpose of the Young Citizenship Award is to find and reward those students who work hard at being good citizens at home, at school and in the community. They don’t shirk when there’s a job to be done. They cooperate with teachers and parents. They’re not necessarily at the top o their class, star athletes or musical or artistic virtuosos. Still, they’re students you would be proud to have as sons or daughters.
The Young Citizenship Award program seeks to prove to these kids that good citizenship counts – to show them that their conduct and attitude is not only notices and appreciated, but that it is also rewarded. Hopefully this kind of recognition at such an important stage in their development will encourage them to maintain a high standard of conduct as they mature and grow into adulthood.
Youth of the Month/Year Award
The National Exchange Club’s Youth of the Month program provides Exchange Clubs with the opportunity to honor outstanding students in the community who have exhibited excellence in academics and leadership. When your club becomes involved in this worthwhile program, you are joining hundreds of other clubs across the country in an effort to identify and recognize the young leaders of our nation.
This monthly program not only enhances career opportunities for those honored, it also promotes good citizenship, a desire for greater scholastic achievement and the development of well-rounded personalities to other young adults in the community. The project’s human-interest appeal generates community-wide attention.
Excel Clubs
EXCEL Clubs are groups of high school students dedicated to improving their schools, communities and country through volunteerism. As members of EXCEL Clubs serve their communities, they also develop valuable leadership and networking skills. EXCEL Club members learn by doing. The students, with the help of a school advisor, lead the club, decide on how to serve their school and community and then get actively involved in doing just that.
Each EXCEL Club is sponsored and mentored by a local Exchange Club. EXCEL Clubs may be formed in any secondary school, including public, private, parochial or vocational schools. The two basic requirements for chartering an EXCEL Club are: a group of young people who are willing to take on the challenge of becoming charter members of a youth organization, and a sponsoring Exchange Club which is dedicated to advising and guiding the EXCEL Club to fruition.