Jr. Firefighter Piece
If you are interested in Tyler Scott’s story about becoming a volunteer firefighter, here’s what you need to know and do in order to be a successful junior or volunteer firefighter.
In order to be a junior firefighter you have some restrictions and rules. Generally, you can’t do any major tasks for your department. This includes driving trucks, going in to any burning structures, and using electrical equipment. Plus to be a junior firefighter you must be 16 years old. While this sounds as if you don’t get any of the action, you very much do! Junior firefighters are able to get involved by using fire pumps, going on ride alongs, helping with structures once they are cleared, and helping with some search and rescue situations.
If you are looking to continue only partially after high school you may become a volunteer firefighter. In order to be a volunteer firefighter you have to be 18 years old and ready to commit. The process to becoming a volunteer firefighter includes an 110 hour NFPA-Certified course. These volunteer positions can help you land jobs inside a fire department by giving you background knowledge, hands-on experience, and just really shows you what a firefighter does.
If you have any questions or want to know more go to www.volunteerfd.org or www.ncdoi.com
Key Club Piece
The Key Club focuses on volunteering, but why volunteering is important?
Volunteering is important because of the way it can impact a community, a family, or a person. You can make a huge difference in lives. Places in our own community where you can go to help out would be brother wolf Animal Shelter, MANNA Food Bank, and Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Administrative offices.
When volunteering with Brother Wolf you get to walk, feed, and play with animals. Also, after being part of the volunteer staff for a given amount of time you can sign up to foster animals. Which means you can take those cute and snuggly animals home until they find a permanent one.
With MANNA you sign up for volunteer shifts where normally you sort packaged goods in order to make their MANNA PACKS, which is packs of food they make to help out families in need.
With the Habitat with Humanity you either sort through donated products, help with construction, or help assist families. This organization can get you involved even more than just Asheville, you can sign up to travel to other countries and assist there.
To volunteer with these programs use these websites:
www.bwar.org
www.mannafoodbank.org
www.ashevillehabitat.org
If you are interested in Tyler Scott’s story about becoming a volunteer firefighter, here’s what you need to know and do in order to be a successful junior or volunteer firefighter.
In order to be a junior firefighter you have some restrictions and rules. Generally, you can’t do any major tasks for your department. This includes driving trucks, going in to any burning structures, and using electrical equipment. Plus to be a junior firefighter you must be 16 years old. While this sounds as if you don’t get any of the action, you very much do! Junior firefighters are able to get involved by using fire pumps, going on ride alongs, helping with structures once they are cleared, and helping with some search and rescue situations.
If you are looking to continue only partially after high school you may become a volunteer firefighter. In order to be a volunteer firefighter you have to be 18 years old and ready to commit. The process to becoming a volunteer firefighter includes an 110 hour NFPA-Certified course. These volunteer positions can help you land jobs inside a fire department by giving you background knowledge, hands-on experience, and just really shows you what a firefighter does.
If you have any questions or want to know more go to www.volunteerfd.org or www.ncdoi.com
Key Club Piece
The Key Club focuses on volunteering, but why volunteering is important?
Volunteering is important because of the way it can impact a community, a family, or a person. You can make a huge difference in lives. Places in our own community where you can go to help out would be brother wolf Animal Shelter, MANNA Food Bank, and Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Administrative offices.
When volunteering with Brother Wolf you get to walk, feed, and play with animals. Also, after being part of the volunteer staff for a given amount of time you can sign up to foster animals. Which means you can take those cute and snuggly animals home until they find a permanent one.
With MANNA you sign up for volunteer shifts where normally you sort packaged goods in order to make their MANNA PACKS, which is packs of food they make to help out families in need.
With the Habitat with Humanity you either sort through donated products, help with construction, or help assist families. This organization can get you involved even more than just Asheville, you can sign up to travel to other countries and assist there.
To volunteer with these programs use these websites:
www.bwar.org
www.mannafoodbank.org
www.ashevillehabitat.org
Debate
Although many see the debate club at Reynolds as an opportunity to exercise techniques of argument formation and public speaking, debate in itself is a rich art with history dating back to Ancient Greek society.
Debate started, primarily, as discussions of philosophy and politics within Ancient Greek society. For the most part debate was not organized; however, it was relatively formal, with opposing parties in public forums or spaces using argumentation to win the crowd over towards their side. Debate was often used amongst philosophers who had opposing ideas on certain concepts, and with politicians who were running for public office, much like today.
Conceptual structures called “Debating Societies” emerged in London in the early eighteenth century. These often existed at certain academic institutions where the art of debate was practiced, and largely developed. Debates would exist in a public forum setting, well organized debating events would be held in public institutions, like a university for example. There would be a curator who would officiate the debate; speakers were given a set amount of time to propose their arguments, slander and insulation was not permitted during the debate. Following the debate a vote was taken to determine the winning side, or put the debate up for further discussion.
As years led on into the modern age, debating largely became an academic practice. Debate teams were formed by various universities and even high schools where the art of argumentation, persuasion, and public speaking would be honed in as an academic and intellectual practice. Large competitions would soon become common into the mid twentieth century, and academic debate became what we know it as today.
For more information go here:
https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/history-debates
Ultimate Frisbee
Ultimate frisbee is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc. The game was developed in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ. Points are scored when either team catch the frisbee within their designated “In-Zone.” Each point begins on the in-zone of the defending team. The defending team will throw the disc to the offending team to start off a point. The offending team then must advance the disc into their in-zone by passing. Once a disc has been caught by any player, they cannot move with the disc, they must stop where they caught the disc. The defending team cannot be closer than 3 meters to the player holding the disc once it is caught. The defending player closest to the offending player possessing a disc, called the “Marker”, can create a turnover by counting to ten. If the offending player with the disc has not thrown the disc before the marker counts to ten then the defending team will receive possession of the disc, called a “turnover.” Ultimate Frisbee is often played with teams of 7, but being an informal sport, can be played with as many or as little players as the teams decide. The game often is played to a set point, usually 15 or 18, the first team to reach this point wins the game.
For more information go here:
http://www.whatisultimate.com/what-is-ultimate/the-rules/
Although many see the debate club at Reynolds as an opportunity to exercise techniques of argument formation and public speaking, debate in itself is a rich art with history dating back to Ancient Greek society.
Debate started, primarily, as discussions of philosophy and politics within Ancient Greek society. For the most part debate was not organized; however, it was relatively formal, with opposing parties in public forums or spaces using argumentation to win the crowd over towards their side. Debate was often used amongst philosophers who had opposing ideas on certain concepts, and with politicians who were running for public office, much like today.
Conceptual structures called “Debating Societies” emerged in London in the early eighteenth century. These often existed at certain academic institutions where the art of debate was practiced, and largely developed. Debates would exist in a public forum setting, well organized debating events would be held in public institutions, like a university for example. There would be a curator who would officiate the debate; speakers were given a set amount of time to propose their arguments, slander and insulation was not permitted during the debate. Following the debate a vote was taken to determine the winning side, or put the debate up for further discussion.
As years led on into the modern age, debating largely became an academic practice. Debate teams were formed by various universities and even high schools where the art of argumentation, persuasion, and public speaking would be honed in as an academic and intellectual practice. Large competitions would soon become common into the mid twentieth century, and academic debate became what we know it as today.
For more information go here:
https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/history-debates
Ultimate Frisbee
Ultimate frisbee is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc. The game was developed in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ. Points are scored when either team catch the frisbee within their designated “In-Zone.” Each point begins on the in-zone of the defending team. The defending team will throw the disc to the offending team to start off a point. The offending team then must advance the disc into their in-zone by passing. Once a disc has been caught by any player, they cannot move with the disc, they must stop where they caught the disc. The defending team cannot be closer than 3 meters to the player holding the disc once it is caught. The defending player closest to the offending player possessing a disc, called the “Marker”, can create a turnover by counting to ten. If the offending player with the disc has not thrown the disc before the marker counts to ten then the defending team will receive possession of the disc, called a “turnover.” Ultimate Frisbee is often played with teams of 7, but being an informal sport, can be played with as many or as little players as the teams decide. The game often is played to a set point, usually 15 or 18, the first team to reach this point wins the game.
For more information go here:
http://www.whatisultimate.com/what-is-ultimate/the-rules/
