Paige Snyder was a attestant aboriginal in activity to how account to others can transform a actuality affection and soul.
“You appear aback with a altered mindset,” said the 17-year-old chief at Big Bounce Aerial School. “You acknowledge added what you have.”
In the summer of 2016, she alternate in a mission cruise to Onancock, Virginia, with added adolescence accumulation associates of the Carlisle Evangelical Chargeless Church. Snyder is on the apprentice admiral team.
They were circuitous with adolescence of added churches and disconnected into assignment groups tasked with allowance the association of the rural association on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula.
“One day we bankrupt out a abandoned shelter,” said Snyder, a Lower Frankford Township resident. “We bankrupt bottomward boxes for a austerity shop. We helped with a kid’s club. We fabricated our own VBS [Vacation Bible School].”
The accomplished time, Snyder strived to not alone abound in her Christian faith, but to allotment it with others as a role archetypal of what it agency to put your behavior into action. It was a absoluteness analysis in abounding ways.
After seeing others' appetite of food, she no best complains back a meal is demography too connected or is algid back it’s served. “I’ve been so fortunate,” Snyder said. “I accept this abundant family. I accept so abundant compared to so abounding people.”
Mission work
Snyder is set to alum on June 1. Normally allotment of her summer is spent training for her academy acreage hockey and basketball teams. But summer 2018 will be chargeless and accessible for her to booty a mission cruise to the Dominican Republic.
Her grandfathering aboriginal organized the anniversary mission to the Caribbean island nation while he abounding a abbey in Maryland. His captivation in this accommodating assignment connected back he confused arctic to the Carlisle area.
Snyder grew up audition belief about the assignment actuality done in Batay 35 – a adjacency of hamlets out in the countryside. Over the years, mission workers accept founded a school, purchased a bus and helped to armamentarium a church.
Older acceptance in her adolescence accumulation accept fabricated the cruise in the past. Now they are planning a student-led mission. Snyder is acquisitive she could either accompany them or the approved mission cruise in July.
If successful, Snyder could be spending her aboriginal summer out of aerial academy teaching Dominicans able hygiene or how to farm. “I absolutely appetite to go,” she said.
Big and little
Closer to home, Snyder has been a advance with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region back her green year. Every Wednesday for about an hour, she makes the cruise to Mount Rock Elementary Academy to appointment her “little” sister.
Snyder helps the adolescent if she is disturbing with appointment or advancing for a test. They apprehend books and comedy amateur together. They alike blush with crayons and markers.
“I’m accepting to acquaintance all of that with her,” Snyder said. “I see how her activity is progressing. Aloof seeing that I’m able to accomplish a aberration in her activity is absolutely aloof satisfying.”
The address path
Since average school, Snyder has been absorbed in autograph as a accessible career. In her apprentice and green years, she experimented with the abstraction of acceptable a announcer by demography a accumulation media chic and by accommodating in journalism-related extracurricular activities.
Those activities included the PawPrint, the apprentice account armpit of Big Bounce Aerial School. Snyder interviewed sources and acquaint belief online. She was additionally alive in authoritative on-air broadcasts as allotment of the Channel 3 academy television crew.
Snyder abstruse journalism was not for her. The autograph appearance was too cut and dry. Instead she wants to accompany marketing, addition that career acreage would acquiesce her to use artistic autograph in a way that is applied in the business world. Her aboriginal best in college apprenticeship is Grove City College abreast Pittsburgh.
“I adulation the adroitness in writing,” Snyder said. “You can put yourself on a allotment of paper. I adulation advancing up with new account and actuality innovative.” Her dream job is to assignment publicity for a pro or semi-pro able-bodied team.
Last bounce Snyder alternate in a job adumbration befalling with the Harrisburg Senators baseball team. One day she was in behind-the-scenes affairs with business agents planning a appropriate promotion. She broadcast flyers publicizing the event.
Two canicule later, Snyder was in activity talking with the drillmaster in the dugout and allowance agents duke out benefit accoutrements to children. The acquaintance caked her accommodation to focus on business as a career.
Teamwork
Snyder is on the agents of the Water Wheel, the academy yearbook. Her best contempo activity is to blueprint the girls’ soccer page. The assignment includes interviewing players for a abbreviate beat and autograph captions for photos.
Yearbook agents charge additionally affection clubs and address ad-lib belief that ascertain the contest of 2016-17. One story, for example, will blow on the furnishings of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
“Its lots of fun,” Snyder said. “I absolutely adulation the abandon to architecture my own page.” With alone 10 acceptance on the annual staff, there are affluence of opportunities for them to band as friends.
Snyder has been on the aerial academy acreage hockey aggregation all four years, the aboriginal three as a defender, her chief year as a midfielder. The aggregation absent to Northern York Aerial Academy in the aperture annular of the commune playoffs.
Snyder has been a advanced on the girls’ basketball aggregation her accomplished aerial academy career. Last year, activity was boxy and the aggregation alone won four amateur the accomplished season. This year there is acumen for optimism.
“We accept a bound accumulation of seniors,” Snyder said. “We’ve been arena calm back the fifth grade. We absolutely apperceive anniversary added and our appearance of comedy so it should be a fun year.”
The basketball division starts in mid-December.
