North Springs to launch community service blitz

The entire student body at North Springs Charter High School, more than 1,300 students, will turn Wednesday’s half-day into a community service blitz.

Members of sports teams at the Sandy Springs school will play cards with folks at a nursing home. About 100 students will make sandwiches for a downtown homeless shelter. Others will write letters to military service members and refurbish the school’s outdoor classroom. Cheerleaders will paint the stadium.

Students will work through their clubs and athletic teams in the 28-project event called “Clubs in the Community,” said Chris O’Connell, a senior who spearheaded the effort with senior Bethany Larkin. The pair are copresidents of North Springs’ Student Leadership Association.

“The students are excited because this will show the local community that students here kind of break the mold of how high school students are represented in the media,” O’Connell said. “We care.”

The service project was partly an effort to bring the many clubs and teams together, he said.

Every student at North Springs is expected to be a member of two clubs or two sports teams, according to O’Connell. The few who aren’t in any group — less than 100 students, he said — will volunteer together in a “No Club Club.”