Service Learning Requirements

A. Apply for the program with the Service Learning Coordinator no later than February 1 of 10th grade.  New to Woodward 11th grade students must immediately apply to the program upon enrolling to see if meeting all the requirements would be possible to fulfill.
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B. Complete at least one of two service learning courses and earn a B or higher average or a pre-approved four-week summer internship with a community partner organization.  Service Learning courses include:  

1. Service Learning: Horizons
2. Service Learning: Ethical Global Engagement
3. Helping Hands Maymester Course 

Internship opportunities include:

1. Youth Leadership Summit with the Atlanta Community Food Bank 
2. Internship with another partner organization where the student puts in 40 hours of work, such as Love Beyond, Walls, Furnish with Love, the WA Grows garden program, Habitat for Humanity, etc. 

C. Complete four semester credits of the following courses and achieve a B or higher average in the four courses. (NOTE: Students who enroll in full-year courses will receive 2 credits per course)

1. Personal Finance 
2. Debate, Intermediate Debate, Advanced Debate (only two semesters can count toward the four)
3. Cybersecurity
4. Artificial Intelligence 
5. Environmental Science or AP Environmental Science (up to two semesters can count toward the four)
6. Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making 1 and/or 2 
7. Journalism I
8. Topics in Multicultural/Ethics, and Diversity Studies
9. Global Integrated Science (summer semester offering; maximum of one semester; not offered every summer.

D. Complete 160 service learning hours through WA Serves and the Service Learning program by Spring Break of senior year. Students must engage with at least six (6) of the listed ten (10) organizations in their junior and senior years and cannot earn more than 60 of the required service hours with any one organization. This list may change yearly as WA Service Projects change.

1. Blessings in a Backpack
2. Canned Food Drive
3. College Park Healthcare Senior Center
4. Habitat for Humanity
5. Horizons Atlanta
6. Jesse Draper Boys and Girls Club
7. Love Beyond Walls
8. Terranova Education
9. The Main Street Academy Tutoring
10. WA Grows

E. Capstone Project: Students will be assigned a Service Learning mentor to design, implement, and create a Service Learning experience highlighting one local or global disparity, inequity, or need. Upon completion, senior students will write a reflection paper and create a capstone project that will be presented to and reviewed by a panel of Service Learning coordinators and faculty sponsors no later than Spring Break of senior year.