In my early schooling I feel like I received a citizenship education by way of food drives, holiday gift donations and playground clean up. This is in line with developing a personally responsible citizen in myself and my classmates. Once I was in high school the direction in my education as a citizen shifted. I was involved in clubs and organizations that aligned opportunities for me in developing an involved participatory citizenship for my growth. I along with my peers and teachers would help plan fundraisers and awareness, an example would be a combination of clubs in December. All the high school organization dedicated leads to head a large committee to organize a grand scale drive. This time the students planned, initiated, organized everything for a massive benefit and supports to communities in need near and far. I feel that in my education I was able to develop citizenship by being exposed to more hands-on learning experiences. In high school specifically, we were able to learn about topics that had an impact on our community and in our world. We also elevated our learning about the topics and looked into what we could do to help alleviate the problems that were occurring. I believe it is important to try to teach citizenship to our students, and to get students invested and participating on tasks that will impact them and their world directly. Once someone is invested, it really can high light passion, desires, and knowledge to better this place we all call home.