Community Service Hours vs Volunteer Hours

Volunteer Service
is defined as assisting where needed and does not necessarily address a social issue.  Although these hours are not recorded on the transcript, students can keep a log of these activities for use when applying for college, job applications, awards and scholarships other than the Bright Futures. 

Community Service
is defined as identifying and helping with a social issue in the community.  This requires students to look beyond themselves and reach out to an issue faced by our society (i.e. poverty, abuse, elderly citizen rights).  These hours will meet the requirement for the Florida Academic Scholars, Florida Medallion Scholars or Gold Seal Vocational scholarships.  The completed hours will be recorded on the student’s transcript.

Both are very important,  but only community service hours can be used for Bright Futures.