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It began when I was in North Wales Elementary School.\u00a0 Thousands of juice bags were thrown away daily.\u00a0 This inspired me to research and find a company willing to recycle if I collected them.\u00a0 My gifted teacher helped get permission from the school.\u00a0 Making collection bins with friends for the cafeteria and teacher lunch rooms, along with many posters to hang was the easy part.\u00a0 Teaching, encouraging and supporting my peers to keep our planet clean was the hard part.\u00a0 We were exceptionally successful.\u00a0 Leaning leadership at a young age impelled me to help the program remain.\u00a0 it is in place to this day.<\/p>\n
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The outcome of that project motivated me to research topics which inspired me to absorb information and share it.\u00a0 Future collaborations helped me and my Kinex team win a bridge building competition; i was able to get my community center to start the chess club; my church to create a giving tree where together hard enough to repeatedly win the District First Aid trophy.\u00a0 Individuals working together always accomplish a greater goal!\u00a0 We expand community by example.\u00a0 These accomplishments taught me perseverance, communication, and the confidence to connect with others.<\/p>\n
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In 9th grade I was diagnosed with a life threatening inoperable malignant brain tumor.\u00a0 At fourteen you don’t think anything will happen to you.\u00a0 Inpatient at CHOP I met many nurses, doctors, therapists, and social workers.\u00a0 It was the biggest collaboration of educated, learned minds I had witnessed.\u00a0 I was part of that team. explaining it all to me in conversations and including me in decision making.\u00a0 My best weapon was myself, becoming an informed fighter to obtain survivorship.\u00a0 I was amazed with each doctor’s expertise yet their knowledge was more powerful when united.\u00a0 Positivity through treatments, hope for good news after tests, smiling in adversity became my new normal.\u00a0 I learned bravery.<\/p>\n
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I told my parents I wanted to host a blood drive and the entire town showed up.\u00a0 We had to add a second collection day.\u00a0 My classmates wanted to help so I designed & sold TEAM RYAN wristbands to raise money for childhood cancer.\u00a0 A drone flew overhead capturing the entire school population with arms raised wearing the bland and signs that said, “No one fights Alone.”\u00a0 Watching this video in the hospital, tears fell as I realized the time I had given to friends, family,and community was returned to me in my darkest hour.\u00a0 Luckily I achieved remission and post treatment recruited many to join TEAM RYAN for CHOP’s Parkway fundraising walk.\u00a0 We have raised $20,000 for childhood cancer over the past several years.\u00a0 My community and I, 300 strong raising funds donated to children fighting cancer taught me usefulness and trust.\u00a0 The experiences I have had taught me to have integrity.\u00a0 Giving back is its own reward!<\/p>\n
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~~Ryan Matthew Naulty<\/p>\n
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