By Jack Korpob, Comcast Team, serving at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School
As a member of the Recruitment Department’s Ambassador Team or “A-Team” for short, I had the privilege of joining the Open House Crew in planning the very first corps-run Open House for 2011. My role as the Communications point required me to come up with a creative way to send the City Year message to prospective corps members who may fill our boots next year.
We decided to use the founding story of “Everybody Can Be Great,” a quotation by Martin Luther King, Jr. as the theme for the Open House. This was only fitting since our Open House occurred only two nights after MLK Day. In short, the founding story explains that service is an equalizer and that in some form, everybody can serve.
Through City Year Boston, I have met amazing people with a wealth of experiences and leadership come to serve under one common purpose: service to youth through tutoring and mentoring.
Through inspiration from MLK Jr., I decided to make a video that could feature different reasons on why we as a corps serve in City Year Boston and what brought us here.
Its great to hear from this year corps as to why they serve the schools that we are in. I’ve seen the vid like 5 times and its a favorite in my Youtube clips this month
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This is such an awesome video!!! I loved watching it
Hi I’m Jack’s friend!
I don’t know any of you in this video, but I know you’re all great & touch so many lives with your service.
Jack, fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.
This video is AMAZING! Thank you for reinspiring me with your stories and dedication to service.
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Jack! Thank you soo so much for all of your hard work in putting this together! This video truly is inspiring. Love it!
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