Hi everyone,
My daughter joined TBC in her freshman year and she is currently a senior in high school and being an officer for this organization is one of the best activities she has done in these four years. We put her in the elementary band program in middle school and wanted her to stay involved in a music-related activity outside of school and encouraged her to apply to the organization. She started off in an entry-level position as a finance officer in her freshman year and the great thing about TBC is that they accept everyone as an officer. I think this is a great model because it encourages kids and gives them the opportunity to show everyone what they are capable of. Once she joined in finance, she was very motivated to contribute as much as possible and I remember her doing a lot of work that year. TBC gives students the opportunity to get involved in lots of activities that many other kids will not get to do, like writing grants and running fundraisers for more than 200 people which forces them to develop the critical leadership skills that jobs are looking for much earlier than others. She quickly rose through the positions and became head of the finance department in her freshman year itself and was leading close to 10 officers and running all these events herself. Whenever I attended her events and watched her progress, I was really impressed. Every event, she was becoming a better leader by learning from her mistakes. She is now leading the auxiliary department which has programs for middle, high school, and college kids, and I am very happy to see how far she has come. I love that TBC gives kids the space to explore, make mistakes, and most importantly, learn from them and become better leaders as a result. TBC has helped my daughter a lot and she now holds leadership positions in other clubs as well and she tells me how she is applying things she learned from TBC very early on to effectively lead her officers elsewhere. I think TBC is a very unique opportunity to get involved in really big programs and is perfect for high-achieving kids.
