Guide to CAS and Bright Futures Volunteer Hours

This guide is for student-athletes on the HHS Rowing Team. Whether you’re an IB, traditional, or homeschooled student, you may be eligible to earn volunteer hours through rowing activities.

This guide provides examples of how the student-athlete earns hours and how to track hours. Always check with your school counselor or IB Coordinator to ensure your hours are eligible in case there are policy changes that HHSRC may not be aware of.

Creative Hours
CREATIVE HOURS
Look for creative opportunities throughout the year. Some examples include:
• Baking for the Team
• Bake individually wrapped goods (like cookies or brownies) for team events.
• You must take and submit pictures of the baking process to receive credit.
• Creating Posters
• Banquet Slide Show: Work within a small team to assemble photos and videos to create a team slideshow for the end-of-year banquet.
Action Hours
ACTION HOURS
• Practice Hours: Every practice you attend counts as action hours, just show up and participate! The only exception: if you're only washing boats on a water day, that time does not count as action.
Service Hours
SERVICE HOURS
You can earn service hours for volunteering in these ways.
• Traveling to and from out-of-town regattas
• Washing boats and equipment after your water practice or after regattas
• Look for sign-ups throughout the season to volunteer for the following:
• Learn to Row camps
• Team fundraisers
• Spaghetti dinner crew table
• IB Team Building Day (before school starts in August)

Logging and Reporting Volunteer Hours

 

🕒 How to Log Hours

Keep a daily record of your volunteer hours using a spreadsheet or a printable calendar (like the free templates from CalendarsThatWork.com).

Your log should include:

  • Date

  • Description of activity

  • Length of activity (in hours/minutes)

📤 How to Report Hours
  • IB Student-Athletes:
    Use ManageBac to track and submit all CAS activities.

  • Traditional and Homeschooled Student-Athletes:
    Use the Bright Futures volunteer tracking system. Check with your school counselor for the correct forms and submission process.

When submitting hours, include the following supervisor contact:

Crew Log Example