Service Work - Nova Classical Academy

Student Volunteering

Nova’s Vision Statement

We believe that classical education at Nova will allow us to graduate a young adult who is a rational thinker, self-motivated learner, and demonstrated him/herself to be a person of character.

As such, we hope to graduate engaged students who are involved in their communities. This is why Nova’s graduation requirements include not just class requirements and credit expectations, but service hours as well. Students in the School of Rhetoric are required to have 80 volunteer hours. 40 of those hours can be volunteering at Nova. Receiving any monetary form of compensation will not meet the required hours.

Student Volunteer Participation Form

“It’s like belonging to a family of intellectuals. It seems more like a family than class.”

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Leadership/Volunteer Opportunities

Get Recognized for your Volunteer Service!

Prudential Spirit of Community Award
Potential to win $1000 or more, engraved medallion, all expensive paid trip to Washington, DC.

Where are some places Nova students have volunteered?

Area Churches
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, U of M
Clubhouse Cookies
Dakota County Libraries
Elder Care Rights Alliance
Friends of the Mississippi River
Inner City Tennis
Jewish Community Center
MN United
Neighborhood House
Nova Classical Academy
Second Harvest Heartland
St. Paul Public Libraries
Star Swim Team
Studio Mystique
Wellington Senior Home
YMCA Camp Widjiwagan

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank