Project Helping Kynd Kits

With a juris doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Jacob Scholl has experience as a legal extern with several Colorado law offices. Jacob Scholl enjoys volunteering in his free time, including helping high school seniors understand how law school works and participating as a Kynd Leader with Project Hel  ping. There, he volunteers monthly in events throughout Denver.

Founded by Justin Kruger, Project Helping is a volunteering-based organization dedicated to leveraging the mental wellness benefits of volunteering in impactful ways. To achieve its mission, Project Helping partners with charitable groups and organizes meaningful events that impact the lives of volunteers and the community.

Currently, there are over 5,000 volunteers with Project Helping, which hosts more than 700 experiences each year. Among the several opportunities that Project Helping offers for volunteers are the Kynd Kits. Through them, people can volunteer by receiving projects and “acts of kyndness” in their homes and use them to help others.

An example of a Kynd Kit is the cold care kit for those who are homeless, which includes socks and winter gloves, as well as hand warmers, tissues, lotion, and other useful items. The Project Helping literacy kit for first-grade students includes crayons, stickers, sight word flashcards, and index cards for children who need help learning how to read.

What Is a Project Helping Kynd Leader?

While completing his JD at the Sturm College of Law, Jacob Scholl served as a legal extern for several public and private law offices, including the Federal Public Defender of the District of Colorado and the Hinton Law Office. Alongside his work in the legal field, Jacob Scholl devotes much of his time to volunteering. He is a Kynd Leader for the Denver-based nonprofit Project Helping.

Since its founding, Project Helping has connected more than 9,000 volunteers to impactful volunteer opportunities across the city. The organization operates on a principle known as “kyndfulness,” which encourages gratitude, connection with others, and intentional action to promote mental health and wellness.

Kynd Leaders are volunteers who embody Project Helping’s definition of kyndfulness through their work in the community. Kynd Leaders commit to leading at least one volunteer session per month, and supervise the work of a team of volunteers. In addition to serving as an ambassador for Project Helping, Kynd Leaders also document volunteer activities by taking photos and writing event summaries. These reports are used by the organization to share their work on their website and other outlets.

 

About American Mensa

Jacob Scholl is on track in his pursuit of a career as a criminal defense lawyer after earning his juris doctor from the University of Denver‘s Sturm College of Law. Besides scoring 770/800 in math in SAT, receiving various scholarship grants, and graduating magna cum laude in college, Jacob Scholl is also a member of the American Mensa.

American Mensa is under the Mensa International, Ltd., an organization of highly intelligent people or those who are scored in the top 2 percent in any of the 200 recognized standardized intelligence tests and the Mensa admission test.

Only 50,000 of the six million Americans who are eligible for membership in American Mensa are actual members. They come from different walks of life, practice in, and represent various industries. The members of American Mensa represent different demographics, with ages ranging from 2 to 106 years old.

American Mensa was established to identify and foster human intelligence. The organization supports research efforts that study the nature, characteristics, and uses of human intelligence. Members of American Mensa enjoy activities wherein they interact with each other for intellectual and social stimulation. American Mensa has designed special interest groups to facilitate the meetings of like-minded members. Regional and national events provide opportunities for Mesans across the globe to meet and interact with each other.

Reasons to Join an Honor Society

Colorado resident Jacob Scholl recently graduated from the University of Denver Strum College of Law. Before earning his law degree, Jacob Scholl was a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society.

Joining an honor society has several benefits outside of the prestige of belonging to a group of people who are serious about their school work. Above all, honor societies provide students-members an outlet to network. Honor societies also assist students with finding a means for supporting themselves in school. Organizations like Golden Key can provide educational scholarships and grants that will allow students to accomplish activities within the scope of academics.

Honor societies can also be a platform for internships and jobs. Through their partnerships with other organizations, members have the employment opportunity, which can boost their resumes. These clubs also ask members to take an active role that involves participation in activities and taking on leadership roles. This participation cannot only look good on a resume but it also can build valuable professional skills.

 

Sturm College of Law Equips Students with Skills for Success

Jacob Scholl received his BS in international sports administration and agency law from Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he was a member of the Student Trial Lawyers Association. An aspiring criminal defense attorney, Jacob Scholl recently received his JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Sturm upholds a commitment to imparting the real-world skills that students will need to succeed in their profession. In addition to classroom instruction, students gain practical experience through externships, live-client clinics, and legal simulation courses. Sturm is the only law school in the United States that offers as many as three practical skills programs - legal writing, clinical training, and trial advocacy, which are all ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report.

In addition to a traditional JD program, Sturm offers a part-time JD program and several options for LLM and other master’s degrees. Thanks to its comprehensive, high-quality training, its graduates are highly sought by employers. In 2017, more than 93 percent of program graduates secured professional positions within 10 months of leaving school. 

Modern Woodworking Tools

Jacob Scholl is a law student, bodybuilder, and painter with a degree in international sports administration and agency law from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Outside of his studies, Jacob Scholl is a passionate and experienced woodworker with specific interests in handcrafting the scales of Justice as decorative chandeliers.

Woodworking is the pursuit of crafting items from wood. It can be further categorized into carpentry, woodcarving, woodturning, making furniture and joinery. The evolution of civilization shows the development of the skills involved with woodwork. Several traditional woodworking tools include saws, axes, bow drills, chisels, and knives. However, with the development of modern technology, the woodworking trade has changed.

The use of power tools, wood routers, and Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) machines has revolutionized the industry. These machines carve exquisitely intricate patterns, craft products faster, and mass-fabricate with little waste. Besides, power tools speed up the handcrafting process with less energy compared to traditional carving tools.

For instance, the wood router carves complex and in-depth shapes on wood compared to traditional methods that require extensive experience and skill. However, art buyers and collectors value handcrafted woodworks, and they fetch higher prices. 

MENSA Gathers the Brightest Individuals in the World

Jacob Scholl is a final year student at the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. With a class rank of 90 percent, he had previously graduated magna cum laude from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Jacob Scholl belongs to many associations, including MENSA, where he has been a member since 2018.

MENSA is an international non-profit organization for people whose intelligent quotient has been proven in standardized intelligence testing to be among the most intelligent two percent of the population. This organization started in Britain in 1946, has more than 140,000 members from 100 countries in 51 national groups and MENSA International. Some of these national groups are divided into local groups.

MENSA members are very diverse in their socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. They meet regularly in their local groups and annually at regional, national, and international levels to engage in intellectual activities like lectures, discussions and games, and social plus cultural events. There are also meetings for members of special interest groups, which could be at any level.

MENSA conducts and cooperates with other organizations on intelligence and intellectual-related matters through the MENSA Foundation. The organization undertakes various research, the results of which are published in the MENSA Research Journal. The MENSA Foundation also awards college scholarships to student members.

Project Helping - Building Mental Resiliency Through Kyndfulness

Jacob Scholl is a University of Denver law student who plans to enter the field of criminal defense practice after he earns his juris doctor. Community involved, Jacob Scholl volunteers with Project Helping as a Kynd Leader. This ambassador position helps ensure fun and meaningful events with a nonprofit that provides motivational support to those living with brain conditions.

With 20 percent of Americans living with mental health obstacles, a majority of people facing such challenges do not receive the help they need. This is one major factor in suicide being the country’s second most prevalent cause of death among those in the 10 to 39 age range.

The reason why many face mental challenges alone is not simply because of a lack of social services. Rather, people feel ashamed or afraid to appear weak and ask for assistance. Project Helping aims to break through this barrier and change this dynamic through a vision of nonjudgemental “kyndfulness.” This encompasses humility, gratitude, faith, and intentional acts that better others’ lives.

Some of the Project Helping initiatives include the Emily's Light program for moms, the Kind Club for kids, and Kynd U, which focuses on mental resilience and suicide prevention among teens.

Volunteering Through Project Helping

Outside of being a law student at Denver University's Sturm College of Law, Jacob Scholl's interests include volunteering. As a Kynd leader for Project Helping, Jacob Scholl organizes the monthly activity calendar.

Project Helping is an organization that supports volunteers through coordinating events. It aims to help volunteers improve their communities. The organization’s impact can be seen in the more than 592,000 lives that have been transformed.

The organization’s platform is simple, established to contribute to mental wellness through acts of kindness and gratitude. The organization provides people with several opportunities to contribute to the volunteering community. Kynd Leaders, for example, work closely with volunteers to make sure that events run smoothly.

Other duties that Kynd Leaders perform include being present at events to greet community members. In addition to volunteering, Leaders are the point-of-contact person. They help volunteers answer any questions and take pictures and videos of the event.

The events last between two and four hours on a regularly scheduled day (i.e. third Sunday of every month). Leaders are only required to head one event a month comprised of between five and 15 volunteers.

Who is Gerry Spence?

Former chief marketing officer and chief operations manager of ComposiGlass, LLC Jacob Scholl is finishing his Juris Doctor degree at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado. Jacob Scholl also plans is to attend the Trial Lawyers College (TLC) in Wyoming after graduation.

TLC was established to educate and train lawyers and judges in obtaining justice for individuals, especially those who are challenged by corporate and government oppression. TLC is especially focused on defending the rights of “the poor, the injured, the forgotten, the voiceless, the defenseless, and the damned.”

TLC was founded by the famed trial attorney Gerry Spence, who is known throughout the country for his courtroom victories. Since 1969, Spence has not lost a single civil or criminal case. He has won for his clients' multi-million dollar verdicts. Among his most celebrated courtroom victories include the Karen Silkwood case, the Randy Weaver defense, the Imelda Marcos defense, the Miss Wyoming Kim Pring defense against Penthouse Magazine, and the Ed Cantrell and Sandy Jones defenses.

To share what he has learned throughout his career as a trial lawyer, Spence created a revolutionary method for training trial lawyers and judges at TLC. Spence and his volunteer staff at TLC impart important methods and skills to trial attorneys for the defense of people. TLC has particular training program for lawyers in defeating the death penalty.

Spence has received various recognitions throughout his lifetime. He has also authored a total of 19 published books. Although he is already in the 70’s, Spence never retired and continues to do what he loves to do.