Park's competitive scholarships include admission to our Honors Academy. In 300-600 words, respond in your own voice and words to this year's essay question: Optimal personal development of Service, Leadership, and Scholarship (the foci of Park's Honors Academy) requires one to consider ideas and methods that are unfamiliar. Those ideas might be innovative or ancient, universal or niche, proven or experimental. Describe a time in your life that you have learned and applied a ‘new to you’ idea in order to serve, lead or learn well. Be specific in describing your experience and its implications for your future endeavors.