Our speaker was Amber Parr, who is the knight who presents the awards the Hart Elementary school students as part of the Early Act First Knight program. She encouraged us to come see one of the events. The EAFK program is 20 years old and was started in 1990s by her husband. He noticed that children needed to be taught ethics and started a program to do that. When Rotary later became involved, the program morphed into EAFK. Teaching children ethics at an early age is needed now more than ever. Amber gave us examples of how the program has helped children and turned them around to become better students. The students at EAFK schools want to earn one of the medals and this incentive can turn their attitude around. The medals and curriculum are based upon character traits such as acceptance, self-respect, compassion, kindness and honesty. Hart Elementary, which we support, is a model for the program – the kids are engaged and attentive and scream the 4-way test at the assemblies where Amber presents the awards. The EAFK program has been around so long that Amber has met adults that were knighted as children and now have children that are being knighted. Amber talked about always wanting to be helpful. EAFK is that type of program – it rewards children for being good and gives parents and teachers tools to help their children succeed. The program helps reduce discipline issues in schools, by giving children positive attention instead of negative attention. Amber thanked us for our support of the program, which helps buy the curriculum the teachers use, and again encouraged us to attend an assembly. At the end of her presentation, Amber “knighted” President Miriam.