Waddling across the pool, sophomore Kara Parrett came up to an eleven-year-old boy who was off to the side among the dozens of kids. The boy, Alec, wasn’t talking to the others like she would normally expect — he had a hearing impairment and was nervous to talk to the other kids at summer camp. Kara was working as an Associate Counselor in Training at H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation — a Boy Scouts of America camp. Teaching Alec individually during the class, she immediately saw him start to open up as she spent time just talking with him. He was a great swimmer who just needed a little help, according to Kara. “He just wasn’t sure who to be comfortable with yet and getting him comfortable with me, he was able to do the entire swim test in a day,” Kara said. “Just doing a little bit of one-on-one, you can see such an impact.” Spending the summer as a scout counselor, an unpaid position, Kara served as a role model for all the boys and girls at the pool and was happy to do it. To re...