text: One of the benefits that you can get from participating in extracurricular activities is that you can develop important life skills for the future. This means that you can nurture skills including leadership, public speaking, and many more! For example, if you join the student council, then you can develop leadership because you are the one making some of the school's decisions. You can also get much better at public speaking, if you join a student council, because if you want to present your ideas to change and benefit the school, then you need to be speaking to administrators and faculty of the school. These skills are very important in the future because companies will be searching for people with good leadership and public speaking. Anyone can have good grades and go to good colleges, but they might not have those skills that are so important, but if you have those skills, then the companies will more likely select you over the people with just good grades. Also, if you join a sports team, then you can develop better teamwork which is also a very crucial skill for future job opportunities. Participating in extracurricular activities can help you develop very important skills, that can benefit you in many ways in the future with important things such as jobs and colleges.