How important is community service to developing 21st Century skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity ?

The field trip has helped me practiced skills of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity by allowing me to work with senior citizens.I have learned how to collabrate and communicate with older people and see a bit of what they see. They need help with a lot of physical labor and can be somewhat intimidated to ask for it. Developing my creativity was how to help these people and learn something from it. I enjoyed the day I spent helping set up the Quilt show. It was a refreshing outting for myself because I didn't have to go to school and worry about academics.