By Maddie Baker
Student Council recently returned from State in Reno where they engaged in workshops from April 21 to April 24 to become better leaders. Attendees learned how to better serve the school and met other high school student council groups from all over Nevada.
The students that attended the sessions were senior school president, Rami Khalaf, juniors Kate Hirsch, Ariann Sanford, Samantha Grannantonio, Mollie Mars, Niki Hadighi, Maya Phillips, Andrew McKinney, Megan Stewart, sophomores Darlyn Magaña, Amber Montalbano, Nolan Phan, Bianca Weyers, and freshmen Amy Kang, Katie Mars, Lily Tait, and Sarah Rickards.
“I think these workshops will make me a better leader because they teach skills that are meant to improve leadership skills. I believe that these workshops taught me that even when the pressure of being a leader figure almost breaks me, I need to let it make me better,” Hirsch said.
Hadighi, Hirsch, Sanford, Grannantonio, Phillips, and Mars received individual event awards. The leadership workshops were focused on the 21 indispensable traits of a leader like team building, focus, and positive attitude.
“These workshops will affect day-to-day life because they teach valuable skills and life lessons that will further better my social and leadership skills,” Khalaf said.
StuCo won the Silver Star Award, which is the highest award that the Nevada Association of Student Councils can give. It recognizes all the hard work a student council has done throughout the year. Stuco members document all the school events they participate in and create and organize it in a scrapbook which they present to a council during the conference.
As students were getting prepared for State, the scrapbook was accidentally left in the classroom. While they were on the bus, they realized they did not have the scrapbook of all their hard work, so they banded together to get the scrapbook sent up to Reno to receive the award.
“Something I learned from a student council member from North West Career and Technical Academy was that we all have different experiences, good and bad. Those experiences make up who a person is. They don’t break you; they make you,” Weyers said.
