What sort of ideas, projects or initiatives do you have for next year? What is your main goal?
“For events, I would like to have a cookout, an ice skating social, possibly a picnic on Jackman, a video game contest, and just a bunch of food socials, especially ones like the fried chicken social, which did really well this year. For bills, I’m on a recycling bill where I want to encourage recycling for environmental consciousness by having a contest where we see who can make the best recycled things, and whoever can make the coolest one gets a prize. Another idea I have for bills is trying to make replacement IDs only $10 instead of $20 and having accommodations for academic-related clubs. In Student Council, only the elected officers can propose bills, but I was thinking, ‘What if students were able to go to Student Council meetings and introduce their own bills?’”
What experiences and skills make you qualified for this position?
“I was the vice president of my class in eighth grade, and I am the president of the ninth grade right now, so I think in this first year, getting used to all the bills and getting used to planning events it took a while, so the fact that I already have this experience makes me ahead already, and I have the knowledge of what is possible and what is impossible. I know what the budget is and the best way to divide up the budget. This year the budget was only supposed to be for four events, but I managed to make it for six events.”
How do you plan on being the middleman at the intersection of high school students, faculty and administration?
“I take a lot of perspectives from the students, so I would personally go and talk to students and ask them, ‘OK, what do you want?’ I would have a bunch of methods for students to reach out to me, whether it be in person or through forms, and then from there, I would create bills. Then I can take those bills and take the next step of talking to administration and faculty to review bills and discover their possibilities. And I would collect that information and pass it back to students.”
