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Students Show Leadership Skills at Conference
Students from Bayside, Cocoa Beach, Edgewood, and Melbourne high schools joined students from two other Central Florida counties and recently participated in the 10th annual Students in Action leadership
and marketing and using media to promote their service projects. Students also participated in two service projects that benefitted the Crosswinds Youth Services in Cocoa and Nemours Hospital
conference hosted by the Jefferson Awards Foundation. This year’s event, held at the School
inOrlando. Students donated over 1300 toys and toiletries for the service projects.
Board building
in Viera, was
designed and
facilitated by
students from
the University
of Central Florida’s LEAD Scholars Academy. This selective two year leadership program is for students committed to academic excellence and to making a difference in the world around them.
As a result they were able to make over 75 survivor bags for students in transition at
The high school students participated in a series of workshops aimed at assisting them in leading
“The students were happy and surprised with
all the new leadership skills they learned,” said MelbourneHighjunior,ShelbyBlair. “Aftertaking a personality test, the students had to create amascotrepresentingthatpersonality. These mascots were breathtaking when you saw all the different personalities at work and all of their different interpretations of what their perfect mascot for their team would be.”
an action oriented volunteer service culture in their schools while sharpening their
leadership skills. The workshops centered on teamwork, creating and measuring
impact, effective communication,
Crosswinds Youth Services as well as 25 sunshine bucket activity buckets
for sick children at Nemours Hospital.
High School students from all over Central Florida participate in the recent Jefferson Awards leadership conference.
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