School hosts KSHSAA Regional Student Council Conference
32 schools attend regional StuCo meeting at the school on Tuesday, Sept. 22
September 23, 2015
StuCo hosted the annual KSHSAA Regional Student Council Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 22.
A total of 32 schools and 500 students attended. The conference is a way StuCo representatives and leaders from schools around the area can come together and share ideas on how to improve their school through spirit and tradition.
Hosting the conference came with challenges because homecoming was the previous week. StuCo sponsor Jessica DeWild described the complications in preparing for the big event.
“[StuCo] was in a time crunch because of homecoming last week,” DeWild said. “We didn’t have as much time to prepare.”
Despite the struggles, StuCo was able to pull off a successful conference. The day started off with the Mill Valley StuCo greeting the other schools and leading them into the gym where they heard from some speakers. One of the speakers at the conference was a former NFL cheerleader who talked about leadership and developing ideas. Junior student body vice president Brady Rolig enjoyed the speaker.
“The speaker was fun and interactive,” Rolig said. “She talked about dreaming, mapping, and putting ideas into action.”
DeWild believes the conference not only helped the schools gain new ideas, but that it also taught the StuCo members important skills.
“Since the Mill Valley StuCo members were group leaders, they learned communication skills and how to develop their leadership skills,” DeWild said.
One of the most popular aspects of the conference was the breakout time in which students were able to split up into groups, lead by a Mill Valley StuCo member, and discuss each school’s ideas.
“[StuCo] enjoyed the breakout time because they could interact and chat about what works and doesn’t work,” DeWild said. “They discovered a lot of good ideas for events to try at Mill Valley.”
Junior class representative Melissa Kelley was able to gather useful information out of the conference and is ready to apply new ideas to the school year.
“[StuCo] has so many great and new ideas,” Kelley said. “We just have to decide which ones are important enough to use throughout the school year.”
