Junior Council

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It's junior year. There’s no sponsor, no class, and no council. In tenth grade we didn’t elect new officers for junior year, so as a former officer of student council I took on this responsibility in creating Junior Council. This new experienced helped me understand what it is like to be a leader and to seek out help from others, such as my fellow peers outside of my social group. I needed to start from scratch, but this time it would be different. When going from ninth grade to tenth grade we already had a sponsor set for us, so the search for a sponsor of Junior council was difficult. Most of the teachers were involved with other activities and the others didn’t have much experience so were less inclined to take on the position because major decisions involving senior activities will be made such as Senior Dinner and Prom. With the help of my fellow classmates we were able to find a sponsor for the fall semester. The next step was then to create a constitution to make Junior Council official and encourage students to get involved. Since we found our sponsor late, we weren’t able to sign up for club rush and have a booth. However, this didn’t discourage me because even though I didn’t have a …show more content…

We still haven’t elected our officers so I continued to lead the club by presenting the meetings and taking charge of homecoming and spirit week. I acted as the spokesperson of the group and the person who tried to get the members involved in presenting ideas. I wanted to make sure that my fellow peers were welcome since Junior Council is a club welcomed to any Junior who wanted to make an impact. So when choosing our homecoming theme, we all had a vote. Even though about ten students helped in creating the decorations including myself I still tried to work with my fellow peers in trying to get them involved to help

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