Students from throughout the Holy Trinity School Division joined Vanier students at their Horizons Leadership Conference, organized by the Vanier Student Representative Council.
The conference brought two keynote speakers — Nick Foley, founder of Move for Inclusion non-profit and author of Celebrate the Hero, and Siera Bearchell, the first Saskatchewanian to represent Canada at the Miss Universe pageant — to around 300 students from Holy Trinity School Division, Peacock Collegiate, Central Collegiate, Mossbank, and Gull Lake.
The purpose of the conference was to impress upon the students how important student leadership is for them and for their peers, and to prompt ideas on how to get themselves involved in their school’s community.
Cheylynne Luch and Jenna Meili, from the Vanier SRC, are coming away from the conference feeling confident the students took home some ideas to build their leadership skills.
“I think they took away a lot of ways that they can make their community or school better,” said Luch. “I think that there was a lot of things that we showed them that [the SRC] does here, that are quite unique, so I think they can take a lot of that back to their school.”
“We're hoping that some of the opportunities maybe resonated with them, so then they could, for example, go to a conference or go travel with those leadership opportunities,” added Meili.
Both Luch and Meili saw some fresh ideas they want to bring to the student body in their school, before the end of the year, and they hope that the Vanier SRC will bring the conference back again next year.
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— Larissa Kurz (@larissagkurz) April 9, 2019
