Junior high student council showcases projects, campus service at board meeting
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Students and staff from Norfolk Junior High presented student-council activities including dances, landscaping and service projects to the Board of Education.
Norfolk Junior High student council members and their advisors presented the group’s projects and leadership work to the Board of Education.
Beau Verghets, junior-high principal, introduced Austin Bruning, an eighth-grade social studies teacher and student-council adviser, who said the council has about 30 members and meets weekly to plan projects that support students, staff and the wider community.
Students described recent activities: dress-up days and games for pep rallies and homecoming, an entry-fee dance that funds other projects, a multi-year landscaping project near the Doughboy statue, a Red Ribbon Week campaign with a pledge chain and a door-decorating contest, and a Veterans Day program that included student introductions and community participation.
"Our student council is a dedicated group of volunteers within Norfolk Junior High working collaboratively to foster student expression and support student affairs and activities," Bruning said, summarizing the council’s mission. Student speakers added that student council helps them develop leadership skills, make friends and plan events that benefit the school.
The board thanked the students for their presentation and for developing leadership experience that the district said can feed into future student leadership and civic engagement opportunities.
