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Yankton students highlight community service, leadership activities at board meeting
Summary
Middle- and high-school students reported fundraising, leadership training and a May 7 blood drive; student council members described an elementary leadership day and community-service projects including about 200 cards for hospital patients.
At its regular meeting, the Yankton School District 63-3 board heard reports from middle- and high-school staff and student council members about recent student-led activities and upcoming events.
Mr. Becker, a middle-school staff member, said the school’s March coin drive raised $2,380, $50 more than last year, and described a seventh- and eighth-grade dance that used the school resource officer as a DJ. He also said fifth-grade tours, CampMed presentations for seventh graders and eighth-grade visits to Yankton High School are scheduled for May 1.
High school student-council members Byron Gunes, Nora Kraske and Aria Hodeleti described a leadership day the council organized for elementary students. Hodeleti said the council ran stations that taught leadership skills, made bracelets with leadership-themed words and organized a community-service project that produced about 200 cards for patients at the local hospital.
Byron Gunes, the student body president, said student council is focusing on increasing participation and connecting students with teachers. He told the board the state student-council convention was canceled this year because of weather; the council redirected its efforts locally.
Students also said they are helping organize a blood drive on May 7 aimed primarily at 16-year-old students (the minimum age cited by presenters) and staff volunteers. The council described fundraising methods — including a Valentine’s Day sale of suckers that raised roughly $200 and proceeds from a winter formal — that support student-council activities.
Miss Alonzo, the student-council advisor, and board members praised the students’ leadership and outreach efforts.
Board meeting minutes show the student reports were given as part of the “good news and student achievement” agenda item; no formal board action was taken on the student presentations.
