The winners of the elected Student Council officers were announced on April 17. Students filmed campaign videos and were also allowed to hang posters around the building to promote their campaigns. Candidates had to also fill out a packet understanding their duties and commitments as student council officers.

Junior Desirae Leeson will be next school year’s Senior Executive president.

“As the executive president I will have the role of leading the student council meetings and help make our school environment better with school spirit and bringing our new events to our school,” Leeson said. “To campaign I had to brainstorm fun slogans that would catch people’s attention and make posters to hang up around the school.” Leeson is looking forward to bringing back the homecoming parade and many more fun activities next school year.

Officer positions are divided into two groups: Executive and Class.

“The class officers are responsible for specific duties related to their grade levels or specific events,” student council advisor Melanie Prince said. “For example, the senior class officers are responsible for coordinating all of the senior and graduation activities including the senior breakfast, senior video, and senior t-shirt. Executive officers are responsible for the overall operation of student council and its members. The executive council members run our weekly meetings and handle the day to day organization of StuCo events.”

Students casted their votes through a Google form.

“I like how simple it is to just click the link and be able to vote for your respective grade level,” sophomore McKenna Still said. “However, I feel like some people that ran didn’t have as big of a chance of winning because a lot of the time, the winners are just whoever is most popular and not necessarily who deserved it more.”

Some students are already planning great ideas for next school year. Freshman Amos Mwaura said, “My main responsibilities as sophomore class president are planning and organizing a third dance for our school. A third dance is a great idea as the gap between homecoming and prom is too long and a majority of underclassmen are not allowed to go to prom.”

There is controversy over whether or not students were elected based on merit or popularity. “I think the elections were silly since most officers were running unopposed,” junior Courtney Parker said. “Those that had two people running were popularity contests. I think that sometimes the wrong person can be elected because of this. Nonetheless, I am sure that whoever’s in charge will input new ideas for our school.”

Mwaura and others are looking forward to next school year and what’s in store for their council. “I’m extremely excited for Student Council next year,” Mwaura said. “I love to lead, and intend to make next school year one to remember. I can’t wait to see the ideas that our council generates next year and I’m blessed to serve as sophomore class president.”

Current members encourage other students to join Student Council.

“Student Council is bucket loads of fun, and if you’re interested in being a part of it, talk to Mrs. Prince in the guidance office,” sophomore Kamryn Downing said. “We’d love to have new members.”

Senior Officers:
Treasurer:  Avery Prine
Secretary:  Samantha Bennett
Vice Pres.:  Vance Howerton
Pres:  Ashlyn Sutton

Junior Officers:
Treasurer:  Brynn Badders
Secretary:  Darnell Watts
Vice Pres.:  Emily Azpell
Pres:  Kamryn Downing

Sophomore Officers:
Pres:  Amos Mwuara
Officers:  Joanie Bell, Hannah Berry, Teegan Saunders.  (These 3 were the runners up for the President election.  No one ran for the other three positions, so these girls will just have the title of “Sophomore Class Officer” versus a specific office title.

Executive Officers:
Treasurer:  Orrin Donaldson
Secretary:  Liz Devanny
Vice Pres.:  Soliana Kahassai
Pres:  Desirae Leeson