This past Thursday, over 250 middle school student leaders from 14 Howard County schools came together to hone their leadership skills and begin to imagine how they can improve their schools and communities. Five years ago, we began the Youth Empowerment Summit with only 4 schools and less than 100 students who participated. I am so happy to see how this program has expanded even though the funding for the program has been severely cut.
At this year's YES, I had the privilege of helping to warm-up the students by doing a group energizer called the Boom-Bang Orchestra and introducing Howard County Executive Ken Ulman. In fact, Mr. Ulman helped to conduct the Boom-Bang Orchestra. He is such a good sport and he gave a very good speech helping to set the tone for the day.
I want to thank my wife for helping to start the first summit and Kelli Brandt for inviting me to participate again this year. After talking to several of my WLMS students who attended, the day was a huge success and they are motivated to help improve our school in the coming months.
As you know, providing middle school students with the skills necessary to identify and solve real-life problems is a very important task. It helps to focus their abundant energy in a positive direction. In addition, leadership skills are useful life skills that can be adapted to most situations our students will face in the future.
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