The Adventures of Miss Oakland County: 24th Annual Student Leadership Conference

This weekend I've been invited to be a Conference Advisor and a guest speaker at the 24th Annual Student Leadership Conference in Bellaire, MI. There are nine high schools representing their own chapters of Students Leading Students. All of these students are dedicated to promoting healthy, positive lifestyles among their peers.

DAY ONE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH

Today we had some meetings and got to know each other. I'm so excited for the conference! My main objective as a CA is maintaining safety of the students and integrity of the conference.

With the members of the Student Advisory Board.

DAY TWO

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

Today was a fast-paced day filled with many interesting speakers, student presentations, and more! One speaker was Mike Skupin, who was on Survivor Australia. He had a great motivational presentation--then later in the day, he organized a bug/fish/animal cartilage eating contest.

Happy attacked Matt Marshmellow and myself...we weren't SLS inspirizzled enough!

Happy, the SLS mascot.

DAY THREE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH

Today was also filled with guest speakers and activities. At night, there was a dinner where all of the advisors were honored, awards were presented and we listened to a few guest speakers. I had the honor of being one of those speakers. I really enjoyed addressing this group of high school students about my platform, Empowering Youth--which is the very thing this group is dedicated to doing! I had a great time at the conference this weekend--thank you to everyone at SLS for everything you do to encourage youth leadership!