By Anna Crichton
Nearing the end of their junior year, students begin the hunt for scholarships to college. Each scholarship looks for certain things in its applicants, and in this case, the Kettering Rotary Youth Leadership Award was looking for Fatima Boumahchad’s impressive leadership skills.
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| Fatima Boumahchad is in her junior year at the Dayton Regional STEM School. |
Fatima is currently an 11th
grader at DRSS, and has been attending the school since the 9th
grade. Ever since then, she has exhibited wonderful leadership skills. She is
an active member of NHS, Keyclub, Student Government, and various other school
organizations. You can always find her helping out a student or a teacher, and
just being an overall positive person. So it comes as no surprise that she was
nominated by teachers of the Dayton Regional STEM School for the Kettering Rotary Youth
Leadership Award.
The Rotary Youth Leadership is
a scholarship that gives students the chance to go to a camp between April 15th
and April 17th. At this camp, students are given the chance to meet
other like-minded people from various schools, discuss ethical and social
issues of today, as well as participate in a variety of activities focused
directly on leadership. Students attending this camp will
focus on becoming better leaders to their peers. They will learn skills such
as fundamentals of leadership, ethics of positive leadership, qualities of a "servant leader," importance
of communication skills in effective leadership, conflict management and
problem solving, and elements of community and global citizenship. At
the end of the camp, students will attend a luncheon and be awarded a certain
amount of scholarship money to help them further pursue their dreams of
college.
This is an amazing opportunity
for Fatima, as it will expand her leadership skills and give her a step closer
to getting into the college that she wants. When asked about what she was most
excited about in regard to receiving this amazing opportunity, she said “I
really do enjoy being a leader and I feel like this opportunity will help me
learn more skills that a leader should possess.” Congratulations to Fatima for
receiving this amazing award.
