For the second year in a row, two members of the Woodland Regional Student Council (WRSC) decided they wanted to host an idea forum in the Woodland media center. Senior, Makenzie White and Sophomore, Nicole Buckley decided to invite a number of different student councils from across the state to come to Woodland to share their ideas on Thursday, May 25th.
Last year the student council hosted the idea forum and White and Buckley felt it was such an insightful experience last year they wanted to do it again this year.
“The purpose of this event is to bring together student councils from across the sate and allow an opportunity for students and advisors to talk about their programs and experiences,” said White. “The ultimate goal is to learn new ways or ideas [other student councils] can take back to their schools.”
Although, the WRSC invited twenty-eight schools and were hoping for a big turn out only three of these schools were able to attend. The student councils from Wethersfield High School, Pomperaug High School, and Fairfield Prep were those who attended.
Through the coming together of these three high schools, along with Woodland’s student council members a lot of information about how each organization is run was shared. Some of the things that the WRSC brought to the forum were their ideas of to utilize parliamentary procedure and a constitution.
“In respects to the [parliamentary procedure and our constitution] we had a lot to share with the other schools,” said White.
Overall the event went very well. All of the schools were able to benefit from the experience and it helped to bring a new perspective to all of the student councils. Each of the schools were able to take information and are hoping that they will be able to utilize it in order to improve their student councils.
Although, this was only the second year that the WRSC hosted an idea forum it was so successful that they plan to continue it in the future. As of right now the idea forum will be hosted again next year.
“I ran the idea forum this year with the help of Nicole Buckley,” said White. “Next year she is planning to run the event by herself.”
Not only did White feel the event was successful, but she also learned a lot from running the event.
“This event gave me a lot of knowledge and experience in running an event as this was the first even I ran beginning to end,” said White. “I learned a lot about logistically running an event and I found it be an incredibly rewarding experience.”
