HOBY Student Selected At SHS to Represent Seward at State’s 2017 Seminar this Summer
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Each student was asked to write about their leadership opportunities and ways they have demonstrated service to others. Along with the written application, each student was personally interviewed by the selection panel. The judges for the award were John Owens, Tina Schmieding Marroquin and Chuck Matzke, representing various service organizations in Seward.
The alternate finalists are invited to the SHS Sophomore Pilgrimage at the State Capitol in Lincoln in April of 2017, sponsored by SHS teacher Rich Eber.
The selected honoree from Seward will represent the high school in a week-end long youth leadership seminar involving one sophomore graduate from almost every high school in Nebraska. The event is free for the student and funded locally. Each delegate is to return to their high school and offer new leadership skills, achieved at the HOBY seminar. Seward High has participated in the HOBY leadership program since HOBY’s inception in Nebraska.
Students and considered HOBY finalist that competed for the award included Garrett Kuss, Ryan Wall, Rannon Lyons, Kiernan Baker, Bailey Mooney, Cayden Moore and Gracie Sullivan.
The program is funded and underwritten by the School District of Seward High Ability Learner Program, Seward High School, and locally by the area service clubs through their national organizations including the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club, GFWC Seward Junior Women’s Club, Seward Rotary Club, Seward Kiwanis Club and the Seward Optimist Club. Clark Kolterman and Rachelle Hindrichs served as the local representative co-chair for the selection process.