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Student
Leadership Conference The Annual Student
Leadership Conference was held on Thursday, March 10th at Ruffner Hall
on The University of Virginia campus. Teams of 208 student leaders and
30 teacher advisors from twenty different high schools (including two
high schools which had never before participated) registered for the
conference, which is free of charge for VSUP member schools. Although
heavy rains closed two schools (so those teams were not able to attend)
and forced two other schools to leave the conference early, the teachers
and students who braved the weather were overwhelming pleased with the
opportunity to come together to work on improving their schools and
their own individual skills as leaders. After an opening keynote address
by Dr. Jerry Teplitz, a motivational speaker who has given over 1700
presentations to over one million people on Brain Performance Optimization,
students spent the rest of the day in small group discussions focused
on the issues that they have identified as important in their schools.
Conference attendees were impressed by the evidence they received from
Dr. Teplitz on the power of positive thinking, but their favorite part
of the day was the chance to share ideas and learn from other students
from all across Central Virginia. |
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