Executive Council Dinner

All of the executive council members and their parents were invited over to the Student Body President's house tonight for a nice catered dinner and humorous awards. It was nice! Rick and I commented on how we really didn't know most of these kids! Jaiden got the award, "Most likely to sing the national anthem at next year's opening assembly." It was fitting because Jaiden sang the national anthem SO many times at school events!! Jaiden enjoyed being on the executive council this past year, although it was A LOT of work!! 

SUU Presidential Ambassador Weekend

Jaiden applied to be an Ambassador for SUU next year. There were several rounds in this process and lots of people were cut in each round. Jaiden made it through all of the rounds, but we won't find out for a few more weeks if she was chosen to be an ambassador. Part of me hopes she is chosen because it would be a great way to get involved with the university and meet people and it would also provide some more scholarship money -- and she would do an amazing job! (And of course it looks great on a resume!) But on the other hand, part of me will be a bit relieved if she doesn't get chosen because she is already so busy. Plus she already has a full tuition scholarship and could probably earn more money at a part time job than from this. Either way I am sure she will still be involved and busy at college. So we will just see how it goes! 

Anyway, the application process consisted of several rounds. Round one included a registration form -- filling out a questionnaire and answering a bunch of questions and turning in transcripts and things like that. Round two involved making a video. She made the entire video on her phone. I couldn't possibly do that. She was sick during part of it (you can hear it in her voice when she is holding the brush as a microphone.)  The video is really cute, except she filmed herself in front of our outside faded, paint peeling French doors during part of it and in the back yard with our old broken door in the background. I wanted her to redo those parts because it looks like we live in the skids, but she said she didn't have anyone to film her in the first place and was sick and didn't want to redo it. Oh well, regardless of the background she still made it to the next round. 

 

The next round included a twenty minute interview over zoom (which was scheduled during school which we thought was weird. I actually had to check her out of school so that she could come home and do the interview!) The interview was with a panel of three people (the head guy and two other ambassadors). She had to teach a ten minute presentation on "why you should come visit our home town" and then answer a bunch of interview questions. She made a power point for the presentation which she shared over zoom. It included things like Tuacahn, Swiss Days, State and National Parks, statistics on low crime rates and so forth. She felt like she did pretty well on the interview.  

Round three included a weekend of interviews, presentations, team building exercises and forth at SUU. They started off with over 200 applications and only 58 were invited to the President's Ambassador Weekend and only 20-25 will be picked to be ambassadors. She should find out within the next month or so! Here is Jaiden's write up about the weekend (I added capital letters to the beginnings of the sentences and to the acronym SUU because this generation doesn't seem to capitalize anything and it kind of drives me crazy, ha ha!) 

Jaiden: I had my SUU ambassador weekend thing!! It was super fun but also EXHAUSTING!! We first had to do interviews, and then we were put into groups and had to make skits that were like an SUU commercial, and then we were put into other groups and had to create a 10–12-minute presentation for convince people to go to SUU... it was kinda hard because we weren't allowed to have like slides or anything.... but after that we got to go to the SUU gymnastics meet and it was super super fun!! And then we got to go do open rec at the gym and then we did a 10-minute escape room that my group totally failed hahaha! The next day we had to perform our skits and our presentations! Basically, in the presentation they gave us a demographic like 30 minutes before so ours was a general science class of juniors and seniors from California, so we had to gear it towards that. Our presentation was only 6 minutes *oops* but we did have a smaller group hahaha and then after they asked us tons of questions lol.  I have no idea if I'm going to make it or not because they are definitely going to cut the group who was up there in HALF or even maybe more! Crazy! But we'll see how it goes haha.

Update as of April 4, 2022: 

So Jaiden found out that she didn't make it in as an ambassador. She was disappointed, but at the same time it might be a blessing in disguise. She has been so overly busy and stressed this year and this  would just add more to her busy schedule. It might be better if she started out her first year of college without jumping right back into a million activities and responsibilities. Anyway, here is the email: 

Hello,

Unfortunately, you were not selected this year to be offered a position as a Presidential Ambassador at SUU. 

As we discussed at the weekend there are a lot of factors that go into choosing an ambassador team, some involve a particular skill set, others involve things that might be out of your control that we as a recruitment and admissions team have to consider (ie Where people are from, our current gender ratio, our out of state representation vs in-state, etc.). 

We met some amazing candidates at the weekend and had some diverse evaluation processes that we feel offered great insight. We appreciate your time and commitment to making a thoughtful experience, but unfortunately, we have decided to move forward in a different direction.

Although you were not selected for this particular position there are a LOT of other positions at SUU that you could be a GREAT fit for. I’ve taken the initiative and sent your name to our Student Involvement and Leadership (STIL) Center. 

The STIL center is a triage for incoming and current students to help you find a place at SUU, train up on necessary skills for a particular position, and give you meaningful exposure to a variety of positions and organizations throughout your time here at SUU. 

Don’t let this setback keep you from accomplishing amazing things here at SUU. We encourage you to work with Heather and get involved with the STIL center. 

Thanks again and we look forward to seeing you on campus next year!

With Gratitude,

SUU Recruitment and Admissions Staff

Exec Pictures

 Jaiden is on Exec Council and today they got their pictures taken at Ivins's Reservoir. She said that it was very windy, but they still turned out cute!!  

Jaiden's Exec Sweater

Jaiden got her Exec Sweater! She loves it! I hope so, since our cost was for it was over $230.00. She thinks the school subsidized some of it too. 

Jaiden Executive Council Leadership Conference

Jaiden had a great time at her Executive Council Leadership Conference this week! This was her third time attending this conference. It was held at Dixie State University and included student government kids from schools all across the state. The conference included training, workshops, team building activities, games, food and more. They also went to see a show a Tuacahn as part of the Conference. They even learned how to break boards with a Karate chop (thus the picture below!) 

Jaiden Jensen and Addie Ashton at the black light dance! 

Jaiden Exec Council

Jaiden is the new ACTIVITIES REP for the Snow Canyon High School Executive Council for 2021-2022! Congratulations, Jaiden!! 

Campaign Video. If you aren't really familiar with the TV show, The Office, (like me, ha ha) then you won't really get the humor in this video. But I still thought it was pretty cute! 

Congratulations, Jaiden!

Jaiden decided to run for Junior Class Officer for Activities and Assemblies and the results were announced tonight. She won!! Congratulations, Jaiden!! Click HERE to see her student council VIDEO!

2020-2021 Student Body and Class Officers

Student Body Officers

President: Jacob Moody
Assemblies:Ethan Bunting
Activities: Gavin Gough
Women’s Rep: Oliva Stuart
Men’s Rep: Tyler Awerkamp
Publicity: Julia Call
Secretary/Hist:  Heidi Wakefield
Artist: Sophie Hafen
Tech Specialist: Derek Morgan
Cheer Rep: TBD

Senior Class
President: Charley Jensen
Secretary: Jocelyn Ostler
Publicity: Tavie Landis
Men’s Rep: Max Barnett
Women’s Rep: Rebekah Desmond
Activities/Assem: Sean Pifferi

Junior Class
President: Erin Gunn
Secretary: Shailynn Lamb
Publicity: Emma Miller
Men’s Rep: Isaac Anderson
Women’s Rep: Ruth Sumner
Activities/Assem: Jaiden Jensen

Sophomore Class
President: Gwyneth Lamoreaux
Secretary: Tanner Wakefield
Publicity: Brinkley DeMille
Men’s Rep: Bryce Christiansen
Women’s Rep: Breckyn Johnson
Activities/Assem: Brynley Kint

SCMS Warrior Honor Evening

This morning I had a couple of interpreting jobs and then took a nap!  I picked up the kids from school and then Jenna had a fun "Un-birthday" party for Activity Days which included swimming at Sister Phillip's house. I wish I had known that it was her leader's actual birthday today so I could have sent Jenna with a gift for her!

I brought Jaiden and her friend to dance at 4:45 and then stayed at the studio and waited for her since Jaiden had to leave early for the Snow Canyon Middle School's Award's Night. Jaiden and Janelle were supposed to be at the school early in order to greet people and pass out programs. Jaiden and Janelle both received awards for achieving a 4.0 all year long and Janelle also received an award (like last year) for perfect attendance! Jaiden and Emily helped to pass out cookies afterwards as part of their Student Council responsibilities.

I was also really proud of my Miamaids tonight! Each department gave out a special award -- typically one to an eight grader and one to a ninth grader. Four of those awards came from my Miamaid class! Layla Purdy received the award for Language Arts (9th grade) and Jaymii Bonadurer received the award for Language Arts (8th grade). Gracie Newby received the Fine Arts award and Ruby Bolton received the award for Science! Way to go girls!!

Jaiden's Fifth Grade Graduation and Program

Jaiden had her Fifth Grade Graduation and Patriotic Program today.  She sang a duet along with another girl and they sounded great!  This is the fifth time I have seen this program (two more to go) and I love it every time!  Jaiden also received the "Give Me Liberty" award!  Here is Jaiden with her best friend, Emily -- they were excited to be able to serve together on the Student Council this year on the Library Committee!