Story by Carly Chia
“Calling all eighth graders wanting to become a leader for your class!”
That’s what students heard on the morning announcements during this last month of school. It’s a special call made for all eighth graders wanting to help lead their class during freshman year at Carmel High School.
It’s called the CHS Senate.
Senate is a student congress at CHS that helps organize events for the student body. Eighth graders can run for Senate near the end of the year. During this campaign, they put up posters to let the students know to vote for them.
They are allowed to put posters up in the eighth grade hallways, main halls, or cafeteria.
To be qualified for Senate, students need to be enrolled in Carmel High School. Second, students need to be a member of the class 2018. Third, students must currently be passing all four core subjects and have passed all four core subjects in the previous quarter.
Now, you may be wondering what CHS Senate is and what they do.
“Senate helps organize all the homecoming events, and they also help with Dance Marathon,” Lauren Alexander said.
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| Mrs. Lori Harmas introduces the Senate candidates. |
Alexander is not alone. Other candidates running for office include Emily Worrell, Ellie Clark, Crystal Xue, Ruchal Desai and Griffin Gonzalez.
The Senators also work on organizing events with other Senators from other grades and the Student Body President of CHS.
Senate is a group that benefits the Student Body, but it also benefits the Senators that are a part of Senate.
Desai said it benefits her by “learning about being more confident and being a better leader.”
Alexander said, “Being a part of Senate is being in a select group of people that can lead your classmates to greatness.”
Some of these Senator candidates already have a course of action of what they’re going to do if they get elected as Senators.
“I hope to help Freshman students find their Greatness because Clay Trojans’ greatness doesn’t end this year. Our Greatness will come with us our whole life,” Alexander said.
Only eighth graders get to vote for their class leaders for freshman year. They listened to speeches this morning during first period and cast their votes.
The winners were Gonzalez and Xue.
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| Ellie Clark, eighth grade, speaks. |
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| Emily Worrell, eighth grade, speaks. |
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| Crystal Xue, eighth grade, speaks. |